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“Now I know this is a late review, seen as how "V and A shipping" is about 6 years old now. But I just thought I would leave a comment. Overall the story of a young man Joey who gets thrown 3000 years into future and pops up on the other side of the galaxy, is an allright plotpoint, were it not for the total lack of trying to figure out how. That put aside, the plot continues and he has to find his whereabouts on a small spaceship, crewed by aliens and the last humans in the universe. The whole plot that evolves around the ships captain getting an offer he can't refuse, and trying to make a delivery of beer on time, actually works for me. Though one of the main characters, Joey, an 18 year old nerd, is unbelievable and childish. But lets not dweel on that. The story's mandatory evil guy ramains hidden for a good part of the story which is allright, if it wasn't for the comic relief of a space policeman hunting the poor crew. The space ranger is so inadequate and incompetent, that he never poses any threat to our heroes. And this makes him quite unessesary to the storyline. Not to mention that he keeps tossing around human phrases and demanding hamburgers (3000 years in the future on the other side of the galaxy, with all humankind destroid except for three timewarped persons, not very likely?) So lets throw him out of the equation. Then there's the language. Now this book must fall into the category of tween literature, where it just hangs by its nails. The language is flat, drab, and full of flaws. Example: "It was like babysitting a couple of babies." What else would you be BABY-sitting? The same words are used in abundance, hence the vocabulary is extreemly limited. So lets take that away aswell (or at least not put it into account).
The ending of the story, and I'm not going to spoil it, is the most fabricated and boring, unbelievable I've encountered for a long time. I allmost threw a fit in the car hearing it.
It does seem that I'm too old for this kind of fiction, but just because you're young, you don't have to be feeded bad stories.
Overall I must say, that I kinda liked the story or at least what is left of it when you pull away all the bad stuff. Couldn't it just have been a freightcrew geting an almost impossible mission?”
madskamp via Apple Podcasts ·
Denmark ·
09/14/10
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“My title says it all... great sci fi moments with a cheesy ending that let the whole story down.”
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02/08/10
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Rw2120 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/14/10
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