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A review by haramis
Yesterday's Gone: Season One by Sean Platt, David W. Wright
1.0
If I quit books, I can tell you exactly when I would have quit this one. It was at 53%, and I had quite hit my "Ugh!" saturation. I don't quit books, however, so I slogged through endless pages of crap. This book is a giant pile of shit, and every time you think it is as smelly and disgusting as it possibly can get, the authors take another giant dump on the pile making it even grosser until it is completely unbearable.
By that, I mean that this book is a humorless, unmitigated series of unfortunate events that makes it dreary and unenjoyable. By the end, I was seriously experiencing physical nausea at the idea of reading any more of it. As other readers have mentioned, the worst part was the Boricio bits. I could have perhaps put up with it if his role was deemphasized, but the authors were clearly having a rollicking good time writing their serial killer and actually expand his poison into other characters. Fun. Speaking of serial killers, aren't they pretty much by definition psychopaths? Which means that they can't feel empathy, at all? Right, so some of the events toward the end are a stretch for me.
Oh, should I say something about all the lurid PA details? They're not fresh. You can see which various books and movies the scenes and characters were borrowed from, so let's add unoriginal to my stack of adjectives. Also, I can't tell if it was difficulty incorporating those borrowed images, or a desire for a stack of red herrings, or if the authors were just making it up as they went along, but the plot was all over the place like a schizophrenic rat.
I considered giving this two stars, because the first episode was pretty snappy, but let's be honest. I hated this, and I didn't want to finish it, so for me it is a one-star book.
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Kindle Lending Library, Feb '13, for Apoclaypse Whenever group.
By that, I mean that this book is a humorless, unmitigated series of unfortunate events that makes it dreary and unenjoyable. By the end, I was seriously experiencing physical nausea at the idea of reading any more of it. As other readers have mentioned, the worst part was the Boricio bits. I could have perhaps put up with it if his role was deemphasized, but the authors were clearly having a rollicking good time writing their serial killer and actually expand his poison into other characters. Fun. Speaking of serial killers, aren't they pretty much by definition psychopaths? Which means that they can't feel empathy, at all? Right, so some of the events toward the end are a stretch for me.
Oh, should I say something about all the lurid PA details? They're not fresh. You can see which various books and movies the scenes and characters were borrowed from, so let's add unoriginal to my stack of adjectives. Also, I can't tell if it was difficulty incorporating those borrowed images, or a desire for a stack of red herrings, or if the authors were just making it up as they went along, but the plot was all over the place like a schizophrenic rat.
I considered giving this two stars, because the first episode was pretty snappy, but let's be honest. I hated this, and I didn't want to finish it, so for me it is a one-star book.
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Kindle Lending Library, Feb '13, for Apoclaypse Whenever group.