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Review: The Android’s Dream

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi
My Rat­ing: 5 out of 5.

This book is a delight­fully wacky tale of one man’s fight to keep a very spe­cial sheep alive. In the process, our hero will have to fight off var­i­ous aliens and a few treach­er­ous vil­lain­ous humans. Scat­tered through­out The Android’s Dream are numer­ous one lin­ers. Each one of these taken by itself and out­side the con­text of the story are funny, but put together and in con­text they’re hys­ter­i­cal. LOL is a com­mon abbre­vi­a­tion used online that stands for “Laugh Out Loud”. These days it is mostly used to indi­cate some­body found some­thing else amus­ing and does not actu­ally mean any truly laughed out­side of their own head. I bring this up as I repeat­edly found myself laugh­ing out loud while read­ing The Android’s Dream. Below are a few of my favorite lines from the book:

Jesus, for­give me, he thought. I really shouldn’t have eaten that panda.

“No more shoes in advance for any­one,” he said.

“Today peo­ple have tried to kill me, the police are look­ing for me, and I’ve just dis­cov­ered every Easter of my child­hood, I ate one of my rel­a­tives with mint jelly. I’m just fine.”

“I don’t know … You’d have to ask the sheep.”

It dri­ves physi­cists mad and every few years on e will snap and begin rav­ing that sen­tient beings should nae fuck with that which they ken nae unnder­stan’

If my lit­tle review here fails to entirely con­vince you to rush out and find a copy of this book to read, then try Bookgasm’s review

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