Reviews for Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren't As Scary

The average rating for Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren't As Scary based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-12-12 00:00:00 Thomas Billinge Here's an amusing collection of imaginative shorts aimed at the younger set, a younger set that possesses a dry, sardonic sense of humor, anyway. I enjoyed these stories while I was reading them, and then...promptly forgot almost all of them.* There are some familiar names here, (also known as BIG NAME-BRAND authors) - Nick Hornby, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Neil Gaiman - but the tales in this book are obviously not anyone's BEST work. *Two notable exceptions - Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband by George Saunders concerns a man who goes to extremes to keep his family safe, and Grimble by Clement Freud, about a boy, uncertain of just how old he is because his parents won't tell him, who is left to fend for himself while his odd parents visit Peru.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-06-23 00:00:00 Dereck Gilbert A collection of short stories from the likes of Neil Gaiman, Nick Hornby, George Saunders, Jonathan Safran Foer and a bunch of people I didn't know. All the stories are quirky and weird, and all the stories are just okay. The one by Gaiman was less than okay, it was really annoying. I already forgot what most of the stories were about because they left that little of an impression. The best part was the introduction by Lemony Snicket and the wonderful illustrations throughout the book.