Amazing book, very funny and insightful. If you've ever played D&D, you need to read this book. Girl or not!
This volume collects the first 14 issues of the ongoing series. Although it is mindless campy humor at the best of times, it was still entertaining to read in a juvenile sense. If you are looking for some mindless fluff to pass the time with, and like decent sex jokes mixed with crude violence and shout-outs to classic horror films and comics, then this will probably be right up your alley.
Final Girl Support Group is fun, but it made me wish it was written by a better author.
There's some really great ideas in there, and the cliff notes plot is really good, but the characters are one dimensional cardboard cut-outs of wet toilet paper.
This book is put forth as a cautionary tale, however anyone who has any experience at all with drugs can tell within the first 40 pages that many of the facts are wrong. Not only in the way the drugs are experienced, but even in the way they are taken.
Needless to say, when I discovered that this book was actually written by a mormon fearmonger, I was not surprised.
This book ruined my vacation, I couldn't put it down to enjoy the sights.
I bought this as a “beach read” but I would have read this masterpiece any time, any place. Please for the love of all that is holy, this needs to be a movie.
As this story is told from Alice's perspective, I expected to see some new insights into Alice's past or reasons for some of her actions, but unfortunately this book adds nothing new.
If you've already read the books (and you probably won't be looking at this unless you have), there's nothing new here aside from artistic changes in character appearances.
It was an enjoyable read, and made me itch to re-read the books (or catch up on the TV series), but ultimately this is simply a rehash of events we already know.
I picked up this anthology primarily to read the Terry Brooks contribution, and fell in love with Elizabeth Haydon's story. Her novels sometimes leave a bit to be desired, but if you only read one story of hers, make it this one.
Although the eponymous essay resonates with a certain valedictorian profundity, the rest of the book felt tacked on, almost as if the author was writing to meet a deadline, and wasn't given enough time to really solidify the ideas she was trying to establish. Which makes obvious sense, as this book was cobbled together from rambling essays and half-realized stories which were gathered up after her death. I am confident that if Marina hadn't died when she did, these stories could have been refined into something truly brilliant. On the other hand, one could argue that without an early death, these stories would have never reached us at all. But would that have been so bad?
This pseudo-script style is not for me. There's a reason books are not written like this; it's not fun, it's jarring and annoying.
Haven't finished it yet, but so far unimpressed.
I'm confused why everyone seems to love this book so much.
Aside from he plot tangling around itself, and the characters constantly quipping back and forth to each other in over the top sitcom manner, it's practically impossible to tell the characters apart without attribution. Early in the first chapter there's a long exchange between two characters of different genders, and even with that difference it was still extremely difficult to tell them apart. The dialogue is stiflingly bland and the humor falls flat more often than it succeeds.
I think that I would have enjoyed this book, as the humor and style is something that I would normally like very much, if the characters had a bit of variety to them.