To Finish or Not To Finish....
I feel really bad when I don't finish a book. I very very rarely ever don't finish a book that I start. Unfortunately, a specific book that I received through the giveaway section here... well, it starts out really slowly and then turns into a AD&D (2nd Edition, thank you very much) campaign that I played in college. It was close enough to the point where I had to email my old GM (Game Master) to ask him if we really did run a campaign like this. My memory was correct.
The premise of the book starts out well. You have six high school students who are miraculously transported (in the book, via wormhole caused by a collision between another car and a government van carrying who knows what) to an alternate reality. The villages they find are empty, and there appears to be some plague or evilness that has killed or driven off everyone. The students find themselves becoming stereotypes of the different Dungeons & Dragons character types. You have the shaman/elf, you have the ranger/thief, you have the warrior, you have the scholar... the last two high-schoolers haven't fallen into their stereotypes yet, but I'm sure that they will.
The problem isn't that the book is bad. Other than the first part of the book which is a little slow, the story picks up the pace and things look to be going better. I just can't get past the fact that it pretty much mirrors a game I played in college with the same characters and plot. I KNOW that the author wasn't playing D&D with me and I KNOW that we didn't write down the storyline or anything, so it's kinda freaky how similar this is.
I'll probably go back to reading it at some point, but for now it's on my "Didn't Finish" shelf.
