Jam
We were prepared for an earthquake. We had a flood plan in place. We could even have dealt with zombies. Probably. But no one expected the end to be quite so . . . sticky. Or strawberry scented. Yahtzee Croshaw (Mogworld, The Escapist's Zero Punctuation Reviews (tm)) returns to print with a...
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We were prepared for an earthquake. We had a flood plan in place. We could even have dealt with zombies. Probably. But no one expected the end to be quite so . . . sticky. Or strawberry scented. Yahtzee Croshaw (Mogworld, The Escapist's Zero Punctuation Reviews (tm)) returns to print with a follow-up to his smash-hit debut: Jam, a dark comedy about the one apocalypse no one predicted.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781595829573 (1595829571)
ASIN: 1595829571
Publish date: October 23rd 2012
Publisher: Dark Horse
Pages no: 398
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Novels,
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
Science Fiction,
Games,
Horror,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic,
Video Games
Done for Sockpoppet's 2014 Reading Challenge, J is for Jokes I love Yahtzee Croshaw and I love his first book, Mogworld. But Jam felt like an extremely long joke, and hours after I finished reading it, I'm still waiting for the punchline. Maybe I'm just not being ironic enough.
I wish I didn't feel so "eh" about this book, but I think that's a pretty fair way of stating it, because it kind of puttered listlessly to an end in the same way that I'm puttering listlessly in this textbox. I'm not unfamiliar with the idea of populating a story with irritating or stupid character...
I wish I didn't feel so "eh" about this book, but I think that's a pretty fair way of stating it, because it kind of puttered listlessly to an end in the same way that I'm puttering listlessly in this textbox. I'm not unfamiliar with the idea of populating a story with irritating or stupid character...
I really liked it. Interesting premise, Australian setting and humorous writing. I do wish the protagonist had been a bit less spineless and that the ending had flushed out a bit more... Maybe we'll get a sequel, I'd definitely read it.
Yahtzee Croshaw is known to videogamers as that Australian guy who makes online video reviews for games using animated stick figures (a bit like those on warning signs) on a yellow background, that feature the odd bit of cursing, images of penises, and give you the idea that they're probably made ma...
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