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ISBN:	1595829571 (ISBN13: 9781595829573)
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Jam

Yahtzee Croshaw

Paperback | Pages: 398 pages

Rating: 3.69 | 3693 Users | 373 Reviews

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Title	:	Jam
Author	:	Yahtzee Croshaw
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 398 pages
Published	:	October 23rd 2012 by Dark Horse (first published October 10th 2012)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Humor. Fiction. Horror. Comedy

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Like most people, I know Yahtzee primarily through his brilliantly scathing video game reviews. Here's a link for the uninitiated: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/video... When I found out that he'd written a book as well, I was curious. But honestly, I didn't have high expectations. I don't mean this as a dig. It's just that brilliance is not necessarily transferable. Just because Yahtzee can be funny, clever, and witty in a five minute review, doesn't mean that he can write a funny, clever, witty novel. No more than I could jump in and do his job and be good at it. All that aside, I was pleasantly surprised by the book. It was funny, well-written, and managed one of the most difficult tricks of all, which is to be ridiculous AND realistic. In my experience, a lot of people who write speculative fiction (Sci-fi, fantasy, etc) tend to make the same mistake. They think that the more weirdness the better. They feel like if their stories only have one piece of speculation in them, they're somehow cheaping out. It's as if people thing it's not enough to write an alternate history of Earth where, say, the Roman empire never collapsed. No. You have to change it so that everyone is talking Kangaroos with magic powers too. But this simply isn't true. Most of the time, adding one simple "what if" to the story is more than enough. If I had the chance to teach a class on writing speculative fiction, I'd use this book as an example of how that's true. The what if in question is, "What if you woke up and found that the world had been covered in two feet of carnivorous strawberry jam?" Does it sound corny? Yeah. But the truth is, it's a fucking good book. The best apocalypse stories I've read in ages. So good on you, Yahtzee. You clever, multifarious bastard you....

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What a great story. It was a creative ride full of laughs and clever ideas.

This was an excellent book. It felt like it sagged a bit in the middle, but only a little. "Will Save the Galaxy forFood" was better, but this was funny, thrilling, well constructed and with believable, three dimensional characters. The first few chapters and the last third of the book were fantastic. Definitely worth a read.

I woke up one morning to find that the entire city had been covered in a three-foot layer of man-eating jam. This is the first sentence in Ben Yahtzee Croshaws latest novel, Jam, and it sets the dark but comedic tone of the whole book. Its a book about an end of the world scenario that no one could have expected. Rather than include a cast of confident characters that have what it takes to survive, its about average people trying not to be killed by some man-eating jam. The style is well suited

It was a fairly fun read, although a bit of a disappointment as the LOL moments that pervaded every other paragraph of Mogworld were few and far between in Jam. 3.5/5 stars.

I suppose I'll start with a preface, because for once, who actually wrote this book is kind of important. For those of you who do not know, I am a huge fan of the ongoing Youtube video-game review series that goes by the name of Zero Punctuation. The host Ben "Yahtzee" Crowshaw, is a fast-talking Australian/Brit, who usually savagely rips apart video-games in a mix of crude and extremely witty humor that is flung at you at the speed of a machine gun. Basically, it's freakin' hilarious if you can

I'll start this off like just about everyone else who read this book: I'm a huge fan of Croshaw's Zero Punctuation series. It's biting, it's clever, and most importantly, it's absolutely hilarious. The thing I love the most, though, is that it shows Croshaw is smart. He understands gaming in a way that few do and beneath all the crass analogies and hilariously profane word combinations is a person who really "gets" gaming. He always has good reasoning for the way he feels about a game. And, more

Like most people, I know Yahtzee primarily through his brilliantly scathing video game reviews. Here's a link for the uninitiated: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/video...When I found out that he'd written a book as well, I was curious. But honestly, I didn't have high expectations. I don't mean this as a dig. It's just that brilliance is not necessarily transferable. Just because Yahtzee can be funny, clever, and witty in a five minute review, doesn't mean that he can write a funny, clever,