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shepgreg 's review for:
We Are Legion
by Dennis E. Taylor
A human being turned into a Von Neumann probe is a great concept. That alone gets it the star.
It's a terrible book though. As a concept utterly wasted and barely explored at all. And for a book series labelled as comedy it's series of books conspicuously absent of comedy.
He takes such a brilliant idea and actually does so little with it that it is hard to believe he didn't actively suppress some of the natural directions and questions of philosophy to make the book less interesting.
Taylor is isn't an awful writer in the realms of the worst of the self published trash. And he's not even Earnest Cline awful, although this book is very clearly and cynically written in the shadow of Ready Player One and aiming for the same audience. He's able to write coherent bare bones competent prose. But what he decides to write with that is just awful. Overall it ends up as a boring cliched scifi story with almost no personality that isn't actively annoying.
He can't write character or anything funny. I've never known a book to describe characters laughing so much. That doesn't make something funny.
The main character and his clones are just boneheads. Deeply unlikable, making tired mainstream nerd pop culture reference after tired mainstream nerd pop culture reference. They are the sort of tedious know it all bollock who writes long 'well actually' posts on reddit. The first chapter is about the main character going to sci-fi convention. It's only on the 4th attempt that I got past that chapter and didn't tell the book to fuck off.
It annoyed me so much it has inspired me to write a novel that takes the basic premise and actually do something with it that isn't an utter waste.
It's a terrible book though. As a concept utterly wasted and barely explored at all. And for a book series labelled as comedy it's series of books conspicuously absent of comedy.
He takes such a brilliant idea and actually does so little with it that it is hard to believe he didn't actively suppress some of the natural directions and questions of philosophy to make the book less interesting.
Taylor is isn't an awful writer in the realms of the worst of the self published trash. And he's not even Earnest Cline awful, although this book is very clearly and cynically written in the shadow of Ready Player One and aiming for the same audience. He's able to write coherent bare bones competent prose. But what he decides to write with that is just awful. Overall it ends up as a boring cliched scifi story with almost no personality that isn't actively annoying.
He can't write character or anything funny. I've never known a book to describe characters laughing so much. That doesn't make something funny.
The main character and his clones are just boneheads. Deeply unlikable, making tired mainstream nerd pop culture reference after tired mainstream nerd pop culture reference. They are the sort of tedious know it all bollock who writes long 'well actually' posts on reddit. The first chapter is about the main character going to sci-fi convention. It's only on the 4th attempt that I got past that chapter and didn't tell the book to fuck off.
It annoyed me so much it has inspired me to write a novel that takes the basic premise and actually do something with it that isn't an utter waste.