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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.Growing up with eccentric materialist parents, who left him in the care of his grandfather for a job overseas, Zhang Heng had learned to adapt and be unfettered by the oddities and challenges in life. But he would soon learn the baffling truth about the world he thought he knew, when one day at midnight, time froze and he found himself in a world so quiet and still it was deafening. That night, he discovered that he had 24 hours more than everybody else and thus, marked the beginning of his adventures. The mysteries surrounding his newfound ability only deepened when a strange old man claimed to have given Zhang Heng that ‘gift of time’ and recruited the young man to participate in a cryptic ‘life-changing’ game on his behalf. Little did Zhang Heng know that accepting those terms meant embroiling himself in many versions of reality and exposing himself to the hidden secrets of the world—a decision he could never undo.
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One entry per lineI Have 48 Hours a Day
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This is a well-written and well-translated modern day novel, blending the magical realism of "Groundhog Day" with heavy topics of isolation, loneliness, survival and man's quest for meaning.
Unquestionably 5 stars.SUMMARYProtagonist Zhang Heng, a quiet introspective college student, comes across a mysterious watch that grants him a form of time dilation where he gets more hours in a day. He is dragged into a greater conspiracy of otherworldly competitions, thrust into various realistic scenarios in human history, while trying to figure out the meaning and consequences of his powers. CHARACTERS
MC is a stoic, yet open minded and adaptable youth. His daily routines of self-improvement and varied interests makes him a believable modern-day Renaissance Man, the perfect character to receive time dilation powers and experience the sheer variety of competitive situations (unlike the MC from "Everyone Else is a Returnee"). Every competition plays out like episodes of Man vs Wild to Urban Survivor, where the MC must find a way to accomplish mission objectives while getting himself situated. The various characters the MC meets during his "episodic" missions are incredible as well. The author's writing style and talent REALLY comes through here as he spends time setting up the hyper-detailed environments for the reader. There's little background info on the side characters, since their reactions and perspectives to their current circumstances are so believable, you're able to mentally craft who and what their motivations are. Great example of show-don't-tell. Heavy spoilers..
Ed, an optimistic veteran soldier of various conflicts teaches the MC survival skills and the oft-forgotten mental aspects of it too.
Simone, a young Finnish girl, drafted as an ace-sniper in WWII, hardened by conflict, and slowly coming to care for the MC as they survive through the horrors of war.
For once, you actually see an MC that mentally ages due to time dilation!!
Severe isolation from a deserted island, seeking companionship to recover mentally.
PTSD from extended time in conflict.
Author went off on a wild tangent with a marathon Age of Sail arc and received widespread criticism from readers.
He completely changed the style of writing, including ridiculous fillers of people sitting around doing pointless dialogue and exposition, awarded excessive pointless POV time to various characters, and essentially rewrote the novel into one big Pirates-of-the-Caribbean story without any real impact on the greater plot. And finally topped it off with an epic counter-rant against critics around Chapter 250+. Incredibly disappointing. Chapter 250+
While author redeemed himself with a much better written arc on the
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- Calm and collected MC. Interesting time-based cheat being that the extra 24 hours apply to the cryptic life changing game in the novel description.
- Abject lack of racism to the point where its uncomfortable. It's weird saying this, but seeing Japanese people portrayed in a positive light in a Chinese novel feels really strange.
- The MC gets close to a couple of characters but nothing really happens as they seem to be temporary fictional entities. In real life, its too early and barely anything has happened so far.
So far so good. It seem a bit slow and directionless at times, but this is just the start of the story.-
- Both MCs are extremely calm, logical and calculated
The main difference however is that 48hrs does a better job of addressing the effects of how time spent in the virtual world affects reality, which DC completely neglects. In this novel, when returning from extremely long dungeons, it mentions how the MC has to adjust socially and get his temperament under control, especially since it's clear that he's changed based on his friends' observations. That being said, I think it could have improved on this further such as having the MC make notes or summarize his current life in reality before entering the next dungeon, so that he can pick up where he left off since only hours pass in real life. The MC is somehow able to do this anyway, but honestly shouldn't be able to since little details or conversations that happened years ago shouldn't be fresh on his mind, and it isn't mentioned how he accomplishes this. What's interesting is that the temperamental effects of the dungeon aftermath are effectively mitigated by the MC's gradual loss of emotions, which means that his personality doesn't fluctuate much either in the virtual or real world. However, a side effect of having an emotionless MC is that the novel itself is fairly emotionless. The intensity stays in a pretty constant range, with there never being any strong or heart-clenching moments. I don't think I ever felt sad or felt like I was at the edge of my seat. Because of the MC's temperament, you know that regardless of how a situation escalates or devolves, the MC will find a neat and logical way to wrap things up. Something refreshing to point out was how the novel doesn't play into the common tropes you might see, such as how after acquiring certain skills or knowledge, the MC doesn't actually go out of his way to flex them (or isn't even given the opportunity because the novel doesn't create such blatant coincidences). Another example of a trope that's avoided is how when a modern day person travels to a historical period, they somehow retain perfect knowledge of how to build certain household/military items, where no actual average person unrelated to it's design or production should ever really know. It even mentions this in the novel, which was I could appreciate, because it made it easier to step into the MC's shoes and understand how to handle a situation from his perspective. A specific example is:-
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I've seen some contentious reviews about the various arcs, but honestly, I enjoyed almost all except for the Lego one, since I suddenly felt like I was reading a kids novel. What I strongly disliked though, was the unnecessary historical info dumps in some cases. Most turned out fine, but the historical Japan arc was horrendous. I think I skimmed about half of it because of all the unfamiliar and unnecessary names of eras/people/places/dojos etc. It was definitely one of the worst arcs for that reason alone. It would have been better if the MC just put this all in footnotes or even just dropped a wikipedia link or some equivalent instead. Another thing I disliked was how the author chose to hide information that the MC himself is given, such as the names of items or Gods in certain scenarios. It was obviously to make the reveal more dramatic but I felt cheated, as if I was purposely singled out of a group huddle.His first mission is the island survival mission, where he literally knows how to do nothing and doesn't have coincidental knowledge for the scenario. Instead he uses wits and struggles to improve and learn. After the mission, he goes on a camping trip with friends. With any other novel, you'd expect that the MC would suddenly show off godlike skills, but he actually doesn't do that and tries to fit in with the crowd. He sticks to his goal of being as low-key as possible unless a circumstance deems it necessary.
