Sign in with Facebook
Tatiana's Reviews > Zombicorns
Zombicorns
by
by
Is there a reason why this had to be written from a female POV? I am asking because I would have never guessed the narrator was a girl if it wasn't specifically mentioned in the story. In fact, for the 1st quarter of the novella I was sure it was being narrated by a guy, and even after that point Mia remained more of a Michael to me.
Plus, if you are sure your work is crap (see the book description), why would you encourage readers to pay $25 for it? Just because it has your name on it? If you want to help a cause why not put your best effort into it? I just don't get the logic here.
Otherwise, Zombicorns is a decent novella, but it lacks a firm intention. Like the author noted himself, something about this story is too muddy in the middle. Whatever he was trying to get to with the corn part didn't come through.
Plus, if you are sure your work is crap (see the book description), why would you encourage readers to pay $25 for it? Just because it has your name on it? If you want to help a cause why not put your best effort into it? I just don't get the logic here.
Otherwise, Zombicorns is a decent novella, but it lacks a firm intention. Like the author noted himself, something about this story is too muddy in the middle. Whatever he was trying to get to with the corn part didn't come through.
Sign into ŷ to see if any of your friends have read
Zombicorns.
Sign In »
Reading Progress
January 28, 2011
– Shelved
January 10, 2012
–
Started Reading
January 12, 2012
– Shelved as:
2012
January 12, 2012
– Shelved as:
dystopias-post-apocalyptic
January 12, 2012
– Shelved as:
short-stories
January 12, 2012
– Shelved as:
ya
January 12, 2012
–
Finished Reading
Comments Showing 1-25 of 25 (25 new)
date
newest »
newest »
message 1:
by
Cassie
(new)
Jan 29, 2011 08:14AM
Oh man, I'm curious as well!
reply
|
flag
I have no idea what it is, but it's available to read for free, so I'll check it out.
linkalicious? Also, sometimes you find the coolest books.
hahaha! John Green does vlogs with his brother that has a pretty large following. I think this may be a result of a "punishment" that his brother and the fans of the vlog thought up for him. But don't quote me on that.
Kat wrote: "linkalicious? Also, sometimes you find the coolest books."This was popular with our GR crowd a couple of months ago, someone else brought it to light. I am just slow to catch up.
Tatiana wrote: "Kat wrote: "linkalicious? Also, sometimes you find the coolest books."This was popular with our GR crowd a couple of months ago, someone else brought it to light. I am just slow to catch up."
Actually, it took me a year (?) to catch up?
Thomas wrote: "Wow look how excited I was. Calm down, Thomas of the Past."How flighty we are!
Wow I went and nabbed this one too, can't resist that title. :)
For most of it I was convinced it was a male narrated. Totally threw me for a loop when I found out it was a girl!
Even when the narrator mentioned having sex with a guy, I was sure it was a m/m scenario.
To clear up any confusion Samantha is on the right track with why the book was written in the first place. If I'm remembering correctly John wrote this as an exercise for NaNoWriMo. I'm not totally sure it was ever meant to see the light of day but it was offered as an Nerdfighter incentive prize for charity donations. It was later put out for free when other core Nerdfighters wanted to read it. It's meant as a joke novella, and wasn't really meant to be taken seriously but I think a bit of confusion arose when other people started reading it for reals-ies. :)
It doesn't exactly read like a joke though. The corn part is quite satirical, yes, but as a whole it's not that funny actually.
Yes, I know, I feel like we've gotten caught in semantics. (I meant it as joke non-serious, rather then joke-haha) The comment was more about "why would you encourage readers to pay $25" aspect of your review, rather then the plot itself. :)
Oh, I see. $25 is a bit steep of a request though, even for a good cause.
That's probably one of the reasons it was relased for free but there were a number of different prizes at different price points so they weren't trying to shake you down to bad. :P
I don't know why I am even complaining, cause I read it for free:) But his note at the beginning of this novella annoyed me too much.
Nah, I can dig. This conversation also reminded me that I hadn't added this to my list yet. Now, I really want to see what all the fuss is about.
It was written for a book challenge where you have to write a novel in a month
John Green is half of a huge YouTube channel called the vlogbrothers, and on the channel he challenged viewers to donate to his charity to decrease world suck, and at every my marker he or his brother (the other half of the vlogbrothers) would do something as incentive for donating more money. This novella was one of those things
In regard to your comment, John wrote this in a month, so that's great, and he wrote it for a charity. So, the nerdfighters were not paying for the book, but for the satisfaction of donating to charity (and getting this great novella) DFTBA :)
He has lots of other books, which are fantastic, and this was just to raise money for a charity. That's why it's $25.
Yeah... It's kinda for fun and just for charity, so this is awesome compared to what most people do. He's amazing :)DFTBA
Concerning the $25 part: He was just using this book as another way to get people to donate to charities. That part of the introduction might have been written for the 1 person who was supposed to win this for donating to charity.
its john green if you really could understand his love for books then you would but your a piece of crap so you wouldn't
