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Bob's Saucer Repair
by Jerry Boyd
The audio (a set of the first three books) was included in AudiblePlus. It was rated quite highly, so I figured I'd give it a try. KindleUnlimited had the text included for the series (it's like 40+ books!) and I grabbed the first one.
Um, what? I guess this is one of those, love it or hate it books/series, and unfortunately, I fell into the latter camp. I pushed through to the end of book 1, as it wasn't even 200 pages, but it was an ordeal! The narrator in the audiobook was good, in fact, I wouldn't have been able to stick with the book had I read it myself. There is no table of contents ... because there are no chapters (there are chapters, 15 of them, inserted spacing in the audiobook). It's almost all dialog. Without the narrator and his talent for distinctive voices, I wouldn't know who was saying what based on the text (it's just statement after statement after statement, no credit to who is speaking).
And ... this was so over the top ridiculous. I guess some people liked that. I am not one. The constant banter and bad jokes. SNAGFART. Caveman. Space Cadet. The "primitive" brought up by both parties over, and over, and over (ok, only 28 times in this short book). Just every. single. thing.
It really reminded me of [book:A Gift of Time|32622432] - which I almost gave up on because the female alien "Lovely Pebble" who doesn't look human but can alter her appearance/changes into a clown suit at one point. Also happens to crash on an older gentleman's property, and he also happens to have the knowledge, connections and ability to help out. The cartoonish silliness also was a bit reminiscent of [book:Dungeon Crawler Carl|56791389] ... which is another long series that others rave about, but I had to push through just to finish the first book and stopped there (although I liked it better than this one).
Some of the silly names, Major Rottum, Dingus ... Nikki is better than Benikkious Slongum. Snitz. I literally groaned aloud when one of the characters said "With friends like you, who needs an enema?" ... later on it's said "this bunch of idiots will snatch up any excuse for a joke, so even if they don't say anything, you can be sure there is evil afoot in their minds" ... and ANY excuse for a joke is right. Bad jokes. Worse than Dad jokes.
So here on Storygraph, while I did listen to the audio, I'm marking the ebook copy (which I also had and looked through, shaking my head even more) because the audio is only in a combo unit for the first three books. I'm not sure if I'm more concerned about the extra credit for pages that would give me ... or if I just want to be sure it is noted that I ONLY READ THE FIRST BOOK and did not continue on. For those who love it ... have fun and snagfart!
Um, what? I guess this is one of those, love it or hate it books/series, and unfortunately, I fell into the latter camp. I pushed through to the end of book 1, as it wasn't even 200 pages, but it was an ordeal! The narrator in the audiobook was good, in fact, I wouldn't have been able to stick with the book had I read it myself. There is no table of contents ... because there are no chapters (there are chapters, 15 of them, inserted spacing in the audiobook). It's almost all dialog. Without the narrator and his talent for distinctive voices, I wouldn't know who was saying what based on the text (it's just statement after statement after statement, no credit to who is speaking).
And ... this was so over the top ridiculous. I guess some people liked that. I am not one. The constant banter and bad jokes. SNAGFART. Caveman. Space Cadet. The "primitive" brought up by both parties over, and over, and over (ok, only 28 times in this short book). Just every. single. thing.
It really reminded me of [book:A Gift of Time|32622432] - which I almost gave up on because the female alien "Lovely Pebble" who doesn't look human but can alter her appearance/changes into a clown suit at one point. Also happens to crash on an older gentleman's property, and he also happens to have the knowledge, connections and ability to help out. The cartoonish silliness also was a bit reminiscent of [book:Dungeon Crawler Carl|56791389] ... which is another long series that others rave about, but I had to push through just to finish the first book and stopped there (although I liked it better than this one).
Some of the silly names, Major Rottum, Dingus ... Nikki is better than Benikkious Slongum. Snitz. I literally groaned aloud when one of the characters said "With friends like you, who needs an enema?" ... later on it's said "this bunch of idiots will snatch up any excuse for a joke, so even if they don't say anything, you can be sure there is evil afoot in their minds" ... and ANY excuse for a joke is right. Bad jokes. Worse than Dad jokes.
So here on Storygraph, while I did listen to the audio, I'm marking the ebook copy (which I also had and looked through, shaking my head even more) because the audio is only in a combo unit for the first three books. I'm not sure if I'm more concerned about the extra credit for pages that would give me ... or if I just want to be sure it is noted that I ONLY READ THE FIRST BOOK and did not continue on. For those who love it ... have fun and snagfart!