I started last night. It's a pretty fast read. I got to 20% pretty quickly and I consider myself a slow reader. While it was a fast read, I thought the prologue, the first chapter and the first half of the 2nd chapter didn't quite gell with me well. It was like reading 3 different books. I had been excited about reading it because of what I had heard, but the actual experience had nothing to do with the expectation. The chapters are way too long for my taste. For example.... 20% done and not even through the 2nd chapter. Not to mention, a boss fight every morning seems cheesy. And to have had one every morning for 2 months and some stats just now being leveled to 2 while others up to 7 didn't really make sense to me. I don't think I am going to be able to finish this one. Anyone else have a different opinion? Does it get better? If it does then I may continue, but as is, I'm not looking forward to picking it back up.
It is on my list - I just started Goblin by our very own @Paul Bellow and then Office Wars is next up by @James G Patton. I look forward to both.
I don't remember any of that from Office Wars @WildAzazel. I mean sure the chapters are long and the office war itself is a level based game with a boss on each level, but I don't think we're two months in even now at the end of book two, let alone by chapter two of book one. Unless you mean the fighting with his boss trying to kill him all the time? It seems a lot like the leveling system is freeform and depends on leveling actual primary skills to level up overall. The prologue stuff will make sense, there's a plot spoiler there.
The office environment isn't the game, those stats are more from the AI screwing with him. And he did not fight with his boss for 2 months straight, just when he screwed up, for example, showing up late. But yes, first book and I didn't use beta readers or I would have cut a big part of the prologue and probably that first chapter. However, get past that first 20% and it really takes off. I took the reviews from that first book and streamlined the second one to cut a lot of those slower parts out or down, and then did a lot more focus in the Office War game. As far as the chapters, I do about 4k word chapters, there are several scenes to a chapter. Some people break them up differently, I could label each scene as a chapter, but that feels odd. Maybe I'll try that with my other series and see how it plays out. Which is actually a good discussion point, I mean how do other author's like to break up their chapters/scenes? I'm kind of curious now. That said, you gave it a try and if you don't continue on, I get it. I appreciate you taking the time to try it out.
I don't get that... where do you get that? I'll give it another shot since I'm already at the 20% mark.
read both books, one has a slow start but once you get into the office environment it takes off. as for cheese... yeah what's your point? that's the whole fun of this type of books!
If you like Office Wars you'll probably also really like the K'Barth novels. The protagonist is painfully dense, but that kinda helps the comedy work a bit. It's a lighthearted sci-fi adventure, for the most part, even if some scenes can get fairly dark.
Haha, my favorite stories have dark humor. I'm the kind of guy that laughs at a funeral, not out of disrespect but because I use humor to deal with bad shit. So I like stories that make me laugh at horrible things that I should never laugh at. Yea I know, I got issues lol.
I went to school with a dude named Michael Bob. I never pictured him as the authorly type, but I guess I was wrong!
