Science Fiction Book Review Podcast: Difference between revisions

* [[Caustic Critic]] : A subversion, since Luke is more than willing to judge a book on its own merits and highlight the good or original parts of it. But if a book is exceptionally badly written or [[Idiot Plot|convoluted]], [[Accentuate the Negative|he plays this trope straight]].

* [[Catch Phrase]] :

'''Luke''':"([[Flat What|And then I was like...]]) [[Who Writes This Crap?|Wait a second !]]"<br />

'''Luke''':"[[Every Episode Ending|...and I'll catch you next time !]]" }}

* [[Motor Mouth]] : Luke sure knows how to rant enthusiastically about the previous novel he read. He even directly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades this]] numerous times in his reviews.

** A March 2009 review of his podcast by SFX Magazine even referred to him as such, [[Invoked Trope|literally]] :

* [[Rape as Backstory]]: References it [[Discussed Trope|used badly]] during his pretty critical review of the first ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' novel. As he further explains, shoe-horning a rape into a female character's past is really [[Deus Angst Machina|not an ideal way of earning sympathy]] for said character (he considers it cheap and trite). He had the same opinion on the even poorer executed rape backstory of the female protagonist from Robert J. Sawyer's ''Hominids''.

* [[Reviews Are the Gospel]] : Averted. Luke had expressed his dislike for this type of approach several times already. He frequently reminds everyone about reviews being a subjective thing, not [[Serious Business]].