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Bob Moore: No Hero
by Tom Andry
There is an afterward by the author in this book that I was glad was there-I appreciate his honesty and what he's trying to do-he talks about writing (and never finishing) a novel/novella before and how the motivation of ease to self-publish online got him to finish this one. So, it's kind of nice to support the small time guy (Lacey, how easy is to to e-publish books? You should do it, maybe, try it on one or two of your novels or novella's-and I could make a cover for it! So could Angela (she's going to school to be a graphic designer, after all). Where was I? I think I found this at
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/?s=bob+moore
I loaded it because I liked the cover, and of course, I like comic books, so, I'm interested in super heroes and sci-fi stories. Andry talks about how his novella had gone through edits, and he also mentions some of the suggestions that were made to him that he didn't follow (I'm so glad he didn't in this case). The suggestion was to make the book longer by added in more unessential details/events at a certain part of the story-wrong! In fact, that's my biggest complaint about the book already! There's not enough cut out, and the first 40% of the novel is almost useless to any plot-it's hard to even know what the plot is, and that's not a plus for the mystery factor. This should've been a short story instead of novella, and it would've been a much tighter, more enjoyable read-because when the plot actually started taking shape, it was good, I wanted to keep reading-because by that time the details did matter-but I already wasted a lot of time (and created a lot of negative feelings for the book) before I got there. In my opinion all his "normal life routine" should've been way condensed and the story should have basically started with the Doc Arts case early on in the story, not almost halfway through. If the last 40% hadn't happened, this book would've gotten a 2 star or lower rating. If the first 40% of the book hadn't happened, it might have been bumped up in stars, who knows.
The writing wasn't bad, but did seem to have a flair of male chauvinism woven into to (I do understand that super hero stories typically lend themselves to that from the sexy art, etc. of comics). I just felt there was too much gratuitous focus on sexy female characters (and, of course, a non-serious lesbian affair because a sexy woman couldn't actually be gay-just having some fun-ack-like I said earlier, these whole scenes were not needed for the plot and should not have been included in the final edit).
But, as a short story, this could be a great Twilight Zone type, and I did like the character of Doc Arts (even though his name sounds so much like Doc Oc-was that a shout out to Spiderman? Not sure) and his daughter as well-it reminded me of the "Devils and Gods" story in Tori Amos Comic Book Tattoo-even if it didn't have a whole ton in common-the feel was the same.
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/?s=bob+moore
I loaded it because I liked the cover, and of course, I like comic books, so, I'm interested in super heroes and sci-fi stories. Andry talks about how his novella had gone through edits, and he also mentions some of the suggestions that were made to him that he didn't follow (I'm so glad he didn't in this case). The suggestion was to make the book longer by added in more unessential details/events at a certain part of the story-wrong! In fact, that's my biggest complaint about the book already! There's not enough cut out, and the first 40% of the novel is almost useless to any plot-it's hard to even know what the plot is, and that's not a plus for the mystery factor. This should've been a short story instead of novella, and it would've been a much tighter, more enjoyable read-because when the plot actually started taking shape, it was good, I wanted to keep reading-because by that time the details did matter-but I already wasted a lot of time (and created a lot of negative feelings for the book) before I got there. In my opinion all his "normal life routine" should've been way condensed and the story should have basically started with the Doc Arts case early on in the story, not almost halfway through. If the last 40% hadn't happened, this book would've gotten a 2 star or lower rating. If the first 40% of the book hadn't happened, it might have been bumped up in stars, who knows.
The writing wasn't bad, but did seem to have a flair of male chauvinism woven into to (I do understand that super hero stories typically lend themselves to that from the sexy art, etc. of comics). I just felt there was too much gratuitous focus on sexy female characters (and, of course, a non-serious lesbian affair because a sexy woman couldn't actually be gay-just having some fun-ack-like I said earlier, these whole scenes were not needed for the plot and should not have been included in the final edit).
But, as a short story, this could be a great Twilight Zone type, and I did like the character of Doc Arts (even though his name sounds so much like Doc Oc-was that a shout out to Spiderman? Not sure) and his daughter as well-it reminded me of the "Devils and Gods" story in Tori Amos Comic Book Tattoo-even if it didn't have a whole ton in common-the feel was the same.