I didn't mind this story, though I didn't think it was all
that funny. I laughed in a couple of places, though.
Dave, I think you may have done the story a disservice by building it up as hilarious in the intro. Humour is
very subjective. It might have been better just to say that
you found it hilarious (which I expect you meant to imply by saying it's funny, but some people will take it as you meaning it's intrinsically funny for everyone).
I liked that the author had a 'magic vs. technology' battle sorts and liked even more that the technology won.
Like eytanz and Listener, I liked the reading, though I felt that the completed recording could have used a going-through to remove all the mouth-smacking noises, which got distracting at times. (And yes, I do go through my own recordings and remove at least the worst of those noises.)
The only real problem I had with it was that I didn't realize that Skatouioannis was a shit-demon until that became important to the story.
I got it a little sooner than that. I was able to relate the English translation of his name - "Shitty John" [hah! just got the pun in the second name there] - to the poo-related 'pranks', which were, of course, not really pranks at all, but measures to keep George from leaving home.
What
I didn't get was why Skatouioannis was doing all that crap. Did I miss a mention somewhere that the MC's parents had invoked him in order to keep their kid at home and 'safe' (perhaps accidentally, as a result of the childhood threats they dumped on him)? Or was Skatouioannis doing all that on his own recognisance, just to be an asshole
*?
*(See what I did there?
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