"I have been so many things. On every continent on Earth. And yet I have never found the life for me. I am resigned to being this way for ever. There will never be a life that I truly want to live for ever. I get too curious. I get too much of a yearning to live another way. And you don't need to make that face. It's not sad. I am happily in limbo."

The way I immediately felt so seen. This reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend of mine where the prompt was: "If you could choose 1 power, what would it be?" And I answered with immortality.

I don't want to leave this world, I don't want to miss out on all the books, tv shows, films, art and more that will come out long after I'm gone. I don't want to just stick to one thing for the rest of the only life I'll (probably) have. I want to travel the whole world, learn every language there is, study anything and everything I'm interested in, try every hobby and so much more. And the only thing holding me back is time. If only I had more time.

Okay, so...normally when books become incredibly popular and then become movies, and the hype is MASSIVE, I tend to run a mile in the opposite direction until that hype has calmed down and I can make my own opinions about it without the overshadowing of other people's opinions.... God am I so glad I didn't do that this time!

I'm only one chapter in but I am blown away by how excited I am about this book and the wild ride I'm about to embark on! I really did not expect this to be so wonderfully FUNNY!

Not in an over the top, trying to be a "this is a comedy book" kind of way, but in a humans are naturally ridiculous kind of way, and their reactions to things are even more so.... I mean this guy just woke up from what he presumes is a coma in what he thinks is a weird hospital with no memory and a computer talking to him, asking him what his name is...and somewhere along the line he's decided to make himself a sheet toga for clothes because he feels vulnerable and his response (because he can't remember what his name is) is to say in a deadpan voice "I am Emperor Comatose, kneel before me".

The narrator for this is just absolutely fantastic (Ray Porter)! His voice for this is a little reminiscent to me of Jeff Hayes doing Carl's voice from the Dungeon Crawler Carl book series, mixed with the humour and candence of Seth Mcfarlane's voice when he's playing Ed Mercer on The Orville TV show. Phenomenal start to this book!