Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: A Book by Patton Oswalt
by:
Patton Oswalt (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781442335479 (1442335475)
Publish date: January 4th 2011
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Edition language: English
For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleThis is the first book I have read by Patton Oswalt. Overall a pretty good book. The book reads like part-memoir, part-stand up comedy. Sometimes it works better than at others, but for the most part it's a funny book. It's a bit disjointed and sporadi...
Part comedy, part memoir, part filler. Put them together and you end up with a grey goo, and not very tasty. Adding "read by Patton Oswalt and Michael Stipe" is like adding a sprig of parsley or a mint to the goo - slightly improved, but still goo.I enjoyed some of the memoir bits, especially descri...
Weird...very, very weird but that's why I love Patton Oswalt. He does what the best comedians do: he makes his life funny! Hope he writes more. Being a D&D nerd, my favorite stories of course are the D&D ones. The epic poem for his old character was hilarious! The runner-ups for best stories are (a)...
Books by stand-up comedians tend to start strong and peter out as the author looses interest, but Oswalt saves some of his strongest material for the end. The book is hilarious, but the audio version is a strange masterpiece. The chapter "Wines by the Glass" as performed by Oswalt is as funny as a...
meh. I prefer his stand-up. Not really worth my time. Fortunately, it was a quick and easy read.
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