~390.6 hour of reading·23439 chapter read
PtBrainum
Sep 28, 2022 Joined
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Rising America
Sep 16, 2024
Reviewing at chapter 102, so far it's pretty weird. When you read that it was an alien elementary school driver I think it means an alien student driver, as in someone getting driving training. [Edit at chapter 500: nope, it really is an alien who's species lives so long he's still in elementary school] There's a lot of explanation involved before the story actually starts, and even afterwards there's a lot of explanation. A number of things are explained as being because it's an alternate time line, and things are different. Sometimes things aren't explained that way, and instead are built around presumed cultural norms from the authors experience as a Chinese person. For example a 16 year old living on his own with a child, not happening in America, minimum age would be 18, even then social services would likely step in and take the baby. If the government was conservative since world war 2, then that age would be 21, not 18. So a few cultural misapprehensions by the author. Same with drinking, age 21, and strip clubs, age 21. He's not going to be doing these things at are 16 in public or at a neighbors house. [Edit chapter 500: The main character has several names depending on what the author used, Kim Hyun-tae, Jin Xiantai, and William King. His daughter is also Either Ke Ke or Coco. His business manager is either Joan or Qiao An. The Chinese author has trouble using the same name every time, and as all the books here are machine translated it has trouble with them also. Sometimes things are in English but the author gets then wrong. For example the daughters clothing line in Chinese starts as Hello Panda, then Hey Panda, then eventually is just in English as Panta (poor English spelling). If you see anything in [brackets] then it's probably written originally in English. [Edit chapter 615] for the last few chapters superhero comic characters have been showing up, Howard Stark, magneto, Spider-Man, a young Bruce Wayne, etc. then the girls start trying to force him to have sex, I'm done.
Born In England
Sep 15, 2024
Fast moving, not very realistic, but fun to think about. Not a very long book, and not a great ending.
Good until he's kidnapped by aliens around chapter 700. No harem, and old man in library is only in about 5 chapters, had little to do with actual story. So reviewer below left too early.
Land ownership is quite legal in China, not sure where other reviewer got the idea it wasn't. I stopped reading because it changed from a system novel to a cultivation novel with a spiritual force returning to the world slant, not interested.
Incredibly boring lab grunt work. There's no story here, it's just a series of lab procedures that aren't interesting, and it goes on like this for at least 70 boring chapters. If you find cleaning petri dishes to be the sexiest thing you've ever done, this book is just right for you. If you want a story and not a lab manual go find something else.
Ok, I got to chapter 2900. They are really short, and not much happens in each chapter so it's a quick read. The author though is an idiot, the MC keeps getting invited to awards, and they all follow the same idiotic format, the invited give a short presentation, and the best presentation gets the award. None of the major awards are done that way, and he has Nobel Fields. Even a lifetime achievement award all running the same way. Additionally he had the BBC as a major American News company (it's in England in America) NASA headquarters in San Francisco (try Florida or Houston) and a hundred other stupid mistakes. Meanwhile the MC starting at age 17 has now managed to reach age 18 and collect all these awards and success, but the author realized he's screwed it up, so student the MC is saying he's 20, even though not that much time has gone by. I don't know if it was completed or not, no updates for a year, and I'm not prepared to read another 2500 chapters to find out. The MC gives away lots of valuable patents to help the world, then when he blackmails his enemies to get some cash his own government takes it from him, and he rolls over like the little bitch he is.
Starts ok, then gets very stupid. MC builds a high level robotic device for surveillance, then leaves China because he didn't want to be under constant surveillance. He goes to Africa where he is robbed, kidnapped, and continuously attacked by various forces but defends himself with robots he builds in the middle of nowhere Africa, with his bare hands. Gave up at chapter 115.
Super Scan
Jan 9, 2024
Meh, got to chapter 165. Lots of retconning, where suddenly the hero did something so that he has some special trick that no one knew about. Pretty stupid, and lots of fighting. System showed him to kill someone, which he didn't want to do, and he did, and afterwards he's gone around killing anybody in his way. Meets up with a child hood friend who backstory reveals they used to play by flicking each other's dicks. I'm sure they're are better books out there, so I'm going to go find them.
Very well written, lots of good science in the story, the system only creates believable things, and it's all very well researched. The characters are fun, and it ends well. Definitely recommend it.
Seriously racist writer who hates everything not Chinese, never finished the book, and has no idea how his future technologies actually work, while sounding much like a rip off of other much better books.