Okay kiddies, I’m finally back from limbo getting all my shit squared away, and I’m packing up ready to move in a week, in which time you wont be seeing me AT ALL… or at least till I get a new computer. At least I can come back and give you a review before I disappear for a while.

Username Monkey king… really folks, are you gonna go wrong with a name like monkey king? Yeah, I thought not.

First Impression “Is this fucking error message gonna pop up EVERYTIME I change pages? HEY! THAT MONKEY’S DRINKING BEER!”

Errors Like I just mentioned, I get a script error every single time I changed pages on your diary. Like-a so…

ain’t I swell guy for screen shotting that for yah? Now if you actually care to fix it then you can tweak your HTML. Other than that irritating little happening (and it happened a lot… I actually read all your entries), everything else was in working order… even your pay pal buttons (sorry, didn’t buy anything, too busy saving cash to move.) 9/10

Layout For one thing, it’s the monkey king, I love the drawing your friend did for the page, because it really does seem to sum up the pieces of attitude I picked up from you whilst reading your entries. Pint glass in hand, crown upon his noble drunk simian brow, and a pile of books under his arse. It’s beautiful really. All of this on top of a grey/ forest green setting. Hmm, well maybe not forest, kinda dark olive I guess… yeah, let’s go with dark olive. Everything’s organized well, nothing’s cluttered, font is big and easy to read, heck, even my pet peeve of having repeated links at the top and bottom doesn’t bug me. 20/20

Content You were rather hard to review at first, because this isn’t a diary per say. This is almost a diary, but it’s a book review dump at first, also, it’s an incomplete book review site. You still haven’t transferred everything over from the actual site yet I believe, but you still have a shit load of content here. 160 (give or take a few entries) out of the 200 books you started out planning on reading, that range from faux-classics (like Bukowski, and Kerouac) to actual “classics” (Hemmingway, William Gibson… even if Neuromancer is only a classic to cyber-punk geeks, Orwell, and Steinbeck. You love the Steinbeck.), to random bits and bots of whatever. You even rate TPB’s (trade paperbacks for those who A. never read comics, or B. never worked in a book store), most of them from comics I love. In these ratings you interject more than your opinion, you interject yourself, which is why I said it’s almost as much of a diary as it is a book review site.

What you do interject is definitely worth more than anything else in your reviews. They’re all raw, intelligent, funny, melancholy, nostalgic, and beautiful. You drudge up fondness from past times in your life, as well as groan worthy moments, and always find a way to tie the book to yourself, or something relevant. You’re an amazing writer, and it probably is from reading so many damn books. I give you a lot of respect, I’d like to read a lot more than I do, but I have a terribly short attention span, thus the book has to be that exciting.

The only beef I really had with you was your review of Chuck Palahniuk books… why? Mostly because I can tell that you didn’t really get them, or you saw things that were kind of a stretch in terms of connecting his older books together. Fight Club is nothing to what Invisible Monsters is, both are only tied together by the ideal of “trying to destroy your life gives you more freedom than trying to build it.” Whoa, now that I think of it, that’s the basis behind a lot of Chuck’s work.

Onwards HOOOOO!

Well, aside from me being a little disappointed that you haven’t added a review in 2 years (according to the archives page at least), I love everything about reading your entries. Your dry wit, and out right humor is right up my alley, and you almost got me interested to finally read some Steinbeck (I’ve only read “Of Mice and Men” which I was kinda iffy with.), and I’ve definitely started picking up more reading as of late. Granted all my books are received from the Borders my fiancé works at for 33% off the going rate, I’d rather pay used bookstore prices… come to think of it, I’d really like to go to a used book store and dump all her fucking Wicca books the woman doesn’t read down and see if I can get enough cash back to buy a couple 12 packs… or a new videogame… or an 8th of pot… no matter. I also really wish I had some cash to spare to (I’m that broke currently), I’m rather interested to Purchse a few of your wares. A novel thru e-mails sounds rather interesting, as does your take on early 90’s cal-punk. If I ever met you monkey king, I’d like to split some brew down at the local watering hole and discuss anything, and you seem like that interesting of a chap. Rock rock on.

65/65

Would I come Back If you added more reviews, yeah, but as of now, I have no purpose to. 5/5

Bonus You get a +2 in INT a +2 in CHR and a +1 in MND and a +1 in rocking electric. A winner is you. +6/5

Total 100/100

Final Thought: Holy shit balls… the first perfect score in Diary-Nazi history. I really am way too nice. But if you want a prime example of why i love this guy... look no further than here

Reviewed By : Tofu