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Great fun, February 12, 2009
This review is from: Captain Freedom: A Superhero's Quest for Truth, Justice, and the Celebrity He So Richly Deserves (Paperback)
I laughed until i fell off my chair. Then i got up, read some more and fell over again.
Non stop fun. A constant stream of whit fired at you from beginning to end.
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This book should be awesome., April 21, 2010
This review is from: Captain Freedom: A Superhero's Quest for Truth, Justice, and the Celebrity He So Richly Deserves (Paperback)
Yes. This book SHOULD be awesome.
The premise is great. The title is funny. Christopher Moore wrote a great review of the book, which is quoted on the cover. And yeah, even the cover is cool. This book has absolutely no right to suck.
But I have to hand it to writer G. Xavier Robillard. Both for the pretentious name and for taking all that potential greatness and turning it into 255 pages of kinetic suck. The book is bad in almost every way imaginable. It's not funny. It's boring. The prose just doesn't flow and the sentences are awkwardly structured. There is not an ounce of substance to the character. What you see is what you get. Captain Freedom is pompous and dumb. Everything he does, every joke in the book, every sentence in this beyond awful novel is crafted to remind you that he's pompous and dumb. There is literally nothing else.
The pompous and dumb superhero can be funny, sure. Joss Whedon did it wonderfully in
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Captain Hammer was funny because of the way he interacted with other characters (who we cared about). His dialogue was laugh out loud funny. He was a parody that worked because he showed us different sides of other characters through his own shallowness. That story engaged on many levels. So many stories put their own twist on the pompous superhero archetype, but I'm not sure if I've ever seen one that aims so low, that so utterly fails the way that "Captain Freedom" does.
This is the first book I've read in a long time that I couldn't finish. I just couldn't muscle through the thing. And you know what? I saved an hour or so of my life that would be better put toward reading something worth my time. I think you should do the same. Because you know what? I like reading a book that doesn't make me want to take out a red pen, mark up the novel, and mail it to the author with a note attached ("THIS is not how you structure a sentence, G. Xavier Pretentiousname). I like laughing. It makes me happy. It makes life better.
If you like laughing, look elsewhere. Because this book? Not so much with the funny.
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yawn, March 31, 2010
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So it's a decent premise, and it starts off well enough but then it just falls into a long boring rut where the author tries so desperately to be hip and funny. Captain Freedom just plods on and on and on not really going anywhere at all and you find yourself simply not caring anymore. Ah well.
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