Cai's review
Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel
by Austin Grossman (Goodreads author!)
Cai's review
Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel by Austin Grossman (Goodreads author!)
Cai's review
rating:
bookshelves:
klingons-are-overrated
recommended for: people with an enjoyment of superhero comics
This was a loan from my flatmate, Gabe, who never fails to give me entertaining reads. The premise is fairly simple: the narration is split between an aging villain (a super-genius), and a new superhero. In Grossman's quirky world, the heroes and villains follow the cliches because that's what they do.
The novel begins with the villain, Doctor Impossible, making his escape out of prison for the twelfth time. Twelve times he's tried to take over the world, using robots, time-travel, alternate dimensions, doomsday blimps, armies of giant ants... And each time he has lost because, as he tells us, the heroes always win. So why does a super-genius become a villain if he knows he will always lose? The rest of Doctor Impossible's narration in the novel tells us how he became a villain, piece-by-piece, as he works his way through World Domination Plan #13.
The chapters alternate between Doctor Impossible and Fatale, a woman recently converted into a cyborg after a terribly tragic ...more
The novel begins with the villain, Doctor Impossible, making his escape out of prison for the twelfth time. Twelve times he's tried to take over the world, using robots, time-travel, alternate dimensions, doomsday blimps, armies of giant ants... And each time he has lost because, as he tells us, the heroes always win. So why does a super-genius become a villain if he knows he will always lose? The rest of Doctor Impossible's narration in the novel tells us how he became a villain, piece-by-piece, as he works his way through World Domination Plan #13.
The chapters alternate between Doctor Impossible and Fatale, a woman recently converted into a cyborg after a terribly tragic ...more
