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Summary: Witty social commentary in a science fiction guise.
Review: This book is great. It's easy to read, funny and full of witty irony. Indeed, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, as shown by the Gruumsbaggians' attempt to restore the human civilization.
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Summary: I really LIKEd it.
Review: This book is great. It's easy to read, funny and full of witty irony. Indeed, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, as shown by the Gruumsbaggians' attempt to restore the human civilization.
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Summary: Good stuff
Review: This book made my day. Funny, inventive, satirical. It lets you take a look at your life from a different perspective. I would recommend it to everyone who likes intelligent reading
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Summary: Absolutely hilarious!!!
Review: This is a great book! A must read for anyone who loves science fiction, humor, fun.
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Summary: I really dis-LIKE-d it.
Review: This is without a doubt one of the most blatant rip-offs of Adams' classic Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
While trying to inject some wit into his sitcom-like novel, Like falls flat.
It's actually hard to name one particular thing that I felt was wrong...it was as if the whole thing couldn't even get past its conceptual stage.
A group of 200 humans propagating in the span of 500 years?
Well, maybe their inbreeding is why the dialogue sounds worse than your average episode of Melrose Place.
I should've known from the cover that this book was a turd.
The only good review was the one from the publishing company.
There's at least one thing that should cheer up Mr. Like: he's discovered the cure for insomnia.
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Summary: Buy this book (Just in case!)
Review: Wow! Funny book! I had never heard of Russel Like nor his book, but saw a copy with a "Personally Autographed" sticker on it on the "Local Authors" shelf at a Princeton-area bookstore. Browsing the back cover, I was absolutely intrigued by the concept, so I bought it....I think it is HILARIOUS! It really cuts to the heart of our rapacious, materialistic, acquisitive society! I've zipped through Jamesburg a few thousand times...even used to swim in Thompson Park lake back in the '60's (my best friend and I would ride our bikes there from Somerset, NJ!) when it was clean enough to do so (before the Blue). My wife's cousin owned a little store on Railroad Ave. for years. However, I don't think I'll ever be able to transit the town again and feel quite the same way about it! HUGELY enjoyed the attempts by the alien race to recreate the university milieu! Rutgers University gets what it deserves! (as a graduate I'm allowed to say that!) It is satire worthy of Douglas Adams. Anyhow, I hope this book takes off and sells well. Mr. Like writes well IMHO, and he deserves success! (BTW, has he written anything else that I might stumble across in my travels?) The inscription in my book says "Hope you enjoy it! Best Wishes, " I certainly did, and best wishes to Mr. Like. His book can be considered an immensely humorous manifesto on how we might react to an alien invasion....
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Summary: Buy this book (Just in case!)
Review: Wow! Funny book! I had never heard of Russel Like nor his book, but saw a copy with a "Personally Autographed" sticker on it on the "Local Authors" shelf at a Princeton-area bookstore. Browsing the back cover, I was absolutely intrigued by the concept, so I bought it....I think it is HILARIOUS! It really cuts to the heart of our rapacious, materialistic, acquisitive society! I've zipped through Jamesburg a few thousand times...even used to swim in Thompson Park lake back in the '60's (my best friend and I would ride our bikes there from Somerset, NJ!) when it was clean enough to do so (before the Blue). My wife's cousin owned a little store on Railroad Ave. for years. However, I don't think I'll ever be able to transit the town again and feel quite the same way about it! HUGELY enjoyed the attempts by the alien race to recreate the university milieu! Rutgers University gets what it deserves! (as a graduate I'm allowed to say that!) It is satire worthy of Douglas Adams. Anyhow, I hope this book takes off and sells well. Mr. Like writes well IMHO, and he deserves success! (BTW, has he written anything else that I might stumble across in my travels?) The inscription in my book says "Hope you enjoy it! Best Wishes, <RL_sig>" I certainly did, and best wishes to Mr. Like. His book can be considered an immensely humorous manifesto on how we might react to an alien invasion....
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