by Yahtzee Croshaw
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...
This is a fun, quite ridiculous, apocalypse story. As you can expect from Yahtzee, if you've seen his videos, the writing is very clever and engaging.Definitely worth the read.
How to describe this book... it follows all the typical tropes of the disaster/horror movie. Something terrible has happened and most of the people in our setting are gone. A small band of survivors has to work together to try to survive the event and try to find a way out of the situation - assumin...
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