T. C. Beverly's Literary Reviewsday: Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt

This week I've been asked to review Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by comedian Patton Oswalt. The comedic prowess Patton Oswalt displays on stage is just as powerful in written word. This has been well known for years as Mr. Oswalt has written dozens of articles online, for various sites. Each of the articles have been popular, and funny. But the transition from twelve paragraph, guest articles online to this 208 page semi biographical book could prove to be a bit of a challenge for Oswalt.

I'll never know, cause I have no plans on reading this pamphlet ( you want me to call it a book you make it longer than 208 pages).

I like Patton Oswalt, but why can't he stick to stand-up? Did he really need to be in book form? I Don't think so. The day I pay too much money just to chuckle at a semi humorous, 8 hour long work of unnecessary entertainment is the day I see Larry the cable guy live.

I've never read a book written by a comedian. I've never seen an Author do stand-up comedy. I expect Patton Oswalt to be as good at writing as J. D. Salinger would be at making a crowd of drunks and hipsters laugh. Although the idea of a George Orwell ventriloquist act excites me to no end. Ooh, or "The night of a million impressions" with H. P  Lovecraft.

And can someone please explain to me why Patton Oswalt can write a book while simultaneously writting a completely different hour of stand-up comedy every year, but Carlos Mencia has to steal the ten minutes of hack comedy he's been doing since 1992? Why be a comedian if you suck that bad?

I'd like to read a Carlos Mencia book. I think it would be called Hola, A Tale Of Two Mexican Cities Essay. It's basically just A Tale Of Two Cities word for word except the protagonists name is Jose.

The cover of Zombie Spaceship Wasteland looks like a check list for all three topics. When the book arrived I grabbed a pin, checked all the boxes and wrote above "shit I don't want to read about". Ok, I didn't really do that. I threw it away as soon as I saw what it was.

I'm pretty sure my garbage man is reading all of the Reviewsday books I've been throwing away. When I brought in the trash bin  yesterday there was a note pined to it that said...

Alright. But can you pick up some more young adult stuff? You know, something a thirteen year old girl tied to a pipe in a wooden shack might want to read in between soul cleansings. 

So there you have it Inquisitive Online. Send some young adult stuff a thirteen year old girl tied to a pipe in a wooden shack might want to read in between soul cleansings. Oh, and also a shitload of police.

I think we're done here. But let me remind you that October is Pre-Pushkin poetic Literature Month. So whip out your Ushanka's, bake some Okranshka  and snuggle up with your favorite Pre-Pushkin poetry. Like I had to tell you.


T. C. Beverly