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    Mogworld

    Written by Yahtzee Croshaw

    Narrated by Yahtzee Croshaw

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    About this audiobook

    In a world full to bursting with would-be heroes, Jim couldn't be less interested in saving the day. His fireballs fizzle. He's awfully grumpy. Plus, he's been dead for about sixty years. When a renegade necromancer wrenches him from eternal slumber and into a world gone terribly, bizarrely wrong, all Jim wants is to find a way to die properly, once and for all.

    On his side, he's got a few shambling corpses, an inept thief, and a powerful death wish. But he's up against tough odds: angry mobs of adventurers, a body falling apart at the seams and a team of programmers racing a deadline to hammer out the last few bugs in their AI.

    Mogworld is a comic fantasy novel in the tradition of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, and is the debut novel from video-game icon Yahtzee Croshaw (Zero Punctuation).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Book Audio
    Release dateSep 1, 2012
    ISBN9781936455270
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    • 4/5
      While it really did drag in the second act, Mogworld is well worth a read, even if you're not a gamer.
    • 4/5
      Mogworld is a fantasy-themed mass market paperback that would be lost in a sea of similar-sounding titles if one didn't know any better. This tongue-in-cheek dark comedy plays on the premise of a World of Warcraft-style zombie minion named Jim who dies but is resurrected much to his displeasure. He's an anti-hero who is on a quest to actually die, not just stay undead. Mogworld is the debut novel from acclaimed British internet personality Yahtzee Croshaw, producer of Zero Punctuation, as web series of video game reviews known for deadpan criticism, crude language and all around laughs. I sought this book for almost an year until I got a copy in my hands and was not let down. Unfortunately for me, but fortunately for everyone else, Mogworld is finally available as an ebook. There's no reason not to pick up this hilarious adventure of Jim and his unlikely band of memorable friends (well, they're more of colleagues, really).
    • 4/5
      Greatly amusing from the very first lines to the finale - filled with good old-fashioned fantasy adventure presented in a way I have not seen before. The sense of humour is brilliant and adds so much to the characters and the progression of this bizarre premise that is Mogworld. Simply put - Loved it!
    • 4/5
      I loved this. Not perfect by any means but still a super funny, engaging story. And now for the sequel.
    • 5/5
      Really great take on "Classic MMO and Fantasy". Funny, slapstick approach to a fairly elevated philosophical ethics debate. Definitely some more adult themes and situations, but a great read any day.
    • 4/5
      Sort of Hitchhikers Guide and Monty Python sense of ridiculousness. It was a little monotonous at first but worth hanging in for a few chapters.
    • 5/5
      fantastically surreal fun.

      the adventures of undead member of a necromancer's private army. incidentally the necromancer is a really great boss and cares a lot about his employees.

      then things get even stranger

      simply brilliant
    • 5/5
      I really liked this book. It gives me such a wave of nostalgia because I use to play mmorpgs every day. I love how Yatzhee takes the piss out of so many situations; very funny book. I enjoyed the ending too, there is a lot of irony
    • 4/5
      Book was cool, narration not in my taste. Will check for follow-up book!
    • 5/5
      brilliant shit mr man titty munching genious ONE MORE WORD!
    • 3/5
      A fun entertaining book that is just missing something. Lost the Reader between description of the book and actually reading the book almost 2 different things
    • 4/5
      A fun story with similar humour to the zero punctuation series so I would recommend to fans of that. It’s no homers odyssey but it made me chuckle and there are certainly worse books out there
    • 5/5
      This book is hilarious and an entertaining! Highly recommended! The author narrates it wonderfully.
    • 4/5
      Great read! 4.5 stars. Unique, funny, well-written, it’s a winner.
    • 5/5
      Great book. I do concede there are some slow parts but there were ALSO parts I literally laughed out loud at. Great narrator made it a better too
    • 4/5
      I really loved this, and will keep an eye out for more by Croshaw in the future. I don't want to say too much here, but even though I sort of knew what was going on, this still managed to surprise me quite a bit.
    • 4/5
      Great writing and story, though i don't like the protagonist's conflicting nature when it comes to achieving their goal
    • 4/5
      Really enjoyed this book. Doesn't ask too much of you as the reader. Has some nice character growth, unexpected twists, and actual laugh-out-loud moments.
    • 5/5
      This is hilarious! I don't usually review but halfway through listening I started to look for a fan base. Which is lacking on Facebook. There should be more. Maybe my review will help!
    • 5/5
      this is a great book interesting characters and a great story

