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Only You Can Save Mankind
by Terry Pratchett
This is my first Terry Pratchett book .... I know I'm really behind but somehow even though I've had my eyes on his books for a long time, I never seemed to find the time to actually get down and read one. I don't know why I didn't start with Discworld. So, this one - Only You Can Save Mankind is the first book in the Johnny Maxwell series. Johnny is a schoolboy who regularly gets video games from one of his friends, who seems to have insane talent in cracking them.The aliens he had to fight in his latest video game turn out to be real and their captain asks him for help, believing he is the Chosen One, to assist them in leaving for their own part of the Galaxy and escape being completely wiped out by the other human players and so on and so on. In general it wasn't a bad book but nothing impressive in my opinion. I liked the wit and sarcasm supposedly typical for Pratchett and I'm hoping I would really like the Discworld series (apparently I'm among the last humans on the planet to yet read any part of it :P) and any other of his works.