I think it is quite possible you are a cruel person!
Quite. As are my four compatriots in cruelty.
I am like the commenters. I think I read the book based on a few positive comments here. I didn't know ANYTHING about it except zombies. Literally.
Very cool! It's interesting to read those perspectives, what people think of these earlier chapters without knowing some of the basic things. For instance, Mark and a lot of other people are really concerned about the Wall, and I never really thought much about it. Except now I
am
wondering about it! Where is it? Who maintains it? Is it just a website? Is there a physical Wall too?
I had even forgotten it was a YA.
It's not.
The main hurdle for me to get over was the book's structure.
What do you mean? You mean the blog entries?
It's not YA?
WTF? I thought for sure it was while reading it. Hmm.
Yeah, the blog entries and the little post-scripts at the end of each chapter, some with more oomph than others.
Someone else said they found it in the YA section, but it's sci-fi/horror. The characters are also older than the typical YA protagonists.
There is another
Feed
that IS YA, so that's why you may have been confused.
Yeah, the blog entries and the little post-scripts at the end of each chapter, some with more oomph than others.
Yep.
Yep.
well I'll be damned. you know, I am not sure I knew how old the protags were. they seemed young to me, but you are right, they aren't 14 or anything.
I haz Skulduggery Pleasant! There goes my weekend.
they seemed young to me, but you are right, they aren't 14 or anything.
I think they're all mid- to late-twenties.
Ok, so now I need the Time to Read feature to extrapolate and turn the pages for me, at the rate I've been going in my current book. So it can let me blaze through easy read stuff and then give me more time for Jacques Ellul or whatever.
We can do this, peoples, we have the technology!
I could have used the Time To Read feature last night - I got into bed last night to read without realizing I was three pages from the end of the book. (Granted, I could have looked at the percentage last night and noticed I was 98% done, BUT STILL.)
98% is misleading, though! You don't know if the book actually goes to 100% or not. Like the Sherlock Holmes books I have are from Project Gutenberg, so at the end is all the copyright information and whatnot, so the books actually end in the 90% range.
It's like how I have to check each ASOIAF book to figure out when all the damn appendices start so I can gauge when I'll hit the end of the actual book.