I don’t read Deadspin or any of the sites Mr. Magary writes on regularly, but the dystopian theme was interesting to me, and the reviews were positive, so I decided to give it a shot. It was much darker than I thought it would be (perhaps the cover wasn’t enough of a tip-off?). Almost too bleak. And this is coming from someone very comfortable with pessimism. Maybe it’s because it’s the holidays, or because people are in generally good spirits, but I figured out towards the end of the book that I wasn’t quite in the mood to read something like this.
On the plus side: the format of the book made it extremely readable (you’re basically reading blog entries of a dude in the future), the story was engaging and progressed quickly, and his depressing views of the future seemed believable.
If you’ve got the stomach, dive in.
