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iasa's review

4.0

* I received this as a GR giveaway*

Imagine coming home exhausted after a rough Tuesday at the office and deciding to lighten your stress by having a slice of peyote pie and a glass of curdled milk at the local octogenarian sex club; that's the atmosphere of Coffin Dodgers . It's your basic bizarro tale- gross, messy, surreal, and fun! It's a fast-paced action tale of conflict and perhaps a whiff of love. Perfect for a girl to read in a bunker with a stockpile of butterscotch pudding.
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horrorbong's review

5.0

Excellent absurd military Bizarro science fiction. Funny, horrific, quite often disgusting. Highly recommended!

stitching_ghost's review

5.0

A bizarre post apocalyptic/dystopian tale with characters that are uniquely endearing and many hilarious lines.

I think Wilhelm, the main character, is every millennial's inner life made into a character and I loved him for it because I too feel both ancient and like a kid at the same time.

There is quite a bit of potentially triggering material in the book but there's an almost lighthearted tone to the book that made it all just seem very surreal more than anything else to me.
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aratecla_the_bookrat's review

4.0

I listened to the audiobook version and the narrator has done a brilliant job with the different voices and tones, that I really felt the different personalities of the characters!

This story is absolutely crazy but the world building is done so well that it could almost be credible!
In the near future an old man creates a virus that was meant to give immortality and although it manages to do that, the virus only enhances the life and abilities of old people. This starts a war between the young and old generations that had been going on for 200 years when the book starts.
The Resistance is finally ready to release their weapon to stop the war with the Greys once and for all but it doesn't go to plan and the amount of crazyness happens that it's difficult to describe!

This book made me cringe, laugh maniacally, cringe a bit more, ponder about life and surprised me more than once! There were some parts that I felt were a bit too long and could have done with a bit more speed but it didn't affect my enjoyment that much.

The author did a brilliant job at creating a bizzarre tale that might end up being true at some point in human history! In addition there's so many twists to make your head spin several times!

And I can confirm I will never look at butterscotch the same ever again!

Thanks to the author for the audiobook and this is my honest review.

n0rmann's review

3.0

Messed up and crazy - a world where the olds (grey) and youngs are fighting for supremacy. So crazy, violent, F-ed up.
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nicktionary19's review

4.0

Hilarious and horrible hi jinx

If Star Wars buttsexed Palahniuk’s Pygmy on the set of Cocoon, this book would be the shit-smeared money shot. There are some minor lapses in its own internal logic, otherwise Coffin Dodgers is a fast-paced, well-executed adventure story that really revels in hilarious grotesquery.