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Pros & Cons
Pros
It's a little absurdist and a touch bizarro. The characters are wonderfully fleshed out. It has the same type of crazy and hillarious situations as the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by douglas adams.
Heinlein is the book that got me started in sci-fi adventures. It's even good sci-fi, with alien ships and tech and plausible alien creatures, so even if you were totally humor impaired you could enjoy the sci-fi bits.
Cons
Neither tom nor any of the characters who subsequently find out about the aliens are as freaked out as they should be. It's a clever idea, but as with fuzzy nation, it doesn't ever feel like it delivers on the idea at its heart.
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Quality
The characters are pretty well defined and you do get somewhat emotionally engaged with the protagonist
As a result of the meeting tom becomes the agent to the yherajk a group of friendly space aliens who want to make contact with ... Read More
So he was surprised to be asked told to meet with the agency’s head carl lupo
I started with the audio book with wil wheaton which is excellent but scalzi audio books rarely work for my brain so i had to s... Read More
Competitiveness
Two things that seem to have nothing in common but scalzi explains it like it is a complete nobrainer
Tom a stilljunior agent at the lupo agency had a raft of hasbeen and wannabe clients the norm for a junior agent plus one who ... Read More
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- This product had a total of 1,763 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 7 2023.
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An alien race of goopeople who can access and assimilate the consciousness of other beings with proper consent of course seeks the help of a hollywood agent to introduce this new peaceful race to the rest of the world
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This is ultimately accomplished when an alien assumes the body of a comatose starlet and wins the best actress oscar for her performance as a 50 year old jewish civil rights activist
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Sure this is an alien first contact book
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Its a mismatched buddies road comedy
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Even the minor characters get a few good lines
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This was scalzis first experimental attempt at writing a book which should pretty much discourage every other fledgling author out there
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I picked it up as a kindle freebie when scalzi tossed it out to see if anyone would be interested
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As i work me way through all things scalzi i realized i had never read his first written novel
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