Year Zero: A Novel
Registered by reveredchicken of Calgary, Alberta Canada on 1/14/2018
This book is in a Controlled Release!
This book is in a Controlled Release!
9 journalers for this copy...
Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it's a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on American pop songs ever since "Year Zero" (1977 to us), resulting in the biggest copy-right violation since the Big Bang, and bankrupting the whole universe. Nick has just been tapped to clean up this mess before things get ugly. Thankfully, this unlikely galaxy-hopping hero does know a thing or two about copyright law. Now, with Carly and Frampton as his guides, Nick has forty-eight hours to save humanity - while hoping to wow the hot girl who lives down the hall from him.
I loved this book! Laugh out loud funny and quirky in all the right ways.
I loved this book! Laugh out loud funny and quirky in all the right ways.
Releasing this book at the annual book crossing Christmas party, wrapped book exchange.
Picked up this book at the Calgary BookCrossing Christmas wrapped book exchange. The first sentence ("Aliens suck at music.") was what drew my attention.
After reading this book, you come the realization that the music industry is one messed up place when it comes to music rights and music pirating. I'm sure Rob Reid didn't have to make up anything. The other stuff with the various aliens and the plot to destroy Earth was fun. There were bits where it was exposition heavy, since Nick doesn't know a thing about how life is outside of the Earth. I also found the footnotes to be distracting. Like, why have them? Either the information is important enough to include in the narrative or it's not. I did read the ebook version, which doesn't lay out the footnotes very well, so maybe that's why I had a hard time with them. But the book is good for a laugh regardless.
Passing on this book to the next reader at the Calgary BookCrossing February meet-up.
Picked up at the Feb. meeting
Taken to the March meeting!
To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at Cravings Market on Fairmount Drive SE. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!
To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at Cravings Market on Fairmount Drive SE. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!
I picked this up at the March meeting.
This was funny, weird, bizarre - how did the writer come up with the concept of intergalactic music rites. Enjoyable read.
I am taking this to the July meetup at Cravings!
Picked up at get together!
Enjoyed this book So Much. I started it at just the right time, in just the right mood - completely quirky and ridiculous, I loved this fluffy, feel good, save the world story. It made me giggle.
The reality tv aspect was a lil bit much for me. But I love how valuable they find music, and how True Fans the aliens are. I also love some of the twists the alien points of view put on some aspects of human life and history.
Thanks for the fun read!
The reality tv aspect was a lil bit much for me. But I love how valuable they find music, and how True Fans the aliens are. I also love some of the twists the alien points of view put on some aspects of human life and history.
Thanks for the fun read!
Taken to get together
Came highly recommended at local meetup, looking forward to reading it.
Handoff to fellow book-crosser.
Caught from another member through a private hand off
Wacky story about a lawyer helping an Alien civilization while trying to save earth from surefire destruction. Great descriptions of alien universes and the variety of aliens themselves. Laughed out loud a few times! Easy read - something to put down and pick up on a whim!
Released to local circulating book box #2
Totally looks like my jam, so I am taking it out of Book Box #2
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Edited to add that the book has Sarah on the sticky, but since she has as many books in her queue as I do, I didn't think she'd mind if I snagged it first
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Edited to add that the book has Sarah on the sticky, but since she has as many books in her queue as I do, I didn't think she'd mind if I snagged it first
Hilarious! This book checked all my boxes - quirky characters, pop culture references, an asshole alien that looks like a parrot, a talking vacuum cleaner, FOOTNOTES (I LOVE FOOTNOTES!!) - what wasn't to love?!
Super fun and I am really glad I snagged this from the book box
Super fun and I am really glad I snagged this from the book box
Putting it into Book Box #1 circulating amongst our Calgary Bookcrossers to find a new reader.
Picked this up from travelling book box #1
Fun and funny read! Pulled me out of my reading funk. Thanks ReveredChicken!
Bringing to the Sept Calgary Bookcrossing meetup.
