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[ladysprite]

Go read 'Soon I Will Be Invincible' by Austin Grossman.

I mean, like right now. Stop what you're doing (you're reading my journal. Seriously, this book is much more entertaining), get dressed, go to the bookstore this very minute, and buy it. Yes, it's hardcover. It's utterly, completely, and in every other way worth it.

Um, unless you're at work. This is really not a read-at-work book, unless you work in the kind of environment where you can kick your feet in the air and squeal with delight while waving the book around, and then run over to your coworkers and read passages to them in a dramatic voice.

I am in love. This book has made my world a better place. It's got superheroes and evil geniuses and amazing dialog and robot armies and aliens and I'm only on chapter four.

I need to go read some more, now....

Comments

[riolobo.livejournal.com]

Great book, isn't it? Doctor Impossible is my hero, even if he *IS* a villain!

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Already read it, as has Kes. She says the audiobook version is very well performed.

Austin Grossman and I both worked at the same game company, though our time there did not overlap.

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

It's next up on my Zooba list.

[jducoeur]

Oh, yes -- I "read" the audiobook, and it's a real delight. They did it properly, with two readers for the alternating chapters, and they're both quite good at doing their characters.

I'm currently in the middle of "From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain" -- what happens when you put (essentially) the JLA into a group-therapy session. Not nearly as deep as "Invincible" from a characterization POV, but funnier and with its own insights...