Installing Linux on a Dead Badger by Lucy A. Snyder

This is a… pretty amusing collection of short stories. I could not have written a better book, myself.

See how I’m pulling punches here? I don’t mind knocking a book, generally. But this book has an amateur, self-published feel about it.

The About The Author is 2 1/2 pages long, detailing how she came up with the title parody and got her start writing comedy at everything2.com. So, it’s not surprising that it reads like someone wrote some stuff for a website that got a lot of LOLs, and then gathered them up and published them.

Not a *bad* thing, per say. And it is a good parody of a Linux installation guide, in that it was written by someone who has really read a Linux How-To.

Oh! Here’s what it reminds of: The Flying Spaghetti Monster. A guy wrote a letter and posted it on the internet, and it became a worldwide sensation. Then he wrote a book based on the contents of the letter, and it read… like a book based on a letter.

Anyway. Amusing.