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Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: A Book by Patton Oswalt | Patton Oswalt
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Prepare yourself for a journey through the world of Patton Oswalt, one of the most creative, insightful, and hysterical voices on the entertainment scene today. Widely known for his roles in the films Big Fan and Ratatouille, as well as the television hit The King of Queens, Patton Oswalta staple of Comedy Centralhas been amusing audiences for decades. Now, with Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, he offers a fascinating look into his most unusual, and lovable, mindscape. Oswalt combines memoir with uproarious humor, from snow forts to Dungeons & Dragons to gifts from Grandma that had to be explained. He remembers his teen summers spent working in a movie Cineplex and his early years doing stand-up. Readers are also treated to several graphic elements, including a vampire tale for the rest of us and some greeting cards with a special touch. Then theres the books centerpiece, which posits that before all young creative minds have anything to write about, they will home in on one of three story lines: zombies, spaceships, or wastelands. Oswalt chose wastelands, and ever since he has been mining our societys wasteland for perversion and excess, pop culture and fatty foods, indie rock and single-malt scotch. Zombie Spaceship Wasteland is an inventive account of the evolution of Patton Oswalts wildly insightful worldview, sure to indulge his legion of fans and lure many new admirers to his very entertaining wasteland.
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rather_be_reading
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Mehso-so

Started off strong, learned alot and then he lost me. It got a bit weird. Wasnt as funny as I expected it to be.

Butterfinger So he should just stick to acting. 3y
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rather_be_reading
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Butterfinger I hadn't realized he had written a book. Was it a good read? 3y
rather_be_reading @Butterfinger good so far! Ill let u know tomorrow 3y
rather_be_reading @Butterfinger see my review today. 3y
IMASLOWREADER i love him on king and queens 3y
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booklover3258
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Pickpick

My review of this book can be found on my Youtube Vlog at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNzpOAVacx4

Enjoy!

Butterfinger This is the same actor of Ratatouille and The Goldbergs? 4y
booklover3258 Yup same actor 4y
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Booksnchill
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Not the tagged book but the Ghost Box set of 11 Short Ghost stories by Hinston & Olsen Publishing in Canada (they also do a Christmas collection which I read last year) edited by Patton Oswalt. A read along with Oswalt begins today and the first short is “The Striding Place” by Gertrude Atherton. Beautiful set!

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RiaWritten
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Taking a moment before writers group to show off my used bookstore #bookhaul! Less than $10. I'm good at this game.

AmyG I loved We Were the Mulvaneys. Disfunctional family book at it's best. 7y
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MayginReads
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#goodwill #bookhaul Have any of you read Zombie Spaceship Wasteland? I waivered on it and it ended up being a last minute impluse buy.

I'm really excited about An Untamed State. I'm currently listening to the audiobook of Year of Yes.

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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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#thistitleequalsgreatbandname 3 of 3

Zombie Spaceship Wasteland - Post-punk hardcore thrash metal. A bunch of accountants blowing off steam on the weekends. Every show they end without blood on their ties is a failure.

Three Moments of an Explosion - The Midtown High Talent Show is unprepared for these young misanthropes with something to prove.

#marchintoreading

Well-ReadNeck YESSSS! 🙌🏻 7y
RealLifeReading 😂😂😂 awesome!! 7y
mandapants Ha. You totally have this down. 7y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk @mandapants It was so much fun! 7y
readordierachel Perfect. 7y
saresmoore 🤣 You nailed this! I would totally go to a ZSW show, wearing a t-shirt from my favorite Scandinavian speed metal band, A Man Called Ove. Wait, no, that one DOES NOT work. 7y
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Chessa
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It was my thrift store's last day of 50% sales for the month and I decided to hit it - w00t! I can't believe I scored that Legend boxed set - for $1.50! 😱 Looking forward to reading all of these! 📚❤️ #thriftscore

Julsmarshall Great score! 7y
Litlady Nice haul‼️ 👍🌟👍🌟 7y
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Reviewsbylola Its always so amazing when you score a good deal like that. 7y
rachellayown 👍👍👍 7y
UwannaPublishme Wow!! You did score! 👍🏻 7y
BekahB Wow! You picked up a lot of great books! 7y
GlitteryOtters Dang!!! Good haul!!! 👍💕✨📚✨💕 7y
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GoneFishing

'hobos' (a slang term that combines the words 'hope' and 'bowl of beans given to me for free by a woman who then initiated intercourse')

britt_brooke 😂👏🏻 8y
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Panpan

Wasted too much time already on this book - only finished it because it was a challenge book. Started okay, ended with me hating it! Obviously not a shared sense of humour. Done. *shudders*

BekahB I haven't read this one but I listened to his book Silver Screen Fiend on audio. I think audio helped me stay with it. It also focused on a specific topic, his obsession with movies. But I'm all for leaving a book when you're not into it. There are too many books in the world to read and enjoy! 8y
List_addict @BekahB You are spot on! 8y
MrBook Interesting title at least, lol. 8y
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List_addict
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Next life I want to write wine blurbs. Love that someone thinks they're as funny as I do. The Aussie wine is hilarious: A binky wosgow of keezy plinkers, hoop-daddied for a ‘dillo‘s wink and flappled in a pongo. Hints of sweet bashie, roasted wopabaggle, and frum-dipped mollys. A right chickamoo!

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michaeltraps
Pickpick

This man is a genius. After recently watching his new Netflix standup, I knew I had to give this a read. Patton Oswalt is also a fantastic writer, which I suppose I wasn't expecting? Not for any reason. But it's funny and touching and beautiful all at once.