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    • 2/5
      This book has a pretty good beginning, and a great ending. It's the middle bit I take issue with. Too bad that's like 80% of the book. It's just such obvious padding, and Jim, the protagonist, breaks one of the fundamental rules of writing, in that he is almost exclusively a reactionary protagonist, and not a proactive one. All he wants to do is die, and he takes quite lazy steps towards that end. This makes him a VERY boring character to read, EVEN THOUGH I FIND HIM FUNNY. That's why you don't write protagonists like this, because it just doesn't work, even if they're interesting in some other way. They have to be proactive. They can't just react to external factors for the entire length of a book. That's a bad Yahtzee! Bad!

      Add to that the fact that the lord of the rings style 'journey' he goes on is also filled with things that are boring in and of themselves, regardless of the quality of the protagonist, and the book grinds to an absolute halt. Slow books can be interesting, if done right. Unfortunately Yahtzee doesn't have the writing chops to make ANY slow bits interesting, much less the majority of a novel. He's no Patrick Rothfuss in that regard, to be sure. Which is not to say that Yahtzee's writing is bad. It's surprisingly publishable and professional. Not the best by any stretch, but better than a lot of the thriller/romance/horror writers on the NYT's bestseller list.

      And don't get me wrong; this book is genuinely funny and clever. Unfortunately it isn't funny enough often enough to be worth reading, in my opinion.

      All that being said, I would love to see Yahtzee write more fiction, perhaps sticking to a shorter format this time such as a short story or novella, because he's definitely shown a lack of skill and experience carrying a novel-length plot with this book, but he has equally shown a knack for funny, well-written dialogue and decent prose.

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    • 5/5
      I love this book, and even though I could see the twist coming it still got me.

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    • 3/5
      I liked it but didn't love it... just not a zombie fan maybe... I did really enjoy the interactions between the guys creating the game and the game characters, would have liked more of that in there... but overall fun and entertaining
    • 4/5
      What a riot! The beginning was a little slow and the end was... strange? But the humor was fabulous!
    • 4/5
      Good fun!

      This is the book you use to convince your friends audiobooks are worth it and not the "lazy" option for people who don't really "read". I can see the Pratchett analogies that are being drawn but I think Croshaw's more focused here than Pratchett is, there's a straight narrative here whereas Pratchett can tangent into (hilarious) side commentaries on things. This novel keeps tight to a core set of characters and a central plot.

      "Write what you know" works for this book and Yahtzee's experience with creating and reviewing video games shows, in a good way. He sends up the tropes of the genre well and most of it's subtle. His comedic timing is excellent and you love even the characters you started off hating (here's looking at you Thaddeus).

      There's a tiny, tiny part of me that held off on giving this 5 stars for things like "I wish he'd done something a bit bigger with the concept in the end" and "There's some character conflict that never really got resolved, more sort of paved over" but it doesn't hold it back.

