I finished "Soon I Will Be Invincible" the other day. I gotta say...it was okay, I guess.
It was kinda irritating, though. There was no sense of...anything, really. All the characters came across as distant, disaffected jerk-offs. And I don't object to that on the basis of them superheroes/supervillains, I object to that on the basis of "Why the fuck should I care enough about you assholes to finish the book?"
And, not to sound arrogant or anything, but I left the book with the grumbling feeling that it would have been better if I had written it. Which either makes me a colossal egomaniac, or makes the author...not that good.
No, it's something in the book. I left it with the feeling that it would have been better if you'd written it.
I left it with the feeling that it would have been better if you'd written it.
If you're serious, I'm seriously touched.
Another thing that pisses me off is that I have this superhero book idea...but now I'm afraid it'll get compared to SIWBI. And that would suck like Dr. Vaccuum's Ultra Suck Device of Doom.
I thought it was worth reading, but I wanted more. I guess if you choose to have your characters be super villains and super heroes - there should be more sense of play. and that really wasn't there. You could have done that, MM.
I read another book shortly after I read
Invincible
and it was much better.
Evil Genius
by Catherine Jinks. It was for kids , but it had more character development
Go write your book(Yeah, I feel that way a lot...)
I need only two things to write my awesome, Pulitzer, Hugo, Nebula and Nobel Prize winning book:
Energy.
and
Time.
...
I may well be fucked.
No, I'm serious. I thought "MM should read this." Then I thought "MM won't like it. It comes in the right wrapper, but it doesn't have enough...enough." Then I thought "I'd like to read MM's version of this."
Go write your book.
GWYB.
The new AIFG.
But I concur with the opinions expressed here.
