Phule Me Twice

Phule's Company, Book 4

By: Robert Asprin, Peter J. Heck

Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine

You can't mistake just anyone for a Phule.

When the planet Zenobia is invaded, Captain Willard Phule is made their military advisor. The first priority for Phule's Company: staying out from underfoot of the peaceful, dinosaurlike Zenobians....

But, unbeknownst to the Zenobians, they're getting two Phules for the price of one. A robot double of Phule appears out of nowhere. And only the real Phule knows who the real Phule is....

©2001 Robert Asprin (P)2017 Tantor

Classic story marred by jarring performance

I hate it when the performer mispronounces words. Perhaps the most jarring was the repeated mispronunciation of adjutant. There were others, several others. Every time it was done, I was ripped out of the story and brought back to the quality of the reading. Isn't there an editor who listens to these things? I checked a couple of major dictionary sites, the guy just read the words and guessed, albeit poorly, at the pronunciation of the words, and no one corrected him. Bah!

this is definitely freaky like Friday

so it's a really good book it focuses a lot more on the Omega mob as a whole rather than Captain phule but it is a little slow and hard to get into in my opinion at certain points . it's still really good and really funny especially towards the end when everything wraps up in a way that gives certain people I'm not going to mention any names( General blitzkrieg) their comeuppance for being total d-bags

didn't Phule me!

as expected from Mr Aspirin, witty, light, and entertaining! a fast paced scifi / comedy. I highly recommend the series to anyone that enjoys this genre.

Self absorbed spoiled children?

I am halfway through this book and I am struggling to stick with it. This group has gone from hardscrabble messes to a likable team oriented group of soldiers who look out for each other to…. Well, a bunch of self-centered spoiled children who whine about anything that doesn’t make them money or disrupts their now cushy lives. I really hope that this will turn out to be a’life lesson’ that they will learn from and grow out of because I am most definitely not rooting for most of them anymore.

Update: okay, I finished the book and it did get better. The focus turned from a bunch of people acting like spoiled brats (all at their captain’s expense) and they worked together to solve the problems that came along. They never did acknowledge that they were all spoiled by the captain’s money or show appreciation for it, though.

Humour

I love these. Light read. Laughs. Aliens. Robots. Army intelligence. What could go wrong?