Will Save the Galaxy for Food

This was an entertaining read that kept me up all night. In the entirety of the book, there was only one thing that I was able to predict and it was in the first part of the book. The rest of the book kept me engaged because I honestly didn't know what to expect next. We only get to read the book from the main character's perspective so we only know what he knows. Turns out, he's out of the loop on a lot of things.In a previous book by this author, Mogworld, I enjoyed his playing around with words. And this book is similar. Because mathematics created Quantunneling, and Quantunneling put the space pilots out of business, mathematical terms became dirty words. As a result, this is a very clean book with only one or two dirty phrases. After the first couple of chapters, hearing someone referred to as a "bracket" no longer seems out of place. It's a rather natural linguistic turn that helps to create and sell the world.I really don't think there was anything in this book that I didn't like. Yahtzee covers a lot of fictional and science fictional tropes within this satire, but they feel like they are a natural part of the world. From Angelo, a space pilot who'd gone native on another world until the princess dumped him, to evil corporate overlords with spoiled children. This book takes place outside of our world, but everything that Yahtzee put into it felt like a natural addition. Nothing was added or mentioned for no purpose and nothing felt out of place. And I STILL couldn't predict anything!The ending for this book wasn't the grand boss battle that I usually like for my sci-fi books. Instead, I got an ending that I didn't know I wanted until I got it. It was a great way to end the book and leave me with with a satisfied smile.So, if you are at all interested in satirical sci-fi novels, I highly recommend you pick this up. Yahtzee has an amazing sense of humor that is complimented by his intelligent story telling. I greatly enjoyed this book and am very glad that I bought it. I will be picking up more of Yahtzee's books.

So I think its a fun jaunty book, it feels pretty nice, but spoiler warnings friends I just have some criticism I'd like the author to maybe hear, and I don't think it takes enough away from the book to make a difference for your purchase.So this is just for me the author, and his editing team.You get back on the planet and that's where you just get a bit too whimsical with the trying to mind read what sort of expectations the readers are having, and subverting them. It might start a little earlier with meeting a certain famous star pilot with a hook hand, but it grew to be a bit tedious and actually detracting from what I could invest myself into at this point in the story.I mean in this general area of the book the twisty ness and stuff just doesn't add to the story, we've already had the wool pulled over our eyes several times through the story and you want to get to the big reveal that it was a themepark, but you send mixed signals in this general area of the book where it gets a bit repetitive and it feels like you don't know what direction you want the story to take and any loose tidbit is something you might go for.The ending feels exactly like this and makes me think you don't know what tone you want to take. The wild card element matches that particular character, because they really are that crazy, and they've been the crazed element ramping up the story, but its the falling action of the book, and once the big mob boss gives his little ah well shucks speech, it ramps it up again, but there's no more book to end on, and then you sort of pull this new element out of a hat where maybe just maybe a certain author might actually be really the next big bad guy, but the story doesn't make any sense at that point because we know how petty and vindictive the mob boss character is, and how well connected he is, and there are these loose strands that I know you may pick up in the next book, but they're so frayed and un coordinated that you don't even know if they're plot lines that matter, because many similar sort of "oh it didn't matter" moments happen in the story, and we are left not knowing about what to care about except specifically what you LET us know we're safe to care about.I'm sorry but it seemed a little rushed and not well packaged story compared to how tight your previous writing has been.

Liked it. The flow is fast and the characters real. Will be looking at other books by the same author.

O presenteado gostou bastante do livro e seu humor, aprovado :D

Tres amusant, sur le style de Douglas Addams et Stefano Benni, mais avec une sensibilitè moderne. Si vous parlez bien anglais, il faut l'essayer.

The book is fantastic, takes no time at all to envelop you in its world. Perfect exposition, a master class in show don't tell (if that's even possible in a book).It's very clever at innovating with new twists on ideas that have come before and been done to death. Could've easily tread the same old ground and suffered under the weight of the work it is inspired by, but instead forges it's own identity. As a stand alone story it is brilliant but I wouldn't mind a few more stories from this universe that has been so masterfully created.I couldn't put it down, finished in little over a day. I will promptly be buying and reading the rest of Yhatzees work.

Die 5 Sterne beziehen sich hier nur auf den Inhalt des Buches der wirklich super ist.Leider habe ich aber scheinbar B-Ware bekommen, da das Backcover einen recht großen schlag hat (Der nicht durch den Versand entstanden ist, da die Verpackung unversehrt war.) und die Ränder ringsum auch schon sehr angeschlagen aussehen. (Zerdrückte ecken, abgesplitterte Farbe am Buchrücken)Zudem wurde das Buch scheinbar auch schon als B-Ware aussortiert, was an der Filzstift Markierung zu erkennen ist.Für das Buch als Produkt würde ich also maximal 2 Sterne geben.