After the Alice Sebold, I needed a palate cleanser.
This was ideal. Short, pithy, masterful understatement in the humour. The first page suggests that, in a zombie apocalypse, there's a chance that shops may offer reduced services and stock. That's the level of the humour here and I liked it a lot.
Anyone who grew up with the old Ladybird Books will recognise the format and style of this one. Every page is accompanied by a picture in the style of, or taken from, an old Ladybird book, but with horribly inappropriate text on the page opposite. As pisstakes go, this is really quite effective.
It kills 10 minutes easily enough. 20 if you stop to examine the pictures in detail.
Nothing more to say- it was only 20 pages of text.
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