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Org's Odyssey: A Tale of Post-Human Earth Paperback – April 13, 2004


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Product Details

  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: iUniverse (April 13, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0595316794
  • ISBN-13: 978-0595316793
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 1.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,810,450 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is pretty much the worst book I have ever read.
girlvinyl
Not only does his story need a serious edit, but his writing style lacks maturity.
LemurKat
I would rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in my ear.
Douglas Muth

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92 of 95 people found the following review helpful By LemurKat on December 28, 2006
I believe I am one of the few reviewers here that have actually read this book. It does not contain many of the elements some of the reviewers claim, but that is not necessarily an improvement.

This book is amusing, albeit unintentionally. The story begins with a rather nicely complicated, and ridiculous, infodump explaining how the "Anthropians" came to be. Giving dolphins' gills for a start seems rather dubious - as do otter/dolphin/deer hybrids. It then moves to a most unconvincing "romance" between Org's father, Og, and his mother - the daughter of a God, the end result of which has her running off with him and providing him with four heirs - the third of which is Org, our "legendary hero".

This story has a lot of problems. The writing style itself is a little bit tending to the pompous with the use of unnecessarily flamboyant words - something I don't usually mind that much - however Otterland does not always use the words in the appropriate context. He does not use "said" but instead uses derivatives, some of which make no sense when paired with the words. His character descriptions consist of fur and hair colour, eye colour and wing colour and all of his main characters are monochromatic (ie: Org is white, Forrest green etc). Amongst them all, Org and Christian are the only ones with personality. Since this lack of personality means the reader cannot differentiate between them, Otterland has helped by making each of the six supporting characters (not that they actually do much supporting - or much of anything, except make the reader want to sacrifice them to the elder gods) have a catch-phrase.

Which they use every time they speak.

Whether it fits what they're saying or not.

These are the phrases:

"... young master.
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56 of 57 people found the following review helpful By Dr. D. J. Ashmore on March 31, 2009
The 'Furry' literary sub-group is, as one might expect not the most prominent upon which a chap might call for a spot of light reading.

Indeed, as with the community itself, the material of choice for such works does, in the main tend towards the fetishist, even the lurid as those who work within it strive to serve their fellows with apt prose.

However, though perhaps not for the general reader, this is not to say that the writers working in this environ are all poor in their craft, for there are a number of very talented scribes about.

However, Jeremy M. Gallen (under his pen-name of Duke Otterland) is certainly not one of them.

I have been required to read this work, it having been recently donated to our university library by a current student (though I cannot say for certain if this donation was made entirely without some sort of practical jest attached) and post this review not simply to rehash the very clear, and cutting work of previous reviewers. Rather, I use the quality of this work - or lack thereof - to plead for greater consideration from, so called Vanity Publishers who surely must accept some responsibility for the waste of pulp which this book (and others like it) represents.

I make no value judgements regarding the subject matter - for, in all it is a genre title, and subject to the social and sexual mores of the Furry Family.

However, the child-like and amateurish way in which the book has been thrown together as the worst sort of 'Mary-Sue' adventure leaves me in no doubt that of three general points:

1: That the author should not be wasting his time putting pen to paper, without some very serious editorial support.
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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful By Ruby Chiarito on January 19, 2007
Honestly, I try not to review things that I don't finish-- but this book was awful. His style lacks anything even remotely close to maturity. I got about forty pages in before being flat out disgusted by his poor editing and boorish storytelling abilities.

I wish I could give less than one star.
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful By A. Thornton on August 10, 2006
I made the mistake of purchasing this last winter against the advice of my friends, and I have to say they wre right. This book is horrible.
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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful By Paco SixFiveZero on September 7, 2006
I had a friend who's into internet phenomenae and he brought up Duke Otterland one day. Apparently he is an autistic furry and artist, also an avid livejournal user, and also, an AUTHOR!

So I asked him if he had a copy of this book, which he did, and I borrowed it. The next day I drove an extra 20 miles out of my way to return the book as I considered myself tainted by the presence of such a FOUL PIECE OF "LITERATURE."

The first paragraph is funny if you have a very dark sense of humor. After that it is a painfully boring, self-indulgent, disgusting read.
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76 of 87 people found the following review helpful By girlvinyl on August 10, 2006
This is pretty much the worst book I have ever read. It makes no sense and rambles on about things like how furries and humans get into these thunderdome type wrestling matches and then the humans eat the furrie/antro creatures. They roast them over some kind of spit. I find this absolutely SHAMEFUL! No one should eat furries or antropods of any kind. The way this book is so insensitive to the trial of the furries is an abomination!!! I won't stand for it.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful By Douglas Muth on June 20, 2007
This is literally the worst book I have ever read. I couldn't even manage to finish it. I would rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in my ear.
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