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For various reasons I have consistently avoided this book. However, with my choice of reading material being scarce of late (for equally various reasons) I decided to pick this one up and have a go at it. I must say that after finishing this novel I was kicking myself for not reading it earlier. This is a wonderful story about not only an anti-hero but of a young man growing up without a real family and in the end learning right from wrong.

Sounds sappy? Well, it isn't. This is a masterfully told story with plenty of tongue-in-cheek humor. Told by Apropos himself we see learn his inner feeling and desires. The tale has you laughing one minute and rooting for Apropos the next. Almost all the other characters have something they are hiding and end the end the story comes full circle and leaves you with a sad, but...apropos...ending.

If by chance you avoided this novel because it was 'yet another fantasy story' (like I thought at one point) I think you'll be pleased upon reading it. I have ready plenty of stories that try to either be just like Tolkien or completely opposite, but always being compared in one way or another to those master tomes. Not this one, it is it's own creation and the author has full confidence in his own creation.

I whole-heatedly recommend this novel.


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Sir Apropos of Nothing Peter David 9780743412346 Books Reviews

The only reason I didn't give 5 stars is because I had no idea this is actually a comic book. I was after the full novel. But as it is it's a very good book, story flows well and brilliant illustration adds to the storyline. Certainly whetted my appetite for more!
Lots of inside jokes...Like about the man in black (and not Johnny Cash) and Harry Potter. If you like a sly short read, this is the one.
This book is a refreshingly easy read, full of quirky humor and puns. The hero is such an anti-hero that you have to like him. I would recommend it to all sci-fi/fantasy fans and witty nerds like me.
NOt usually a fan of graphic novels but great story and great graphics
Perhaps you've seen the bumper sticker that both warns and accuses Be Careful, I Drive Like You.

I think Apropos is an attempt to say, "Be careful, this protagonist acts like you." Apropos, the real you, is not a high-minded, noble hero, but someone looking out for number one. You might accept his sort of world-weary character in a hard-boiled detective novel a loser that "ain't taking no chances for nobody else," but saves the girl against his better judgment. Well, here he is in a fantasy setting. But his utter lack of virtue might put you off. "Of course I'd save the maiden," you say. But would you? Would you really? Or, "I'd never do anything like that to a friend!" Never? Not for anything?

Makes you wonder.
This books has the distinct honor of being a book best characterized by the phrase "Well, at least it can't get any worse..." ....except then it DOES. Witty, full of double entendres and puns, and a plot that will absolutely let your brain hurt this book is not to be missed.

It pokes fun at everything good about fantasy, presents it in a way that makes you say "...this might not be so bad" except then it IS.

I still loved it, and everyone I showed it to admitted that they couldn't put it down--including my one former friend who has a firm rule about reading unedifying material. It's damn catchy!
David's Apropos is a thoroughly unlikeable character, an anti-hero with nearly nothing to recommend him. David manages to run him through one situation after another to reinforce this impression, allowing Apropos to demonstrate, over and over, that he's a selfish manipulator who would betray a friend at the drop of a hat.
And yet ...
We can all relate to Apropos. I think most people wish, sometimes, that we could allow the bitterness of the past to rule our present actions, that we could use the excuse of "Well, other folks screwed me, so I'm gonna screw other folks first" to justify being right bastards to each other. If anyone has such an excuse, it's Apropos.
Therefore, that at times Apropos rises above his selfishness and self-serving ways to actually do good -- sometimes inadvertently, sometimes seized by a destructive fit of morality, sometimes because ... it's the right thing to do -- keeps this book from being a mere celebration of an anti-hero and gives us the same hope that we can rise above our own pettiness and greed, no matter how good the excuses for it are that we carry with us.
I'm not sure how soon I'll revisit Apropos. But I'll remember the final lessons he teaches.
For various reasons I have consistently avoided this book. However, with my choice of reading material being scarce of late (for equally various reasons) I decided to pick this one up and have a go at it. I must say that after finishing this novel I was kicking myself for not reading it earlier. This is a wonderful story about not only an anti-hero but of a young man growing up without a real family and in the end learning right from wrong.

Sounds sappy? Well, it isn't. This is a masterfully told story with plenty of tongue-in-cheek humor. Told by Apropos himself we see learn his inner feeling and desires. The tale has you laughing one minute and rooting for Apropos the next. Almost all the other characters have something they are hiding and end the end the story comes full circle and leaves you with a sad, but...apropos...ending.

If by chance you avoided this novel because it was 'yet another fantasy story' (like I thought at one point) I think you'll be pleased upon reading it. I have ready plenty of stories that try to either be just like Tolkien or completely opposite, but always being compared in one way or another to those master tomes. Not this one, it is it's own creation and the author has full confidence in his own creation.

I whole-heatedly recommend this novel.