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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Junior High School SF,
By A Customer
This review is from: A Very Strange Trip (Hardcover)
This book is at the top of my list of the worst SF I have read in the last 10 years. If you like really simple SF then maybe it is for you. This proves my theory that whenever you see "Story By Someone" in big letters and then in little letters you see "Novel by Someone Else" it is a waste of time. I'm mad at my self for buying it.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing: A Very Strange Trip,
By J. Naft (Cambridge, MA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Very Strange Trip (Hardcover)
This book was very disappointing to me. I've always been a big fan of Wolverton's StarWars books and I never knew he wrote other types of stories. With Wolverton's name and an awesome cover, I couldn't resist buying this one. And the inside flap summary sounded interesting enough.What I soon found out, though, was that that's ALL I had bought: a name and a cover. I think Wolverton did his best to salvage this story; after all, the plot flowed okay and was a fun, light read. I was through with this book in a single afternoon and it was easy enoguh to get through. However, I think Wolverton's talent as a writer could have better been spent on another Science Fiction piece of his own, not a rehashing of a rehashing of somebody else's ideas. The storyline (i.e. Hubbard's original idea) was fatally flawed. It lacks the one thing that every good Science Fiction flick needs: Credibility, a real idea expanded in a unique way. It seems as though Hubbard took some 10 year old Cold War sentiments and the time machine cliche, stuck them together in a blender, and then poured the words out on paper as Russian contraband weapons and mysterious time travel devices. I could go on for hundreds of words about this, so I'll just sum it up: the story was boring, unoriginal, and unrealistic. Maybe worth a library checkout if you're really into time travel stories, but overall I found it lacking in the elements of a good science fiction piece.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Very Disappointing book.,
By "pat2717" (Santa Fe) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Very Strange Trip (Hardcover)
I was excited to read this book because I enjoy time travel books and have always been impressed with L. Ron Hubbards writing. According to the introduction of the book, Hubbard wrote the story as a screenplay and then Dave Wolverton converted it into a book. Usually, things go the other way and people say "compared to the book, the movie stunk!" In this case, unfortunately, the book stunk. I read about 50 pages before I began wondering if it was a pre-teen book. I read 50 more and began wondering if I was wasting my time. I was certainly wasting my time. The characters are preposterously simple and unrealistic. The scenarios they encounter are never set up well and the characters reactions are out of a saturday morning cartoon. The protagonist is a near imbecile and he is by far the most intelligent character in the entire story. Save your time and money, this one misses the mark.
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