Crab McNasty

Not sci-fi. It's more like Space Fantasy/ Romance

Revisado: 12-08-22

This book should have a shirtless man on the cover. Anything else is misleading. If you are looking for Science Fiction, this is not the book for you. There is plenty of magical stuff and other than space ships and aliens, not much science. If the thing that gets your juices flowing is a sweaty shirtless telepathic alien who seems to always be working out and seems to enjoy giving foot rubs, you will love this book.

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Great book!

Revisado: 08-02-21

This book may not be 100% historically accurate but it has great characters, a plot that moves along nicely, and it's full of thought provoking ideas. As soon as I finished it, I immediately went back to the beginning and listened again. I only seem to do that with Laurence Dahners's excellent books! I highly recommend this book and all his other books as well.

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Interesting concept. Weak execution.

Revisado: 12-23-14

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

A better author could have made this concept into a truly epic book.

What was most disappointing about Scott James Magner’s story?

This book has very little action. The author endlessly focuses on the emotions of every character while neglecting clear explanations of what's actually happening. The world building was inadequate for giving the reader a good sense of why people behave the way they do.

What didn’t you like about Allyson Johnson’s performance?

I quickly grew to hate most of the female characters because of the narrator's high pitched vocalizations for them.

What character would you cut from Homefront?

I would cut EVERYTHING from Homefront except the basic concept. In particular, I thought the villain was the cheesiest and most cliché character I've ever encountered in a sci-fi book.

Any additional comments?

The only people who might enjoy this book are those who crave endless psychoanalysis of uninteresting, whiny characters and who aren't daunted by an incoherent plot.

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Thank god it's over!

Revisado: 01-27-13

This book is laughably bad! I can't believe Stephen King had anything positive to say about this book since it seemed like a such a weak emulation of his well established skills. I bought this one because of the positive reviews but I should have paid more attention to the negative reviews since in hindsight, I've realized I agree with almost everything they say. I have to assume the positive reviews were paid for by the author because they don't seem to be written for the same book I read.

Anyone thinking of buying this book should be aware of a few things.

First, the narration is terrible. If you've ever heard a high brow intellectual reading incomprehensible poetry in a dramatic and pained voice than you will recognize those same qualities in Brick's narration. If you are like me this affectation will annoy you through the whole book. The two ladies who read briefly do an excellant job and I wish they had been given more chapters.

Cronin's dreadful overuse of simile should have been laid to waste by any semi-intelligent editor, like an overzealous forest service employee on a rampage with his powerful chainsaw (that's the way the author might state such an assertion). If the exraneous similes and adjectives were edited from this book it could easily be 20% shorter.

Perhaps what annoyed me most about this book is the absurd social structure adopted by the small band of survivors that the author describes. Specifically, the fact that they sequester all children until the age of 8 to prevent them from learning about the nature of the world they live in. This might be the dumbest thing I've ever read in a work of fiction.

Also demonstrating a stunning level of stupidity is the author's description of the scavanging activities carried out by humanity's remnants. Almost a hundred years after complete social collapse they are going to malls to find sneakers, using batteries, getting old vehicles running, eating canned foods, using computers, driving on roads... I could go on and on. Rubber would be simply unusable after a fraction of that time in the dry American southwest and all the hoses, seals, and wire coverings would be dust. There would not be a usable battery anywhere. Roads would have long reverted to their natural state (not to mention train tracks. ugh!). If, like me, you are unable to suspend disbelief for such a goofy scenario then you will not enjoy this book.

I could write pages and pages about how bad this book is. If I didn't spend so many hours with my ipod every day I would have given up after part one. I guess I have strong feelings about this book because the first part wasn't too bad and then the rest of it was so awful, and required such a commitment of time. If you're just looking for a long book to buy with one of your credits and you don't care about quality, this might be a decent purchase for you. Otherwise, my recommendation is that you keep looking!

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