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Then I looked at the other reviews and saw everyone throwing the word "fun" around, talking about how they had a good time reading it, how it would make for a great flight/beach read and stuff. Loved many of the funny and touching moments, as well as hated the characters the author wanted me to. It is created by building a main character who never mentions, thinks, talks about sex, romance, gender, dating, sexual attraction etc. In the process, Jamie discovers just how much of an asshole that former boss really is, to the potential detriment of two worlds.
In an alternate dimension, massive dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm, human-free world. And I mean Fun in the way that a Gojira named Bella is fun while a bunch of lilliputians tries to get Edward, another Gojira, to mate with the previously mentioned Bella. I already know this is going to be one of my comfort reads and I can see myself re-reading this multiple times in the future. I'm sorry, he's not skilled enough at writing a female POV so his “genderless” characters sound like men.Instead the villains are corporate, they are in the field of business, of getting disgustingly rich and not giving one damn about the cost.
A terrific mix of science fiction, laugh out loud humor and some really touching character development, not to mention it has Godzilla sized entities on another Earth that is brushing dangerously close to ours.Most of the book is concerned with just setting up the world and how it exists and then there's a tacked on ending to add some drama.
The society of scientists--and main character Jamie Gray, who’s there only to “lift things,” as he points out to an annoyingly frequent degree--are an overly sarcastic bunch who spend more time talking about the kaiju in meetings than interacting with them in the wild. If you’re in the mood for a fun, light-hearted reads with cheeky humor, plenty of action, and fun characters, this is an awesome pick. As discreetly as possible, I adjusted my center of gravity so I was no longer listing ever so slightly starboard. With The Kaiju Preservation Society, I felt all those vibes as well, making this one a must-read for any fan of the author. The story is sort of combination of Jurassic Park and Redshirts (not the latter’s meta parts, but the vibe of four new people being dropped together into a strange new environment and learning about it at the same time as the reader).In another mood this might have been exactly what I was looking for but at this time I think I was in the mood for something with more substance. The book is full of action and just as full of plot holes, including scenes that are illogical or disconnected from the main narrative. I think this book is an easy read, I had fun at some point, and I'll probably read more Scalzi in the future, especially his serious stuff. The banter and dialogue were hilariously entertaining, the science was interesting and the book moved along at a nice pace.
La vera perla sono ovviamente i personaggi e i dialoghi, che mantengono un tono leggero e allegro anche di fronte ad eventi drammatici. There’s nothing all that unique about this novel except for the setting and I won’t spoil that—it’s its redeeming quality.For the Kaiju, a nuclear explosion makes for the perfect nesting site, where large creatures can feed on Kaiju eggs, and the Kaiju parasites in turn feed on the creatures eventually giving nutrients back to the Kaiju, giving them the means to produce more eggs. We spotted the smoke before we spotted the kaiju itself, the smoke curled into the sky and hung in thick and listless air. He smiled back, rolled over a standard desk chair and sat in backward, arms crossed over the back, looking down at me. It realigned the beanbag so I was in a slightly less compacted position, but my tablet slid into the well my body had created. I can't believe I fucking wrote over 300 words to convey how/why I could've had more fun reading this book.
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