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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I have no idea what happens in this book
It would appear there is, after all, a Pratchett book i dont like. Fancy that.
This one isnt bad, far from it, but I really didnt like the pacing, and for such a short book it was really quite slow. Also the whole scheme Pratchett usually has going, where characters are caricatures but not really and you can dig a bit deeper and they're still not totally like real persons but realer than you initially thought ? Yeah, they dont do that, here. They're all very first degree.
It had interesting themes, and the concept was interesting, but all in all it didnt click for me.
This one isnt bad, far from it, but I really didnt like the pacing, and for such a short book it was really quite slow. Also the whole scheme Pratchett usually has going, where characters are caricatures but not really and you can dig a bit deeper and they're still not totally like real persons but realer than you initially thought ? Yeah, they dont do that, here. They're all very first degree.
It had interesting themes, and the concept was interesting, but all in all it didnt click for me.
Despite being a massive Pratchett fan, I've never read the Johnny Maxwell books. I started this with my 10 year old but he wasn't feeling it so we bailed and I finished it myself. I liked it a lot though it's relatively dated now (even though it's been updated once). Fine Pratchett humour, some nice character work and a clear moral stance, it was a nice retro experience and I'm keen to read the next two books.
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A boy is playing a video game where you shoot aliens when all of the sudden a message pops up, "We surrender." He doesn't know what to make of it until the aliens keep talking to him. The thing is, he can only "enter" their world is his dreams- but at least that means he has control
Love the concept that even games are real, that when we are shooting characters that may actually be dying in their own universe for real. Typical Terry Pratchett style and wit but I'd didn't enjoy this and much as some of his other books
It’s not as witty or wise as the Discworld books I’ve read (which aren’t that many, actually), but it was still good. It’s set in the early 90s during the time of the first Gulf War and the other President Bush, when computers were first becoming fairly normal and mainstream but before the advent of the World Wide Web. Johnny and his friends like to play computer games, the Space Invader, Galaga type where you fly a space ship and shoot up an alien fleet. The twist is that one of the alien fleets contacts Johnny to surrender because they don’t all want to die. Instead of mindless blips on the screen, they suddenly become real, intelligent lives and present him with a new moral quandary. I thought it was a lot of fun to get the alien perspective, that humans are just bloodthirsty killers who want to destroy them and aren’t willing to negotiate. They encounter the husks of Space Invader ships and other races the human gamers have wiped out in previous generations of games. I don’t know if I liked it enough to read the other two books in the series, but I enjoyed it and recommend giving it a try.