101 True Tales of Hauntings, Demons, and the Paranormal
Ratings4
Average rating3.4
I have been watching BFU since it started. I loved Ryan's and Shane's antics and as soon as they left to do there own YouTube channel I continued to follow them there.
So when I saw that they had book coming out I immediately pr-ordered a copy. Then it finally came in the mail and I was kind of disappointed. I even got the audio book to see if it was any better, which was a little bit.
The Good
This book has a combination of places that Ryan and Shane had episodes on and including some that they have didn't have episodes. So it was fun to have there comments on new place.
If you get the audiobook they have a different narrator for the telling the story of the location. And a few times the narrator seem to indirectly acknowledge Shane and Ryan comments and response with a very dry humor.
There are also so very funny parts where they talk about how popular thing became or how something became a meme. The best is when they get to the Moth Man and jokes about how everyone is horny for him.
Bad
Though the idea of going back and forth between Shane, Ryan, and the narrator is funny it doesn't really happen as much as it could. Then each of the sections are somewhere between a 1 to 2 pages long. So basically you are getting a condensed of an episode which where already short to begin with.
I really wished they had talked about some behind the scenes, like what it takes to create an episode. Something like the ‘Unsolved Almost 70th Episode Retrospective'.
Theory One (and only theory)
I would not be at all surprised if this was just Buzzfeed's attempt to squeezes every last dime the can make out of Shane and Ryan. And I'm sure that The Ghoul Boys get some cut of the profit.
Overall if you like the show I think you'll enjoy it okay.