Rexroi
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Publisher: Steven Sommers
Copyright:
© 2006 Standard Copyright License
Language: English
Country: United States
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Printed: 281 pages, 6" x 9", perfect binding, black and white interior ink Description:Using the traditional fraternity form of a lesson book for new brothers, Bill ‘Little Kid Guy’ Gates, Jr. explains how -– as fraternity social director –- he arranged the parties for Homecoming, got a puppy, lost his girlfriend, became a nude model for a powerful hairdresser, freed a kidnapped NSA scientist, defeated a madman bent on Armageddon, and almost became the King of the World. Bill’s first lesson: Listen to your nightmares. Listed in: |
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There is no reason to assume that Steve Sommers was a self-important twerp in college. After all, this is fiction. From the other goings-on in the novel, I doubt that this is a reality-based roman à clef. But I have to give credit: Gary Gates (or, as the "King of the World" calls him, General Monkey Dance) is an all too believable obnoxious frat boy protagonist.
Happily, the results are consistently entertaining. Gary may be insufferable, but his egocentric narration perfectly complements the bizarre scenario. On the one hand, we never care much about Gary as a person. He often causes his own problems, and at times crosses the line from obnoxious to outright loathsome. But on the other, his tart recital lends the proper bitterness to a tale that otherwise would deflate under the weight of its own essential silliness. Indeed, reading Rexroi is a bit like watching an inebriated frat boy perform a monkey dance on a ledge: a bit uncomfortable for the audience, but also quite amusing if you're in the right mood, and, perhaps against your better judgment, impossible to turn away from.
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