They Tell Me I'm The Bad Guy edition by R D Harless Literature Fiction eBooks
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Work. Home. Work. Home. Drink. Smoke. Work. Home. It's a routine that's kept Donnie Guillory a free man ten years after one of the most shocking acts of Post-Human devastation the world had ever seen. Control, caution and a factory time clock run his life, his fireproof suit long ago moth-balled along with hazy drunken memories of tearing up Europe. But someone with abilities like his can't stay forgotten forever, and when he's dragged back into the murky life of manipulation and violence he's come to hate, he'll have the powers on both sides of the law shaking the earth to put him under their thumb. But if there's one thing Donnie's misspent youth taught him, it was that few things can't be solved with cigarettes, obscenities, a couple of felonies, and a well-placed inferno.
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They Tell Me I'm The Bad Guy edition by R D Harless Literature Fiction eBooks
I enjoyed this book immensely. I'm not the biggest super-hero fan of all time, and I think this may be the first time I've read a novel about one — or, in this case, about a super-villain. But never mind that; the important thing is that this is fast-paced with a believable fantasy world and characters who feel like the belong there. I'm not saying this will win any awards for the great American novel, but it's not trying to, either, and it does what it's trying to do _very well_. When I got to the end, I wanted more — and really, what more can I ask from a book?Product details
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They Tell Me I'm The Bad Guy edition by R D Harless Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Takes place in a world where super powered beings are a fact of life. The main character is a character with the ability to control fire, he is a former criminal trying to go straight. He gets sucked into the criminal life for one last job, and all hell breaks loose.
Very good for a free book. Interesting and fun.
Noir is one of my favorite genres - there's usually a thin line separating the good guys and the bad guys, and when the story is about bad guys, it's about the difference between the only somewhat bad guys and the total psychos.
This is an excellent example of noir, only with superheroes thrown in. Genre mixing at its best. Yes, the main character doesn't have a lot of redeeming qualities, but he's not as bad as the rest of the people he's associated with.
If you like noir, or gritty crime dramas, you'll love this book. It's well written, fast-paced, and with an excellent eye for character.
At first I was reading through this book and was rather enjoying it. But somewhere in the middle it just falls apart.
The downward spiral begins when the main character has just been confronted in his apartment by a drugged up super-speedster, and then is spontaneously teleported elsewhere. I must've gone back and forth around half a dozen times between the chapters, because I was convinced that I'd somehow put in the wrong input, making me skip a chapter, or that there was something there that I just wasn't seeing.
To me it seemed like that was the point where the author ran out of ideas (or his regular medication) and started pulling out weird things just because he couldn't think of some logical way for the plot to progress. The writing begins to get awfully short on details about things going on, and awfully long on various drugs, cigarettes, types of alcohol and their effects.
If the overall goal of the work is to convey the downside of some of humanity's favored vices, mission accomplished. But it doesn't make for a particularly engrossing bit of superpowered fiction. Up until the book derailed (or the author was possessed by the ghost of Hunter S. Thompson, or a Skrull, or a Pod Person, or his counterpart from Stonerspace) I was enjoying it and would have rated that portion at four stars.
The rest of it left me going "Wait, what?" on a regular basis and should be thanking the insects that it thinks are crawling inside its skin that 's rating system doesn't allow for negative stars.
So overall the book gets two stars from me, being the average with the extra half star lopped off due to the wretched later half. What tends to matter most with a book is what it leaves you with at the end. And from the middle to the end the book is just confusing drug-filled dreck.
"Confessions of a D-List Supervillain," and "Soon I Will Be Invincible" have shown that taking the first person account of a supervillain and running with it can result in some rather wonderful results. I've probably read D-List about once a month since I bought it in May.
By comparison "They Tell Me I'm the Bad Guy" is being told that it is a bad book, and has the distinct dishonor of being the only book that I've ever outright removed from my .
Loved this book. More urban science fiction than urban fantasy.
The Dresden Files are great. 'They Tell Me I'm The Bad Guy' is sometimes darker, faster and occasionally much crazier.
No werewolves, vampires, wizards, etc. These characters are 'post humans'. The apparent 'next step' in humans. They have a variety of random abilities and powers.
Some can communicate with dogs. The main character can set you on fire instantly by just thinking it. Other characters have more disturbing abilities. Many have extensive criminal histories. And the government is getting very interested in them.
Hard edged stuff with many rough characters. They smoke, drink, get high and usually have 'mental health' issues. By the end of the novel the nature of reality itself is questioned.
Hopefully this will be the first of many books in what becomes a series.
This book is absolutely a movie waiting to be made.
This is one of those books that showed up in my "recommend" list whenever I load up my page.
Let's be honest, some of it is dreck.
Overwrought, underwritten, playing in the same ballpark as other offerings in the same genre.
"You Tell Me I'm The Bad Guy" is a horse of a different color.
You never really want to like Donnie. You really want to hate his drunken, chain smoking guts.
But you can't.
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But you have to admire him. He's in over his head. He has no real chance.
But somehow he always manages to beat the odds.
Donnie makes bad choices. Most times, bad things come knocking on his door.
His life is a freaking disaster zone.
But he pulls through, using a combination of his incredible powers, dumb luck, animal cunning and pure bullheadedness.
He's NOT likeable. But hand him shit and he'll make a baloney sandwich.
His survival won't be pretty. But he'll damn sure pull the fat out of the fire.
Recommend
I really enjoyed this book, the bad guy was trying to good. If you are into superhero books and not teen romance novels give this one a read.
I enjoyed this book immensely. I'm not the biggest super-hero fan of all time, and I think this may be the first time I've read a novel about one — or, in this case, about a super-villain. But never mind that; the important thing is that this is fast-paced with a believable fantasy world and characters who feel like the belong there. I'm not saying this will win any awards for the great American novel, but it's not trying to, either, and it does what it's trying to do _very well_. When I got to the end, I wanted more — and really, what more can I ask from a book?
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