David Thorne is probably known to most of the internet as the guy who does fake email chains. His most famous meme was a run where someone was asking a graphic designer to make a free missing cat poster. If you liked that, you will likely enjoy his books.

Crows, Paupa New Guinea, and Boats is Thorne’s newest book, featuring some material from his website along with new stories. As much as I like his writing, it’s all new to me because [26b/6)(http://www.27bslash6.com/index.htmlj doesn’t have an RSS feed, so I don’t keep up with it. Yes, I know that makes me an internet old guy.

I really enjoyed his last book from a couple years ago, Walk It Off Princess which had this entire section about his childhood campground in Australia was embarrassingly laugh out loud. The new book elicited just as many what’s from my wife on the couch next to me.

Humor is subjective though, what I find hilarious you might find tiresome or smug. However if you think that annoying his neighbor by repeatedly calling Country Farm Emo is funny, Thorne is going to be your kind of writer.

The best thing about most of the personal essays here is that their truth is plausible enough that you don’t question the exaggerations that make the joke. There’s just enough real life in these stories that feel grounded when everything goes off the rails, even if they are fictional.

What most people know Thorne for is his fake email chains. There’s a couple in here, including a hilarious exchange at the beginning with Ricky Gervais about the blurb on the cover. For some who spends most of the book writing in first person, Thorne is adept at changing voice so it doesn’t read like something copy and pasted on Facebook. (Like and Share if this totally real conversation moved you.)

I read most of this in a single evening, the book is only around 150 pages. It was perfectly paced for this type of book. Humor and internet collections, although only some of this was previously published, might be a tough sell for some readers. So while I love this, it might be an acquired taste.

Farm Emo really needs to catch on. Country Music is unbearable in most cases, so calling it Farm Emo really puts a nice ring to the absurdity. (Obviously it's mocking Spock haircuts and mall rock Emo, not DC hardcore with a melody Emo.)