I forgot what day it was and I must blog (I have no mouth DARE review final part. A bit late but still)

         Hello and welcome back to the only blog whose owner forgot what month it was and was consequently extremely late to update. Sorry about that! I am your host, Ay Ay Rin, and today at the Reader in Yellow, we're finally saying goodbye to the wonderful world of "I have no mouth and I must scream" (Linked in case you might want to read it. Harlan Ellison does not approve!). As always, [insert generic ESUHSD District Superintendent Chris D. Funk joke here], and I'm also proud to announce (off topic) that I'm actually a partially-award-winning writer now! Anyways, on to the Evaluation of "I have no mouth and I must scream".

Praise Funk, for it is over!

        Harlan Ellison's story is a simple concept, at its heart. A group of flawed individuals must suffer together before a pair of them endure the ultimate form of suffering after one saves the rest. This is all well and good, and really does nail home how hopeless things can get. Personally, I found the read quite enjoyable, if odd at times, due to its narrative choices and such. It was a little short for my taste, though it could be argued it is just the right length, and I'd say the videogame adaptation much rectifies that little nitpick. While I'd hesitate to use it in an AP test, I can clearly see why those who read it give it such praise and merit for what it does. As I clearly must have stated before, AM is likely one of the best written murderous AIs in existence, as it does what it's told, and it does it exceptionally well. At the same time, AM is also shown to be suffering alongside the humans, and that is what makes AM into such a great character. 

Bringing this image back because my man really is the most relatable lad in the story!

        To elaborate on the AP test, while someone as much a stickler for the rules and such as ESUHSD District Superintendent Christopher D. Funk might shun this from ever being used, I'd say it holds enough depth and meaning to be used in an AP test (though I'd still hesitate, as I said before), in that it does a good job of depicting suffering and the hopelessness one can sometimes feel when in the human condition (Or ESUHSD's education system under Chris D. Funk's iron fist). While it may be a little short, and some passages are either dated or leave much to be desired, Ellison does manage to deliver a thought provoking tale in very few pages (though I hardly doubt my Kindle paperwhite would make it seem like it's fifty more pages than it really is).

        To finally conclude, I'd say that in spite of its flaws and its EXTREMELY flawed author (Man filed more lawsuits than Kevin Siembieda after seeing some fanmade statblocks for his RIFTS system!), I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream does accurately depict the hopelessness felt by alot of us in 2020, not to mention a truly interesting story for its length. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a debt to work off after losing that lawsuit to Harlan Ellison's raging revenant! As always, stay safe, stay relatively sane, stay witty, stay ROAR appropriate, and stay far away when the wrath of the allmighty ESUHSD District Superintendent Christopher D. Funk is invoked! This has been Ay Ay Rin (not a typo, came out as EnBy[They/Them] a bit back, don't tell le parents though, I gotta find a way to break that to them in my own time, if I'm ever brave enough to do that. Thank the lord they don't actually read this), and you've read the Reader in Yellow! Peace, and until next year, my fellow cultists!

Darn, guess I am paying that $65,000 after all!