Ratings20
Average rating3.2
In a world full to bursting with would-be heroes, Jim couldn't be less interested in saving the day. His fireballs fizzle. He's awfully grumpy. Plus, he's been dead for about sixty years. When a renegade necromancer wrenches him from eternal slumber and into a world gone terribly, bizarrely wrong, all Jim wants is to find a way to die properly, once and for all. On his side, he's got a few shambling corpses, an inept thief, and a powerful death wish. But he's up against tough odds: angry mobs of adventurers, a body falling apart at the seams — and a team of programmers racing a deadline to hammer out the last few bugs in their AI. *Mogworld is the debut novel from video-game icon Yahtzee Croshaw (Zero Punctuation)! With an exclusive one-chapter preview of Yahtzee Croshaw's next novel, Jam—coming to bookstores in October 2012! *Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's video review site, Zero Punctuation, receives over 2,500,000 unique hits a month, and has been licensed by G4 Television. *Yahtzee's blog receives about 150,000 hits per day. "The first legitimate breakout hit from the gaming community in recent memory." -Boing Boing
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While initially I was a little wary to read something so outside of my normal reading sphere, I was almost immediately rewarded with endless chapters of knee-slapping humour. The characters are flawed in so many ways its nearly impossible not to find them endearing and interesting. They are so different from each other and yet their dynamic works seamlessly. I really, really enjoy this book! The premise was captivating, the writing style felt effortless and drew me in instantly and best of all I got so many laughs out of it. Thanks Yahtzee for a great read!
Hrm. What to say about this book. I enjoyed the idea of the book more than the book. By the 50% mark I found myself skimming sections only to go back when something suddenly changed. I kinda knew how things would end by then, I really wanted to see what happened next, but found the book was really dragging on.
I wanted to like it way more than I actually liked it.
I did enjoy all the characters though, and the overarching story, just wish some of the middle chunks were more exciting or removed.