Bushlas

one of my all time favorite books. It made me laugh and cry. The action was just right. The fight seems we’re just long enough. The philosophy and the comedy really mesh well, which is difficult to do well.

oh boy! Was I NOT the target audience for this book. One of the myriad goals of this book is to assuage philosophical scepticism about the world (maybe virtual world, who knows? another point of this book). My uneducated understanding of this book involves something like this:

“Look, bro. The reality may be virtual, I dunno. But if it is, which is probabilistically likely... no, shut up! I am not overthinking... anyway, it is likely that it is virtual, and if so don't be a loser sceptic about it, okay? Virtual things are real, kind of... I mean what is reality anyway, am I right? But be cool and don't be a sceptic, wondering what the point is if there was never really a spoon in the first place, and that the foundational reality of your experiences can never be confirmed to exist with any type of certainty. That is pointless. Unlike this book, which, you know, says the world is virtual, but who cares because virtual things are real.”

a very satisfying conclusion to this series

one of the best isekai I have read.

Simply perfect.