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The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
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really liked it
bookshelves: 2023-priority-list

Thoroughly fun and enjoyable. Like an action movie, with lots of humour and monsters
Its like the foreign legion for nerds

Full of banter and rollicking as an action movie. Really enjoyed it and gives one vibes to immediately rewatch some Godzilla films.
Our main character is a likeable everyman, who at the start of the pandemic is being fired from his delivery company start up. He makes an ungracious fall from a corporate job to a driver, and despite some conflicts (I don’t like you. I get that a lot) this serves as a catalyst to a mysterious job.
Here the Godzilla connection becomes more clear (So we’re the monster police, too). What follows is a fun, fast ride, with Kaiju's called Bella and Edward, cinematic villains and an overall happy ending.

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I’m ready to come and get you if you need an emergency extract. Please don’t need an emergency extract.

The one advantage of walking around in a nuclear explosion debris field, if one wanted to call it an advantage, was that there was very little verticality

You don’t think of Bella as intelligent because she is not playing the stock market or some other utterly irrelevant standard
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Reading Progress

January 4, 2022 – Shelved
January 4, 2022 – Shelved as: to-read
December 18, 2022 – Shelved as: 2023-priority-list
February 5, 2023 – Started Reading
February 12, 2023 – Finished Reading

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Hayley Looking forward to this one - glad you liked it!


Henk Its a fun read. The author likens it to a popsong and I’d agree with him!


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