Read, damnit

Sometimes I wonder why I bother writing my little, crappy book reviews. I mean, I'm perfectly aware that none of you actually read them, and that those that do have no intention of ever reading any of the books I talk about. That's fine. Hell, nobody really reads anymore, anyways. (This link is a pdf, but I couldn't find a link to a text version of the report.)

Anyways, I'm writing another book review. Read it, don't read it, look at it longing for picture books, do what you will.

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Largely due to the fact that I am a gigantic dork, one of my favorite things to do is to wander through libraries/bookstores looking for books to read. Recently, I have been informed that I can't buy anymore books, as I don't seem to have anywhere to put them all. Sad state of affairs, really. So.. I've been confining my wandering to the library. And to be honest, it's paying off. I've written about a couple of the great books I've found this way, and yesterday I found another.

Soon I Will Be Invincible, by Austin Grossman is a debut novel, and I will not do a good enough job describing the plot to make anyone want to read it, but I might be able to get the tone right. Roughly speaking, SIWBI switches back and forth between two narrators on opposite sides of a battle. In some ways, this is a cops and robbers sort of book. In others, it is a set of character studies, as both narrators describe the same (and different) stories from their perspective.

Oh, did I mention that this is a book about Superheroes? One of the narrators is a Cyborg named Fatale, and the other is a megalomaniac genius intent on world domination, in the mold of Dr. Evil or Lex Luthor.

See that? I lost you already.

All I can say to convince anybody to read this book is to describe how I'm reading it.

Some books, I can't put down, I'm so anxious to get to the end and figure out what happens.

Some, I can't wait to put down, because they suck so much.

Others, like this one, I wish I could make myself read slower, because I'm enjoying it so much I don't want to finish. I read half the book last night, and will probably finish it tonight, because I'm dying to get back to it, but I may just finish the book and turn back to the first page to read it again.