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| Soon I Will Be Invincible |
After reading The Secret Servant, I need to read something totally frivolous. Soon I Will Be Invincible absolutely fit the bill. SIWBI is basically a spoof of comic book superheros and super villains. One plot follows a super villain as he escapes from prison and starts work on his Doomsday Device Mark V. (The previous four doomsday machines failed.) The other plot follows a cyborg who recently became a new member of the Champions, analogous to the Justice League of America and other superhero teams.
While Grossman really gets into the psychology of heroes and villains, I found that the best parts of Grossman were the small jokes and oddities of this super world. If you know a bit about the comic book world, there are lot of things in here that will make you laugh. One of the things that I found amusing was the disconnect between the characters’ inner monologues, and the cliches that came out of their mouth when superheros spoke to super villains and vice versa.
This isn’t a really a deep book, psychology notwithstanding, but it’s excellent brain candy.