Yahtzee Croshaw
Birth date: May 24, 1983
Yahtzee Croshaw's Books
A funny, campy adventure through space. A down-on-his-luck star pilot is hired to impersonate another star pilot to save the job of the personal assistant to a mobster. Little did he know the pilot he was hired to impersonate is the most hated pilot in the galaxy. But there's no backing out. "J...
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.
Because his books are so fun and accessible, many people who read Terry Pratchett's Discworld end up thinking "hey, this isn't so hard! I can write something like this, too!" They ignore just how truly difficult and impressive Pratchett's work is. It's chock full of memorable characters, surprisi...
Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw is a very silly fantasy book that reminds me of Terry Pratchett's Discworld in some ways except that it takes place inside of an MMORPG. The NPCs in the game become self aware and the main characters set out to find out what is going on when they observe outside forces do...
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