Isaac Sherman

One Punch Man goes surprisingly dark

Revisado: 11-20-23

Starts off light with a lot of the same joke, but rapidly moves on to examine topics of depression, self introspection, and identity, maintaining humor throughout.

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Frenetic, hilarious and poignant.

Revisado: 06-03-20

This book was absolutely wonderful. It was surprising and illuminating and engaged all of my senses. The narrator is absolutely fantastic and adds volumes.

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All of these should be movies.

Revisado: 12-06-16

Fantastic and refreshing approach to science fiction. I would love to see these done as feature films, or perhaps episodes of black mirror. One story has already made it to the silver screen. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this book.

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Very informative, brief.

Revisado: 08-16-16

No wasted ink on these pages. They barely read with more continuity than a bullet list, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The details that are present are useful, and paint a disturbing picture of the man who would be president.

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Technically decent, but ugh.

Revisado: 08-07-16

Racist, sexist characters. Unfulfilling ending. Uncomfortable narration of Japanese characters. Doesn't understand the alternate history genre. Not as good as the show.
I'm willing to give it a pass on the racism, since that was part of the point of writing the book and it was written in the sixties, but there are some truly cringeworthy moments. It's a product of it's times. What I can't forgive is the terrible ending. The ending was more like a comma than a period. It didn't resolve anything, really, it leaves characters in varying degrees of danger and at dramatically different points in their arcs without a second glance. Even worse, the book seems to fail to recognize the purpose of alternate history. I can't say more without spoilers, but I mean that in the barest sense of the term, since there is almost nothing to spoil. The narration was bordering on outright racist, but after a while it grew on me. Give it a chance, or watch the show. The show is telling an almost totally different story, and I think, doing a better job building out the details of the world and the characters.
I watched the show first, and I only got this book to figure out what had happened in Europe and Africa, as it only hints in the show. The book gives more details, but only just. Dick outlines a few horrors but leaves the rest to the imagination.

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