[ SECRET POST #4678 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4678 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I wanted to like Kill the Farm Boy. I always like a good send-up of tropes (Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Ben Edlund). Kill the Farm Boy has a diverse cast, including an old woman, and the first thing it did was literally turn a trope on its head.

But it felt like instead of smart satire, they went for the lowest-hanging fruit of poo humor and dick jokes. And I don't object to poop or dick jokes as a rule, but when they're taking the place of a smarter joke, that's a problem. That's ultimately the issue I had with KtFB--it was a high-brow concept with low-brow execution, and that just fundamentally doesn't work.

I don't know about the female author (Delilah something?), but I've talked to people about Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid series, and a lot of them like the books, but the ones who don't almost always cite "edgy for sake of being edgy" and that bleeds through into KtFB, I think. One dick joke might be funny, but when your whole world map is a dick joke, there's no longer humor in the unexpected.