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fridaymouse 's review for:
The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine: Paperback Revised and Updated for 2020
by Sydnee McElroy, Justin McElroy
DID NOT FINISH: 12%
For a revised edition, they could have fixed the typos everyone is mentioning in the reviews for the first edition. It's glaringly distracting for sentences to have confusing typos, as well as grammatical structures that make zero sense.
The comedy is few and far between and not nearly as punchy as the podcast. Sydnee is VERY funny in my opinion, but she doesn't get to shine here. She and Justin aren't playing off each other, they're writing an essay and then inserting random tidbits that are only halfway to being jokes. Justin gets much more space on the page to be funny than Sydnee does.
Speaking of space on the page, JESUS this body of text is a slog to get through. Each page is full of uninspired retellings of events with no gusto to it. We barely get a sense of a narrative voice outside of the jokey inserts. I want to feel like Justin and Sydnee are telling me a story of history, not like I'm reading a Wikipedia article.
The comedy is few and far between and not nearly as punchy as the podcast. Sydnee is VERY funny in my opinion, but she doesn't get to shine here. She and Justin aren't playing off each other, they're writing an essay and then inserting random tidbits that are only halfway to being jokes. Justin gets much more space on the page to be funny than Sydnee does.
Speaking of space on the page, JESUS this body of text is a slog to get through. Each page is full of uninspired retellings of events with no gusto to it. We barely get a sense of a narrative voice outside of the jokey inserts. I want to feel like Justin and Sydnee are telling me a story of history, not like I'm reading a Wikipedia article.