I love the rat queens. The first book was amazing, fresh and funny. The second book was fast paced and hilarious. Before I read the third volume I went back and re-read the second one. That when I realized it was like a whole new book. I couldn’t remember anything about it at all. Apparently this series quality is deteriorating. And fast. It’s been a week since I read the third one. And I can’t really tell you what it’s about. There is a bunch […]
It wore out its “welcome” almost immediately.
Ugh. There truly are not 250 words to say about this book. It came out in 2010, when these blog/website collections of things like passive aggressive notes or angry looking zoo animals or whatever were everywhere, and they kept getting book deals. I went through a period when I thought they were hilarious. I added a few to my Goodreads to-read list. I have a system for randomizing my next book, and when I come across one of these old “should’ve just been a website” […]
Ask a Manager: The Book
I found this book via recommendation in the comments of the “Ask a manager” advice blog run by Alison Green, and as soon as I got a few pages in it was pretty obvious why. This book is essentially that website in novel form. The plot is essentially Ender’s Game by way of Office Space; a corporate drone realizes that all the bureaucratic frustrations in his job have been artificially and intentionally inflicted on him, but the tone is solidly comedic. It’s an amusing if […]
Holy shitsnacks. So good.
Best for: Anyone who enjoys a great collection of essays. In a nutshell: Samantha Irby shares stories from her life that are at times so funny you’ll stop someone on the street to read a passage just so they can share in your joy. Line that sticks with me: “No one ever tells attractive children how much they suck, and then the rest of us get stuck with insufferable, narcissistic adults who can barely tie their shoes because someone else is busy either doing it […]
Am I out of breath from laughing or running?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that nothing good can come from reading. Let us observe Joel Cohen. Cohen, a writer for The Simpsons and noted couch potato, found himself under the spell of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run (reviewed by Halbs) and decided to take up running. When running didn’t kill him, he decided to run a marathon. See where reading leads you, dear reader? But it seems the damage is done for you and I, and if one must read, I can wholeheartedly […]
Not another thing, please
I forget where I read it, only that it is not my own observation, but someone put my most frequent problem with fantasy and sci-fi best: the more made up words it contains, the less likely I am to enjoy the book. This is a fairly short book that is long on nonsense. My eyes just glazed over half the text for a lack of intelligible prose to grab on to. A continuation of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series written by Douglas Adams, […]
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