Cosmo-what?

Hi everybody! (Hi doctor Nick) Steve here. (That's King Steve to you bub) At this point, I've read a hundred pages of the Cosmonaut Keep book. Normally I strive to read twenty-five pages a day, but I was lazy on Friday so I'm a little behind. No worries though, I'm still making status quo. Anyway, first of all, I want to point out something I found rather bothersome: the one chapter named after the book is in fact the most boring one I've read so far. How does that work? *Snort...Now as I've made clear in the past, I'm not a common reader of science fiction, so I may be out of line a little here; is it just me, or does this book not describe it's universe enough? It is like the guy makes up this whole new exciting universe for his story to take place, and us readers are being kept out of the loop! If anything, it should be the other way around (you figure it out).So far I've collected this much: there has been a third world war, there are trillions of gods, they all have space travel (but it takes a while), and there's pot-smoking dinosaurs. Hell, the saurs aren't even really accounted for.So, this leads me to some very critical questions here. 1. How many damn planets are there? 2. Where did the saurs come from? 3. How many aliens are there? 4. What the hell is a Cosmonaut Keep? As much as I'd like to keep(heh heh) an optimistic attitude, I can't imagine I'm going to have all the answers by the end of the book. Chances are, it is going to leave me wanting more. Damn him...Finally, my overall opinion of the book so far. At times I space out as I'm reading. Other times I'll eat up every bit of juicy futuristic information I can gather in attempt to better understand this universe. I think, however, that this equation is a little lopsided. I'm sure that as my eyes mechanically drift over the text while my mind wanders away, something important is happening, but it is just not interesting enough for me to pay attention to. The times that I'm paying the most attention to detail is when that detail is painting a better picture of this universe in my head. I think that if this story contained even less revealing information, I'd barely ever know what's going on. What does all this add up to? A mildly entertaining piece of literature that is swimming dangerously close to the deep end. Will this book return to the nice, safe shallows for some carefree lounging in the pool, or start drowning in the depths, struggling to save it's life? I guess we'll see. In the meantime, will someone throw this thing a life preserver? It's adult swim in five minutes.

Cosmo-what?

Hi everybody! (Hi doctor Nick) Steve here. (That's King Steve to you bub) At this point, I've read a hundred pages of the Cosmonaut Keep book. Normally I strive to read twenty-five pages a day, but I was lazy on Friday so I'm a little behind. No worries though, I'm still making status quo. Anyway, first of all, I want to point out something I found rather bothersome: the one chapter named after the book is in fact the most boring one I've read so far. How does that work? *Snort...
Now as I've made clear in the past, I'm not a common reader of science fiction, so I may be out of line a little here; is it just me, or does this book not describe it's universe enough? It is like the guy makes up this whole new exciting universe for his story to take place, and us readers are being kept out of the loop! If anything, it should be the other way around (you figure it out).
So far I've collected this much: there has been a third world war, there are trillions of gods, they all have space travel (but it takes a while), and there's pot-smoking dinosaurs. Hell, the saurs aren't even really accounted for.
So, this leads me to some very critical questions here. 1. How many damn planets are there? 2. Where did the saurs come from? 3. How many aliens are there? 4. What the hell is a Cosmonaut Keep? As much as I'd like to keep(heh heh) an optimistic attitude, I can't imagine I'm going to have all the answers by the end of the book. Chances are, it is going to leave me wanting more. Damn him...
Finally, my overall opinion of the book so far. At times I space out as I'm reading. Other times I'll eat up every bit of juicy futuristic information I can gather in attempt to better understand this universe. I think, however, that this equation is a little lopsided. I'm sure that as my eyes mechanically drift over the text while my mind wanders away, something important is happening, but it is just not interesting enough for me to pay attention to. The times that I'm paying the most attention to detail is when that detail is painting a better picture of this universe in my head. I think that if this story contained even less revealing information, I'd barely ever know what's going on. What does all this add up to? A mildly entertaining piece of literature that is swimming dangerously close to the deep end. Will this book return to the nice, safe shallows for some carefree lounging in the pool, or start drowning in the depths, struggling to save it's life? I guess we'll see. In the meantime, will someone throw this thing a life preserver? It's adult swim in five minutes.