at some point this book started feeling super in love with itself and its own twee cleverness, and stopped being interesting wrt its apocalyptic story telling. it saved itself in the end, and I'm glad I finished it, but I probably would've enjoyed it more if it was 10-15 more traditional short stories about a variety of world ending events, instead of a hundred paragraphs or one page items that mostly went nowhere at all. McSweeney's!! I WILL NEVER ESCAPE. ( )

Ehhh. For some reason I just couldn't get through the apocalypses. The first three stories were very cool and weird, and the 4-star rating is bases solely on those, because I put the book down a quarter of the way through the apocalypses.

The Eyes of Dogs was great, especially considering I'd recently read [b:Tinder|18113422|Tinder|Sally Gardner|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1377691535s/18113422.jpg|25440424] which is based on the same fairy tale. Madmen was totally weird in a really creepy way - I didn't really enjoy reading it necessarily, but it was worth reading. ( )

Assorted words on the page. ( )