I have not read this book

[james_davis_nicoll]

So this is not a review of the book. It is a review of the blurb intended to entice me to buy it.

I do not care for this blurb but am curious how other people react to it.

Comments

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

"Now they are halfway to another star in the gigantic spaceship Rolling Thunder, nearing the speed of light, when their father announces that the ship must be stopped."

Halfway? Near the speed of light? Why am I suddenly seeing Chico Marx in a fake beard?

"So now I tell you how we fly to America. The first time-a we start-a, we get-a half way across when we run out of gasoline and we gotta go back. Then I take-a twice as much-a gasoline. This time we were just about to land, maybe three feet, when what do you think? We run out of gasoline again. And back we go again and get-a more gas. This time I take-a plenty gas. Wella we getta half way over ... when what do you thinka happen? We forgota the airplane."

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Maybe their father just means it's turnaround time and they have to decelerate back down the rest of the way.
(Probably not)

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! Or, the ship is a sentient AI which has brainwashed the crew to be ditzy 1950s stereotypes, as in Charles Stross's "Glasshouse", and their father is recruiting them to lead an uprising!

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

"Now they are halfway to another star in the gigantic spaceship Rolling Thunder, nearing the speed of light, when their father announces that the ship must be stopped."

Since they're near the speed of light, they'll pull over and take some pictures. How often does the family visit the speed of light, anyway? Quiet down, girls, it's just a pit stop. Get out and stretch your legs, y'know? The star isn't going anywhere.