zaratustra reviewed Differently Morphous by Yahtzee Croshaw
Review of 'Differently Morphous' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Basically: Remember the Ghostbusters movie? What if the EPA hadn't immediately exploded their setup and both of them were forced to work together to actually build a proper ghost handling protocol? That's this book, but for demons, shoggoths and wizards.
Starts reasonably well, the middle is weighed down by Yahtzee's atrocious caricature of a liberal government agent (made even more absurd by the fact we're supposed to believe this liberal, tree-hugging, immigration-friendly government is the UK government) and the end third wants to weave in so many twists one can't help but think "oh that's where the suspect roulette ended on. ok"
Ethically, the book tries to support a half-point between authoritanism and liberalism, the two endpoints of human thought. This makes it Apolitical, i suppose. Both the fans of concentration camps and the people that honestly use "identify as" in regular conversation have valid points. Yep.
Just realized …
Basically: Remember the Ghostbusters movie? What if the EPA hadn't immediately exploded their setup and both of them were forced to work together to actually build a proper ghost handling protocol? That's this book, but for demons, shoggoths and wizards.
Starts reasonably well, the middle is weighed down by Yahtzee's atrocious caricature of a liberal government agent (made even more absurd by the fact we're supposed to believe this liberal, tree-hugging, immigration-friendly government is the UK government) and the end third wants to weave in so many twists one can't help but think "oh that's where the suspect roulette ended on. ok"
Ethically, the book tries to support a half-point between authoritanism and liberalism, the two endpoints of human thought. This makes it Apolitical, i suppose. Both the fans of concentration camps and the people that honestly use "identify as" in regular conversation have valid points. Yep.
Just realized this book, attempting to present a cool and apolitical view on both immigration and infection, was released in 2019. Wow. Could have followed up with a reasonable centrist essay on Kanye West and released it in 2021.
