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Something Happened
Something Happened
Joseph Heller | 1995 | Fiction & Poetry, Humor & Comedy
(0 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"I read this when I was 21 and was knocked out by the darkness of the satire and the incredible comic rhythms created. Bob Slocum is scared of everything. A book about being destroyed by your own fears, and the inability to confront them."

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Teahouse
Teahouse
Emirain | 2012
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
4.5 stars

 came across this book by accident after seeing it as a recommendation at the side of my page and I clicked on it, saw the link to the web-comic and clicked it and before I knew it, I was devouring this book/story/comic.<br/><br/>I was so easily drawn into it, flipping through the pages like it was going to last forever and then it just ended...the creators got caught up in real life, getting jobs and finishing school and the comic was no more. *sob*

I initially wanted to cry at finding this out; the comic was so good! It was funny in places, sweet in others, sexy at times, serious at others. I wanted to see how it was all going to end. Unfortunately that didn't happen but the creators did write an ending for each of the budding relationships in the story and I'm more or less happy with it.

I LOVED the artwork for this. The duo is very talented and I wish them luck in future endeavours!
  
This book returns The Middleman to his comic book roots and gives us what would have been the final episode of season 1 if they show's ratings hadn't sunk it. For that reason, I enjoyed it, however it did lose some of the series personality and definitely left things much more open than the actual finale did.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/05/book-review-middleman-doomsday.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.