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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Starts out charming, but after about 2/3rds in, it just doesn't really go anywhere, and the shtick goes from fun to silly and a little tiresome. The Audible version features an amazing narrator, however, who manages to come up with a different voice for every major character and most minor ones, seamlessly and consistently. The plot is pulp sci-fi at its finest, cliché after cliché, but padded out with enough dry humor to make the whole thing not just palatable, but actually enjoyable. Let me be clear, though: there is no way I would have enjoyed this book quite so much if it wasn't an audiobook. A lot of books translate perfectly acceptably when read aloud, neither gaining or losing from the conversion. Some become utterly destroyed, like trying Virginia Woolf in spoken form (I don't know what I was thinking, really. What works magnificently as a voice inside your head fails utterly outside it). This book is all about Emperor Mollusk's voice, and so it should be little surprise that it was the narration of that voice which won me over. If it weren't for the main character's over-the-top delivery, the pure B-Movie joy infused into otherwise dead conversations, I don't think I'd have managed to make it through this. no reviews | add a review
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Emperor Mollusk, ex-warlord of Earth, comes out of retirement to save the planet from the sinister brain's control. No library descriptions found.
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Still; fun as hell -- just lacking a certain zing. ( )