The Lives of Tao [Kindle Edition] Author: Wesley Chu | Language: English | ISBN:
B00A1M5EG2 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Goodreads Choice 2013 Finalist - Science FictionWinner of the Alex Award for the American Library Association's 2014 Youth Media Awards
When out-of-shape IT technician Roen woke up and started hearing voices in his head, he naturally assumed he was losing it.
He wasn't.
He now has a passenger in his brain - an ancient alien life-form called Tao, whose race crash-landed on Earth before the first fish crawled out of the oceans. Now split into two opposing factions - the peace-loving, but under-represented Prophus, and the savage, powerful Genjix - the aliens have been in a state of civil war for centuries. Both sides are searching for a way off-planet, and the Genjix will sacrifice the entire human race, if that's what it takes.
Meanwhile, Roen is having to train to be the ultimate secret agent. Like that's going to end up well...
File Under: Science Fiction [ The Tug of War | I Was Genghis | Diary of a Slob | Spy vs Spy ]
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- File Size: 531 KB
- Print Length: 464 pages
- Publisher: Angry Robot (April 30, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00A1M5EG2
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,539 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
Once again I seem to be outside the hivemind. Look around the internet, & you'll see glowing gushing reviews for Wesley Chu's debut. Funny, action packed, with a protagonist that people identify with. That hasn't been my experience at all.
Here's the setup: When a spy mission goes cockeyed, an alien named Tao is forced to look for a new host. He grabs Roen Tan & enlists him in a war between alien species that goes back millions of years. Hijinks ensue.
The tone is light & breezy; the type that you would normally associate with an Urban Fantasy novel. Despite the hilarity that so many others experienced, I didn't find the book to be particularly funny. Of course humor is incredibly subjective, so YMMV.
My biggest gripe is squarely at the center of the book: Roen Tan himself. When we first meet Roen, he's an underemployed fat slob with a post-collegiate drinking problem. While out on a drunken night on the town, he ends up playing the unwilling host to Tao. Other than as a collection of negative characteristics, Roen as a character doesn't really seem to exist. He has no interests or hobbies. He doesn't actually have any friends. (His roommate is the closest to a friend that we meet, yet their relationship seems to be more of a caricature of young male friendships rather than an actual representation of such.) He exists more as a placeholder for audience identification than as an actual character.
Assuming that Roen is indeed intended as an audience identifier, then his characterization is insulting. (And I would argue that he does in fact exist solely for the reader to identify with. The narrative is crafted in such a way that the reader is forced into this position.
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