      Do the audiobook. Do it loud.
    • 5/5
      If you're a fan of MMORPGs, or even video games in general, and have an appreciation for sarcastic wit and unforgettable characters, you'll love Mogworld.The storyline itself contains numerous references, some obscure and some not, to gaming and MMOs. If you're familiar with the subject material, you'll be able to spot these and appreciate the humor behind them much more easily. And if you're lacking in MMO knowledge, the dialogue and characters more than make up for it.The book's dual storyline introduces two sets of characters who will alternately annoy you, creep you out, charm you, and ultimately make you wish for a sequel.Yahtzee is never one to yield to political correctness or 'normal" conventions, and he doesn't alter that in Mogworld. Are some of the jokes tasteless? Yes. Inappropriate? Definitely. And that's a large part of what makes Mogworld such a great book; there's a sense of freedom and innovation that many authors are too afraid to pursue.So if you're looking for a fun, witty, and creative book that defies conventions (and the laws of physics), Mogworld is it.
    • 4/5
      Silly. But fun, made by the ending, so well worth slogging through the middle that drags a bit. The basic premise is that our hero (anti) one Jim BottomRoach is a lowly mage student when he gets violently killed by an invading army of student fighters. Interred in a mausoleum he is somewhat surprised to wake up as a zombie having been resurrected by a local necromancer. Jim is somewhat reluctant to become an undead minion, but various religions seem to have no different abilities to resolve his dilemma, neither does 'suicide' as he keeps returnign to unlife, (witht he hapless Merryl reattaching such limbs as necessary) so he does the best he can. However when the Dreadlord's entire fortress is deleted by 'angels' he realises something is profoundly odd with his world. Escaping more through luck than design he starts his own personal quest to get 'deleted' - being killed isn't enough. But the deleting poiwers seem very hard to find, and there are too many people who'd rather just destrroy his body leaving him stranded as semi-concious dust. The general feel is something a bit like Redshirts (by Skalzi) which has probably a smaller target audience (I suspect there are fewer Star Fans than PC gamers), but Skalzi is somewhat more famous than Croshaw, this being his debuet novel. Apart from dragging a bit in the middle it is well written. The characters have a good degree of annoying banter, but not too much. Any lack of emaotional depth can be put down to them mostly being reanimated zombies. The priests various curses are quite fun, and the satire of gaming culture fairly obvious but well done.
    • 4/5
      Mogworld is the first book written by the very awesome creator of the very awesome video game review series "Zero Punctuation". Imagine the Angry Video Game Nerd on speed and Australian. All Jim wanted was a little peace and quiet. Not much to ask for, being dead after all. But after a necromancer raises him for his unholy army of the night (with a nice health-care package), Jim tries everything to get back to his crypt. But things keep getting in the way, like the zealot priest, "Slippery John", the crafty thief who keeps referring to himself in third person, and the Deleters -- mysterious, ghost-like apparitions that seem to have more control over the world than anyone really should.Okay, I don't know why I just wrote a query for this book (a bad one, at that). The book combines a little Terry Pratchett and a little Video Game Memebase. There are so few books out there that treat video games as legit (like "Ready Player One") it's a pleasure to find something that's this well-written. My only beef is that it's so satirical and biting that there aren't enough really likable characters in it. Like a lot of nerd humor, it relies on Asperger's syndrome or douche-bag characters for its humor.
    • 5/5
      Let me start this off by saying that this was easily one of the most thought-provoking, amusing, and addictive books I've read all year.I admit, I picked this book up because it was written by Yahtzee (as I'm sure most of us did). The premise sounded interesting enough, and skimming a page proved that the book is not at all lacking in trademark Yahtzee hilarity.This book, however, was much more than just that. By the end of the book, even the characters I hated had become empathetic, or even endearing. That was, in fact, my one complaint about this book; Yahtzee is very good at making us care about these characters and when they don't end up coming to care for each other just as much, it's a little bit frustrating. Nevertheless, the ending to the story is absolutely perfect, and if you can walk away from this book without doing some hard thinking afterwards, please, I beg of you, question what it means to be a human being and a gamer, because you seem to be confused on a few things.The premise is so much more than it first appears to be, and the book is structured so that every detail has maximum impact. I don't know if Yahtzee is such a good writer or if he just had the best editor of all time, but this was a very well-written book. Every second of it felt interesting, between the humor, the fast-paced action, and the interesting, morally dubious narration.In the end, as long as you don't mind people giving you strange looks as you giggle and sigh over a book with an enormous zombie on the cover, I highly recommend this book. It was a wonderful read and I'm so glad that more bookstores are starting to carry it.

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    • 2/5
      Initially rather funny, but it didn't hold my attention.

      1 person found this helpful