So I got a Kindle, now I'm reading crazy. 3rd review in one day.
This is pure unadulterated humor horror, or if you prefer, horror humor.
21 year old LSo I got a Kindle, now I'm reading crazy. 3rd review in one day.
This is pure unadulterated humor horror, or if you prefer, horror humor.
21 year old Lloyd, basement dweller, the kind of basement where the parents live upstairs and Mom does your laundry and makes you a homemade dinner each and every, gamer, slacker, loser, slob stumbles into a job at the local convenience store by day, demon mart by night.
It doesn't take long for the f-bombs to be flying along with some Cheetos mosquitoes, a wrestling loving gentle blob monster whose hero happens to be The Rock, a swanky succubus and many more anomalies that may/may not have the proper paperwork to exit the hell portal located in the beer cave for a night on the town. Lloyd's freaking out. Did I mention his co-workers, the cool ass kicking chick and the talking cockroach Kevin who's heavy into Dio? How about his boss, a suave snappy dressed demon who knows the soul of those, but pays well? The many awesome perks of the job?
This is what I put up with. Silly foolishness. Monsters galore. Otherworldly shenanigans and peculiarities. Lloyd has yet to read the work manual, and for all that is sacred, don't eat the damn donuts. I don't even want to know about the cleaners. Poor Lloyd. Reluctant cowardly antihero.
All out creature feature mixed with odd blood, odd guts, hell spiders, end of world scenarios, a dooms day leader who oops, get it wrong, slushies to the hearts content, OTT non stop funny business, and that humor I tend to lean to. It's all here and I was in my happy place from start to finish.
Theres a slew in this series. I know where to go when I crave a donut....more
I may have enjoyed this more if I owned a hookah. It does have clever wordplay, I'll give it that.I may have enjoyed this more if I owned a hookah. It does have clever wordplay, I'll give it that....more
Only a creative genius of the written word could invite me into the depths of the unreliable mind of a Humbert Humbert.
HumbeThis is not a love story.
Only a creative genius of the written word could invite me into the depths of the unreliable mind of a Humbert Humbert.
Humbert Humbert marries a woman to be close to her 12 year old girl child, Dolores. Mom dies. Humbert takes possession of his obsession and calls her Lolita. Told as memoir, smarty pants Humbert attempts to manipulate the reader into believing this is the greatest love story ever told. This is made clear to me by the last sentence of the book. How dare Nabokov to use such grand prose to lure one into this narrow world of a pedophile. Humbert is despicable. Yet there I was. Reading this, his memoir, I was uncomfortable. Yet there I was. Through Humbert's double entendres, dark humor, word play and delusion we see plainly his obsession and lust played out. Yet I was there. Dolores had no voice. Yet there I was. This man knew exactly what he was doing. He didn't want to be caught. Yet I was there.
I make no excuses. I read this because I wanted to. This was brilliant. And I was there....more
I was tired of waiting for a certain someone to finally finish the last installment of a certain work of written art. Still I wait.
So I said screw itI was tired of waiting for a certain someone to finally finish the last installment of a certain work of written art. Still I wait.
So I said screw it yet again and picked up Mistborn and company. I immediately left my comfortable life and for hundreds and hundreds of pages I was lost in this here Cosmere Universe. Great world building where a mysterious mist swirls in the night and ash covers the landscape by day. The Lord Ruler, a god in a sense rules with a heavy hand. A steep price is paid for disobedience. The magic system was cool. Metals are used to gain magical abilities by the few that are capable of such things. It is an advantage that works both ways.
The cast was large, but by design each distinct member had a pivotal role in what is to come and as I read more I became invested in each. My family knew at this point not to pester me with foolishness. I was no longer of this world.
Lots of imaginative beings of many forms live here. . From mistborns, mistwraiths, and giant blue monsters made to kill, to the more terrifying spiked eyed Steel Inquisitors. This is just a sampling of many.
Likables and unlikables alike get muddled as the story progresses. One little incident could change the trajectory of the storyline. It had me guessing who, what, why, where, and huh on numerous occasions.
Being fantasy this story is too intricate to get into here but don't be intimidated. With Sandersons easy writing style this clipped along at a good pace. I had no problem with mixing up the magics, characters, or situations. I didn't even need the reference pages. I did look at the map a few times, but I didn't have to Google any vocabulary. Well played, author.
I was immersed in this world for 3 weeks. I was happy there. Turmoil, war, politics, and severered limbs seems to be my happy place....more
A few things I didn't expect to be reading in this children's story. Embonpoint. Stumbling fairies going home from an orgy. Street fairies. One would tA few things I didn't expect to be reading in this children's story. Embonpoint. Stumbling fairies going home from an orgy. Street fairies. One would think this story is for big people....more
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