How to Succeed in Evil is not a self-help page for the maladjusted. It it is the story of Edwin Windsor, Evil Efficiency Consultant. He's like Arthur Anderson for Supervillians.
Hum, interesting. I’m waiting to see if someone shows up to save the plane or not. Love the captain.
And a chapter a day sounds amazing! Can’t wait until tomorrow.
My Critique (Ignore at will): Seems a bit dry in parts, but without the humor that I enjoyed from before. I love the descriptions of the people, though. It is mostly the math and physics descriptions that are too dry and long. I literally grew bored during the “onion” discussion, though I liked the “smoking math” joke. Maybe it would be different if I was reading it. As it always it, this is all my opinion and not representative of the public at large.
Kind of hard to infuse convincing humor into this scene, but I think the math jokes do a good job (…as an aspiring applied mathematician I thought some of that was pretty funny). Even more than that, though, I think the irony that exists throughout does a great job of reflecting the earlier podcasts.
On the other hand, I will be on a plane on Wednesday, and since last week’s flights were so bad, I’m really glad I chose to read this before Wednesday… I was thinking about putting it on my iPod for the trip! That would probably have been a bad idea…
Give it time my brother. It’s just the prologue. If I went straight to the absurdly funny parts out of the gate, well, there would be no where to go but down.
Hum, interesting. I’m waiting to see if someone shows up to save the plane or not. Love the captain.
And a chapter a day sounds amazing! Can’t wait until tomorrow.
My Critique (Ignore at will): Seems a bit dry in parts, but without the humor that I enjoyed from before. I love the descriptions of the people, though. It is mostly the math and physics descriptions that are too dry and long. I literally grew bored during the “onion” discussion, though I liked the “smoking math” joke. Maybe it would be different if I was reading it. As it always it, this is all my opinion and not representative of the public at large.
Kind of hard to infuse convincing humor into this scene, but I think the math jokes do a good job (…as an aspiring applied mathematician I thought some of that was pretty funny). Even more than that, though, I think the irony that exists throughout does a great job of reflecting the earlier podcasts.
On the other hand, I will be on a plane on Wednesday, and since last week’s flights were so bad, I’m really glad I chose to read this before Wednesday… I was thinking about putting it on my iPod for the trip! That would probably have been a bad idea…
@Josh
Give it time my brother. It’s just the prologue. If I went straight to the absurdly funny parts out of the gate, well, there would be no where to go but down.
No where to go but down, huh? Just like Singapore Airlines Flight 209?
(Oh snap!)
Honestly, though, loved this first episode.
W00t! Evil is back!
It’s been a long, cold wait, but this prologue has got me re-psyched!
I’ll always be wondering in the back of my mind what happened to El Justiador, though…
Excellent! Thank you. Looking forward to seeing how things develope.