Review: mediocre alien invasion story
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 21, 2014
mediocre alien invasion story. 1950's middle aged nerd and 4 friends go on a hiking excursion in the woods and run up against some alien machines. they manage to kill them all off with "barrages" of .22, .9mm, .45 rounds and a couple of arrows, some rocks, and a baseball bat.it seems unlikely that the author has ever done any serious hiking or he would know that the hiking part of the story is just unrealistic. you can't get into shape in a week of hiking up and down the hills. you will just be wiped out. you also can't run up or down steep trails as was depicted in the book, nor are there all that many trails out in the wilderness to begin with. you also cannot bound from rock to rock while running upstream in a creek. It just does not work that way.I think it unlikely that anyone in 1950 would be armed with a 9 mm. they were just not real common then.Given the limited amount of ammo the story suggests the hikers were carrying they would not have gotten off more than maybe one "barrage" at the alien machines.kind of reads like a high school kid's fantasy. had potential but it really drags in spots and the continual lack of believability made it hard for me to care about the story all that much.I read the whole thing so it gets two stars in my personal rating system just for that, and that is about what it is worth. Its not a real long book which probably is a good thing as it was mediocre enough I might well have quit on it earning it a single star if it had gone on much longer.I got it for free so I can't complain too much about the price. The story line has potential but the writing just did not do anything for me.I realized after I finished reading it that I had gotten another book by the same author for free. I gave that one a single star.AMP Messenger