The Lives of Tao [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition] Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
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When out-of-shape IT technician Roen wakes up and starts hearing voices in his head, he naturally assumes he's losing it.
He isn't.
As of last night, he 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. Over the millennia his people have trained human heroes to be great leaders, to advance our species at a rate far beyond what it would have achieved on its own. 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.
So now Roen must train to be a hero worthy of his unwanted companion. Like that's going to end up well....
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- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 12 hours and 20 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: April 30, 2013
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CKZGF3Y
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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