A review by maekd
Brains: A Zombie Memoir by Robin Becker

1.0

I started out kind of liking this book and gradually began to realize I hated it, so much so that I actually gave up on it when I was more than half way through. I don't mind a bit of snark or arrogance, I'm a sucker for pop culture references, and I'm even an English Lit enthusiast. But each line was packed so tightly with little remarks and puns and the type of self-deprecating humor that seems to be preempting the joke rather than joining in on it that I just started to feel exhausted. This book's not nearly as funny as it thinks it is.

I thought maybe after the initial chapters, once the plot got going, the desperate irony and sarcasm would give way to a less hollow story line, but it just never did. It's a shame.