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Rip-Off! (2012)

by John Scalzi(Favorite Author)

3.38 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Audible Frontiers

review 1: I wanted to love this book. The first half was really slow. The second half is better. I had read feedback that said if one story didn't suit you to skip it and move on. That was great advice. I'm not sure if it was some of the writing styles or that the premise of some of the stories were just not up my alley. I think my favorite story was one that was a version of Bewitched. It was clever and I really enjoyed it.
review 2: The idea of "ripping off" famous stories by taking their first sentences seemed interesting, so I bought Rip-Off! I finished the book with mixed feelings. There are some great stories in it. Scalzi hits the high bar as he usually does, I liked The Muse of Fire the most. I had some good time with The Red Menace (by Lavie Tidhar) and T... morehe Big Whale (by Allen M. Steele). There were OK stories with nice twist at the end, like Writers' Block (by Nancy Kress), and there were OK stories, which were pleasant to listen to without having big endings, like The Lady Astronaut of Mars (by Mary Robinette Kowal). Then other stories were waste of time, I gave up on some of them after five minutes, for example Karin Coxswain or Death as She Is Truly Lived (by Paul Di Filippo). So, do I suggest this book? Yes, if you have fair tolerance towards books with good stories mixed with ones going nowhere. less

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