Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse
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| Score | Title | Author | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.3 | Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse | Robert Rankin | Comic Fantasy |
| Technophilia | 9 |
|---|---|
| Secularity | 7 |
| Personal Tilt | 6 |
Robert Rankin, you thief. Give me back my writing style.:)
An oaf by the name of Jack seeks his fortune in the big city and is soon hired as a detective's assistant. He goes on to do a lot of underage driking, to lose his virginity in Mother Goose's brothel, to solve the murder of Humpty Dumpty et alum, to maintain equilibrium in the universe, and to learn that President George W. Bush is worse than Hitler. I am really not kidding about the last one. Unfortunately, that factoid doesn't quite redeem the book.:)
SFX Magazine gave tHCBotA its Best Book of the Year award, but I wasn't impressed nearly as much myself. It suffers from the same problem as the later Pratchetts -- no, Pinkie, you didn't try those; you didn't like the early Pratchetts and could very well like the completely different later ones -- the main character is a judgemental asshole and the book gets didactic on your ass. Unless, of course, the teddy bear is the main character; in that case, the sidekick is a judgemental asshole that gets didactic on your ass.
In either case, your ass gets didacticised and that's nowhere near as butt-fucking animal ass. See, I am only two months behind blog fashions.;)
Some comments made by the teddy bear were of questionable from the atheistic point of view, there was something of an evil technology vibe, and the humour wasn't really intense enough.
A fun and edgy novel nevertheless.:)
