Like all my little reviews, I don’t want to give away too much of the story, because I of course want you to listen to the book yourself.

Just know that the premise of this particular one makes it one of my all-time favourite books.

I’ve listened to this book a good 9 times or so, and for some reason have never written a review.

The book was so good, that I immediately bought everything else in this series, and then everything they had available for Scott Meyers.

So what the hell is it about in the end?

This is the story about a guy, called Martin Banks, who finds a file that essentially informs him that life is a computer program.
He can edit this file to effectively do whatever he wants, after which when inevitably chased by the feds because he decided to favourably edit his bank account details, he decides to transport himself back to medieval England and use his powers in such a way that makes him seem like a wizard.

Great concept right?

There he meets other people who have found the file and then it continues.

What is incredible about this book though is that unlike many other books whereby the story starts right from the start or at the very latest, a quarter of the way through the book / movie, and by story I mean the procession of events which ultimately culminate in the ending of the episode/ book/ movie whatever; ‘Off to be the Wizard’ s story only really starts 3 quarters of the way through the book.

Now many people may find that strange…and it sure is different but what it does in the meantime is lets you explore all the possibilities of the premise of the ‘power’ and what the character can actually do. You learn about the character, his/ her personality and go through step-by-step them exploring this power or situation, and it’s actually very interesting.

Since this book, I’ve had a couple of books that do things similarly, for example ‘We are Legion (We are Bob)’, and I really love that style of book to be honest.

It’s a light-hearted kind of story, and with Luke Daniels doing the narration its just a pleasure to listen to. It’s fun, funny, adventurous, everything I look for in a book.

One thing that I’ve been quite surprised about is that many stories I’ve listened to recently reference many other stories and add them into their own.  For example this particular book references Tolkin a lot, and adds actual hobbits and orcs in the story.

Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline which is another incredible book by the way, references pretty much every single awesome TV show and video game you grew up with.

I would love to know how they get away with that, because if things become movies… suddenly you’re not allowed to do that I don’t think.

Plus a story like this wouldn’t work very well as a movie, or even a TV show, there’s too many inner dialogues and subtleties, and whilst the actual story is fantastic, I feel its explored in exactly the right speed as has been done in the book.

Anyway, I would recommend this to almost everyone, it’s not difficult to understand, its funny and light-hearted.  Seriously, anyone would enjoy this book.

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