Stuff and Nonsense by Andrew Seiple

The only reason Stuff and Nonsense is not young adult (YA) is that it contains a handful of gratuitous swear words. There is no sex, nothing offensive that can’t be a word skipped when reading it to a 5 year old as a bed time story. Not sure why this has legions of fans and 5-star ratings – maybe it’s the popular trend of our video game/roll playing obsession.

Frankly, I wanted to punch that guy that kept popping out of the text giving the golum-bear points for each level of intelligence achieved or task completed. Sounds like that obnoxious infomercial guy that screams “BUT WAIT’. Annoying distraction that made it difficult to listen to or enjoy the story.

The cover is awesome. The unabridged audiobook is just shy of eleven hours of listening released by Podium Publishing in June 2018. Stuff and Nonsense is written by Andrew Seiple and narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds.

Maybe it’s better in written format, but the audio version is not recommended – unless you’re a a die-hard fantasy fan or a small child.