MOGWorld

[Isard]

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 the debut novel from video-game icon Yahtzee Croshaw (Zero Punctuation). Mogworld is a comic fantasy novel in the tradition of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, with a video-game twist: the main character is a minor character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

This is without a doubt, the best thing I've read in months. Written by "Yatzee" Croshaw, creator and reviewer for "Zero Punctuation" for the Escapist Magazine, has published his first novel. Set in a familiar fantasy world (because we haven't seen near enough elves and dwarves beating each other with metal sticks now have we?) we meet Jim, the undead protagonist who really preferred the days before his unwanted resurrection, in his quest for eternal rest.

Filled with memorable characters, witty humor (Classic Yatzee), and much poking of the fun at Muhmorpaghuuuuuuuus... Great book.


Wonderful.


Five stars.



Read it.


It's $8 on Amazon.

[Human No More]

Sounds good, I may have to read this