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"You have a 98.4% chance of enjoying this book" Nick Smith has written a book that makes RPGs (role playing games) come to life. You will find that once you pick this book up, the motive to continue reading it will remain in the 700-800 range for the entire duration of the book, making the urge to finish the book more important than most other tasks except perhaps going to the bathroom. During your reading adventure, 54 hours and 52 minutes will pass in book time. Of course you may finish the book faster than this, but at a hefty 258 pages I would not recommend attempting to finish it in less than 2 hours, because this would require you to read roughly 645 words per minute (300*258/120), or more.

The main character is Knuckles, a purple (A0000E0) humanoid who solves mysteries. I don't want to give away too much of the plot, but if you enjoy spell casting and gliding at speeds of up to 800 miles per hour, you will probably like the story line.

"Re: The great american novel comes to fruition? " Excellent review, Brad. My motive is now in the 800 range (light blue color), and I will be thanking you for writing such a stirring review rooted in post-structuralist ideology in my mind game while we are using float run to blast up Ice Cap Mountain!

"The great american novel comes to fruition? "
Nick Smith's excursion into the literary arena represents a pivotal moment for American culture and civilization. In creating his novel, "The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters", Smith throws out all conventional ways and approaches to artistic expression and replaces them with new structures and processes of analyzing the age-old problematic thoughts brought about by human conflict, identity and belonging.

Smith manages to do this by utilizing a multi-disciplinary, consilient approach (which Faulkner would be proud of) by synthesising elements of American popular culture such as roleplaying games and super powers. In Sartre's... More >re's existentialist tradition, Smith utilizes the elements available in his times and environment to revalidate and giving meaning to what had become a meager existence, while at the same time elevating & liberating the rest of humanity to another level of meaningful existence.

Examples of this new paradigm of human expression abound in this ouevre. From the cover, which shows our protagonist manipulating the spheres which symbolize the possibility of humanity's ability to break away from the circular oppression that enslave us all and prevent us from leading a truly meaningful existence, to his aptly named chapter, "A pizza break" which utilizes his hunger for degreased cheese pizzas as a metaphor for the conflict between a superficial and unfulfilling material existence and a meaningful and rich human spiritual existence. This truly is a paradigmatic change that T. Kuhn would find exemplary.

This is a seminal must for any one's reading collection, for it is destined to be a classic and the topic of scholarly and intellectual discussions for quite some time.

Five stars is not enough to show the importance of this novel. Perhap all the stars in the Ursa Major constellation would be more fitting. < Less

This novel is sheer genius. Nick Smith boldly reinvents the literary form, creating a gestalt blend of fantasy, insanity, mathematics, and narrative. Without a doubt this is the most innovative book I have ever read. A must own for anyone interested in avant-garde outsider literature.

Forever I have been looking for a book that can be described as uncannily written, with the kind of engrossing story line and captivating characters that I feel like I can actually relate to, despite knowing that they're simply works of fiction. Yesterday I recieved this book in the mail and I couldn't wait to open it. I literally could not put it down until I finished it, unlike every other book i've read this year. Amazing book.