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Title: Ninja Burger Honorable Employee Handbook
Author: Michael L. Fiegel
Genre: Card game tie-in novelty
Thingummies: 1
Synopsis: A parody of employee handbooks, drawn from the card game Ninja Burger.
Thingummies: Why did I read this? Because a friend ended up with a free copy and handed it to me, and I needed something mindless to read over my breakfast cereal.
This blatant cash-in attempt mimics actual employee handbooks a little too closely for true humor value, and goes for cheap, repetitive jokes instead of true satire. (Sample running jokes: If you screw up, we will kill you. You can't find us and we can't find you. Samurai are bad.) There's a handful of mildly amusing lines here or there, but they clearly had a page count to hit, and overall, it's rather tedious.
I'm going to guess that 95% of the books sold will be to clueless non-geek parents and friends desperately looking for a gift for a loved one, who say to themselves "Doesn't Johnnie/Joanna like this game? I bet s/he'll love this!" and snap it up, rather than actually asking the poor kid what they want for his/her birthday.
Author: Michael L. Fiegel
Genre: Card game tie-in novelty
Thingummies: 1
Synopsis: A parody of employee handbooks, drawn from the card game Ninja Burger.
Thingummies: Why did I read this? Because a friend ended up with a free copy and handed it to me, and I needed something mindless to read over my breakfast cereal.
This blatant cash-in attempt mimics actual employee handbooks a little too closely for true humor value, and goes for cheap, repetitive jokes instead of true satire. (Sample running jokes: If you screw up, we will kill you. You can't find us and we can't find you. Samurai are bad.) There's a handful of mildly amusing lines here or there, but they clearly had a page count to hit, and overall, it's rather tedious.
I'm going to guess that 95% of the books sold will be to clueless non-geek parents and friends desperately looking for a gift for a loved one, who say to themselves "Doesn't Johnnie/Joanna like this game? I bet s/he'll love this!" and snap it up, rather than actually asking the poor kid what they want for his/her birthday.
