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[Stars]

So apparently Yahtzee has written a novel and successfully gotten it published. It will be available on August 2, and he very unsubtly mentioned at the end of his latest review video that it can be pre-ordered at Amazon.

[Maelstrom]

kk... but what's it all about? If I knew what he'd be tearing into satirical pieces (i mean, what else could he being doing?), I'd have an easier time deciding if I should buy it and read it. Much less preorder. Cuz yeah, there' no description I saw there on your link.

[Stars]

Cuz yeah, there' no description I saw there on your link.

Look harder. =p

Product Description

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). Mogworld is a comic fantasy novel in the tradition of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, with a video-game twist: the main character is a minor character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

It very much sounds like something he would write.

[Maelstrom]

And it actually sounds pretty damn awesome too. *adds to booklist of books to buy when they come out*

[Donkeymog]

Got a bit of a Tim Schafer vibe going on there.

I enjoy Yahtzee's review but I doubt this will be anything more than a throw-away read sadly.

[Stars]

Woah, this has been out for 3 weeks, and I forgot all about it. =o
Now I just have to decide whether or not I care enough to buy it.

EDIT: Huh, never mind. Looks like the date got moved up to September 14.

[Stars]

I know this is a bit old, but the book was listed in an email I got from Amazon, so I'm thinking about it again.

I still haven't read this thing, but I found a lovely customer discussion comment while looking at the reviews, and I wanted to share it.

If it's awesome, then I get to read an awesome book, once it is revealed that it is awesome and I buy it. If it is horrible, then I get to see Yahtzee brutally savaged by critics.

I can't lose.

Maybe I'll get it if/when I run out of things to read. Or if enough people assure me that it's the bee's knees.

[Stars]

Jam, Yahtzee's second novel, will be coming out this October. "It's about an apocalypse...with jam in it."