Books

Books : reviews

Charles Yu.
Third Class Superhero.
Harvet. 2006

Charles Yu.
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.
Corvus. 2010

rating : 6 : unfinishable
review : 22 August 2025

My name is Charles Yu.

I'm a time machine repairman.

In one minute, I'm going to murder myself. Again.

The blurb looks interesting.

I got to page 68, and nothing interesting had happened yet. So I gave up.

It might get better later. But so far it is just confusing moaning by the boring protagonist living a boring life in his boring time machine, maundering on about his boring father.

I realised I was putting off picking it up again whenever I put it down, and just slogging through it when I eventually did pick it up. So I decided to take a pass, and read something else instead.