As a long time listener of the Bombcast and also the show This is only a Test, which is -in my humble opinion- at its best when Garry is on, I rushed to support Mr. Whitta when he announced he was cowd-funding his first book, Abomination. I got it several months later when it was finished as a project supporter and it should now be widely aviable to buy on Amazon and such.

I have read it in four days and found it pretty great, would rate 4/5 because I had some issues with the ending (see the spoiler section bellow), but I had a blast reading the whole thing in a couple of days, it's really a page turner.

I was surpised to not found a thread here as Gary is a friend of the site for quite some time now, so I started it to see if there is any interest in our little comunity!

In the spoiler tag bellow I will talk openly about the ending, click at your own risk!!

Didn't even know this was a thing, awesome. Might have to give it a read sometime soon.

I'm in a similar situation as you. I generally really liked the book. I thought the premise very interesting and well written. Trying to be careful how I phrase this after reading the posts on entitlement but I felt a little let down by the ending. It seemed to me to be quite rushed after the way the main plot line built up. Overall a great book and would recommend. Can't wait for more although with Gary's workload I'm not sure how long it will be.

I may have to check this out. I kinda fell off Tested.com as they became pure drone and 3d printer talk for rich dudes, so I haven't been up on my Whitta. Good to see him doing more!

@chu52: Right, I recently went through the old episedes and seeked specifically the Whitta ones, his humor is legendary! I am not keeping up with the new episodes at all.

I'm unlikely to buy this book but I've been wondering what G Whitta has been up to these days. Good for him!

Now I know Gary Whitta is a good writer that gets his scripts mangled by the Hollywood machine. Never forget he has screen writing credits for Book of Eli and After Earth.

I'm sorry when did thinking something you bought wasn't perfect make you an entitled asshole? You like most of the book save for the ending what's wrong with that? Ending are hard to get right just read any Stephen King novel, that guy can't make a decent ending for anything longer than a novella. Gary Whitta strikes me as a dude that would appreciate well constructed feedback, he has to or he wouldn't have lasted as a screen writer and gotten the job to write one of the Star Wars spin-off movies.

Funny you would mentioned that, after Finishing Abomination I picked up King's The Mist, which I have seen (and love) the movie adaptation of - and that has the best ending it could have had!!

Also Book of Eli is awesome, except the second-ending which was tacked on because of focus testing (or screening feedback or what you call it), as I understand.

@quipido: it doesn't, I'd usually just give my opinion but was reading that other post directly before posting here.

Have some inspiration to go and read the hard copy. I finished the ebook before the hardcover arrived. See if there's any truth in real books being better than ebooks as I can't recall reading a physical book since moving to Hong Kong 5 years ago.

@quipido: I'm in the camp that the movie is actually better than the story as the ending of the movie stuck with me better than the story.

@quipido: Stephen King's The Mist is a novella that is part of a short story collection called Skeleton Crew. When ever one of King's novellas get adapted into movies they almost always get released as stand alone books. See also Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, and Secret Window.

@bartok: Yes, I have read Apt Pupil years ago and loved it, I picked up The Mist because it's fairly short and that suits me at the moment. Thanks for the recommendatins though!!

Well this sucks. I wrote a big post about my thoughts on the book but I guess I took to long and when I hit submit my post disappeared...

To summarise, for me the book was a let down. I was expecting a lot more from Gary than was probably warranted and I found his writing to be really bland and boring which really hampered my enjoyment. I found myself skimming sentences because they really didn't have much to say in the first place or if they did they were almost unnecessary.

I think it was more a time and place thing for me and I'd have enjoyed it more if I went in just for a fun pulpy story rather than a great book.