From my skimming, I'm afraid the author is only picking up one of the three things that make The Poignant Guide, well, poignant. 1) Witty, offbeat humor (w/ +1

From my skimming, I'm afraid the author is only picking up one of the three things that make The Poignant Guide, well, poignant. 1) Witty, offbeat humor (w/ +1 for cartoons) 2) Interesting examples tackled 3) Restructuring the lesson to work for people who have learning styles unappreciated by typical tutorials. I'm seeing routine examples like summing recursively/with foldr and implementing linked lists all within an outline not so different from any other Haskell tutorial. Of course, the real acid test is seeing what zany metaphor the author thinks up to describe monads with.