Yahtzee Wrote a Book
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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I read the first few "pages" before realizing it wasn't for me, the writing style just doesn't flow - it was really clunky and difficult to read - furthermore, it just wasn't funny - which is odd because I find most of Yahtzee's written work on his site to be hilarious. I'll give the extract another go sometime, if only to confirm I was right, but I won't be getting this - not that I was planning to anyway.
It's a shame because the concept is really interesting, as is some of the content presented.
It's a shame because the concept is really interesting, as is some of the content presented.
He used to write for PC Gamer - how is that kind if journalism (as in, ability to form intelligible sentences) any different from another kind of journalism?HuCast said:afaceforradio said:
Video game journalist.
Totally different cup of tea
Yeah, that was in the original article. Got it. I just don't want to read a subset of the book weeks before I can read the whole thing.Skoldpadda said:
I'm still going to pick it up and read it, I mean, it's Yahtzee, c'mon!Soylent Bacon said:
However, I, too, share your concern for it being full of missed MMO references as I've played very few (mostly City of Villains/Heroes, but that was some time ago) and when I did I often didn't get all the slang.
As for it being in 1st-person, I love that. One of my favorite novel series', The Dresden Files (by Jim Butcher) is written in 1st-person and they're great. So few stories are written this way so I find I enjoy them all the more (except for Kat Richardson's "Greywalker", which I recently read and loathed.)
Do you mean to tell me that you can preorder Yahtzee's book from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk?SteelStallion said:
More to the point though I would pay good money for an unabridged audiobook (read by the author). I have very little time to actually read sadly. Though due to the all the travel my job affords me I have tons of time for audiobooks. In the last year Ive listened to all 14 Wheel of Time books, all 4 of the Song of Ice and Fire books, and am currently on the third book of the Mistborn trilogy.
Metal Brother said:
Oh well, it's a handy way of trying before buying.
I, for the record, have decided not to buy. The writing feels too awkward. But I wish the man much success. God knows there's far worse things out there making a mint.
I don't think it's particularly bad, it's just that I couldn't really get into it and I'm not entirely sure what the story is. Yes I know it's supposed to be life in an MMO or something along the lines of that, but why is Jim undead? Why is he following that girl around (or is it visa versa)? It would probably help if I've read the first chapter, but I still don't find it all that engaging so far.OANST said:
But what do I know? Maybe it gets a million times better in the next chapter. But so far, I just think it's ok with some ok humor.
