This was the best fart/poop/butt joke book collection I’ve ever read that also happens to have a plot. Despite it not being exactly everything I hoped it would be, this book had me about three pages in when the heroine (ordering fast food while sitting in her self-driving car) contemplates how did people ever “eat their car chili” if they had to keep their hands on the steering wheel. This girl clearly has her priorities straight. If the future allows me to eat car chili while cruising down […]
The Space Time Continuum Is Collapsing in a Delightful Romp
It is inevitable that I start by comparing To Say Nothing of the Dog to Doomsday Book, the other Connie Willis novel I recently reviewed. Though very much related in that involves the same delightful Oxford time travel team, this is a very different story, much more a light-hearted romp through Victorian England with references to mystery novels of that time (and later times). In spite of how very different the tone of the book is, I loved it as well. It’s like Doctor Who–some episodes are fun and […]
Cerebral palsy, the sexiest of the palsies.
Firstly, whether or not you end up reading Zach Anner’s book, it’s definitely worth a trip over to YouTube to check out some of his videos. (Might I recommend this one, this one, and this one?) The guy is goofy and slyly funny. It’s always a happy day when one of his videos shows up in my inbox. He’s the kind of guy who decides to create a video series where all he does is give people virtual high-fives. Often he’ll make a joke that […]
If You Met the Devil In Person, Would You Notice His Horns?
This book kept popping up on my Amazon account as a recommendation so I thought I would give it a shot. It’s not bad. The afterlife is overcrowded and measures are taken to improve the situation. Those measures fail and the Devil gets fired. He ends up in a medium sized city in England living in an apartment and harassing his flatmates. I didn’t quite understand why they were introducing themselves as flatmates which I always thought was synonymous with roommate, when they lived in […]