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That being said, I'm not sure of an alternative method to build up tension for the reveal based on how the novel was structured, but I wish this method wasn't chosen. Addressing some of the negative aspects of the story itself, there are also a few plotholes such as:I can't think of everything off the top of my head, but one example that comes to mind is the book that Asaka's other Japanese friend (the thousand-faced God) left on the bookshelf for the MC to find. It was probably a book relating to Cthulhu, but this is also an issue because it's not clear how or why the MC identified it as a book that shouldn't be there, since there has been no mention of Cthulhu at this point.
How much the gods are able to spy on the MC. There are times when the MC does stuff where the bartender, Chronos, etc seem to be clearly apprised of every small the thing the MC does but it's not apparent how they're able to do this. Are other gods able to do it too? Why or why not? It makes some of the overworld setups the MC does when fighting against them a bit sus, because it's not really clear what the gods are capable of.
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With all the being said, I think the novel was really well executed. All loose endings are well wrapped up, the MC isn't inundated with dozens of skills like in other novels and instead makes good use of the few he has, and items are generally also made decent use of, with the others having been sold off (although some are never used despite being identified as useful by the MC, but this isn't unlike real life where you wouldn't necessarily use of everything you do have unless a situation calls for it). I also like how when situations are resolved, it actually makes sense compared to how things were in Devil's Cage, where even after being told the solution you were left wondering wtf happened. I haven't talked about the novel idea of a 24hr time-stop ability and the various interesting ways it's used, but I think this is well addressed in other reviews. Overall, I'd rate this a 4.5/5. I read the last 200ish chapters through MTL, so it's possible I missed some things in translation resulting in some of the above negative points being less impactful, but this was still a pretty great novel that I enjoyed and would recommend.Towards the end, the MC is identified as the greatest threat which could destroy the world i.e. Cthulhu's container. Everyone mentions that it's acceptable to sacrifice an innocent person to save the world, yet they don't really consider holding his friends or family hostage. There was one event where a strike teams holds a little girl that the MC healed hostage, but it was easily resolved by Chronos. Felt unrealistic given the MC took next to no measures to protect them, and considering his personality had been profiled to show that he does care for his family and friends.
As the book progresses, the MC clearly has done a lot of research on the various gods to keep him well prepared to deal with them, but it's strange that he never researches Cthulhu or mentions any Lovecraftian literature. It's made known that the more knowledge one has of it, the faster one goes insane (or gets taken over in his case), but it's strangely avoided by the MC and it's not clear why since he hasn't been warned and also hasn't revealed any hunch as to his own identity earlier on in the book.
If you are searching for quick power trip then this isnt for you. If you read this thoroughly you will understand this novel has good story even though author might have balantly copied some arc from some story. Rating this novel below 4 is insanity I mean yea there all flaws but which novel doesnt? What I liked is very good utilization of mc's power and plot is intricate no brainless stuff has happened yet. World has been built according to the premise author has presented from the begginning. I cant fathom why anyone will rate this below 4 unless they are still salty about ending of their previous novel. Or they simply like agt and mga
I wish he'd bring Annie out of the game world, or revisit it with the item he bought.
- While women typically have their own motivations, most of them wouldn't mind getting a piece of the main character.
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Overall, very worth the read. Hopefully, the translation is completed soon.I thought that the Lego mini-arc was going to be boring beyond belief, but despite the absurdist humor - it introduced a cool mechanic and set the stage for Fan Meinan to be a more important character.
Although I eagerly await an explanation for Pestilence.