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Jam

By: Yahtzee Croshaw
Narrated by: Yahtzee Croshaw
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We were prepared for an earthquake. We had a flood plan in place. We could even have dealt with zombies. Probably.

But no one expected the end to be quite so... sticky... or strawberry scented.

Yahtzee Croshaw (Mogworld, Zero Punctuation Reviews) returns to print with a follow-up to his smash-hit debut: Jam, a dark comedy about the one apocalypse no one predicted.

©2012 Yahtzee Croshaw (P)2012 Yahtzee Croshaw Humorous Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Fiction Funny Witty Comedy Natural Disaster

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"[Croshaw is] able to pull off slapstick comedy in print, and that's no easy feat."–ComicsAlliance
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Great story, love yahtzee's humour, lots of swerves and interesting characters and an amazing performance.

brilliant

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This was good, it was different. I enjoyed the totally like ironic like mall murderers. I'm so here for Don and his usb, I say he was right, I didn't see some of the deaths coming at all, I was hoping it would be corny and Don could raise them all as his own so the 'nope!' was brave. Let's see what else... Mary was cute, take it from an arachnophobe. She'll take good care of Uncle Don.

Hepl!... Mabye... I 'unno ironically(6_6)

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I believe this was Crosshaw's first novel and I listened to it after enjoying his later works and can see he improved massively with greater practice. There's still good moments and sardonic humour however the plot is basic with glaring checkov guns and his narration is weaker than in others due to bad accents. The thing that almost completely made me stop listening is the terrible stupid decisions made by the main characters. One decision in particular made me literally pause the book and consider whether to continue as it seemed such a stupid thing to do and only done to introduce conflict. I get that the characters are supposed to be dim and useless however at one point one of them magically gains the ability to work high powered weaponry and operate an aircraft carrier by themselves.

Stupid stupid characters

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This might not be as well performed as the rest of his books but it was still a very enjoyable ride. I recommend listening on 1.3x, would've been 5 star otherwise

Overall pretty good

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Was really getting into this book for a while but honestly the cult almost made me want to stop. Felt like every time they appeared, it broke my engagement just for Yahtzee to give me a boring grammar lecture and rant about young people. Thankfully I'd say it got better at the end with an engaging tragic ending but I don't think it's one I'll listen to again.

ironically enjoyable

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