An authoritarian Uncle, a deficient Encyclopedia, a man made of spoons and saucers, the comet Xanderspot, invading armies, a voracious Orange Roughy, Li'l Orphan Annie, a WWI dogfight, a giant house-stealing bird, Goodman's Good Brown Beer, Horace Pelwit (Private Eye) the discovery of Up, a trip to the Moon in a hollow wooden cow, a murderous grandmother, policemen riding giant bumblebees, alchemists, generals, potters, presidents, novelists, the end of the world, the beginning of the world. A fine thick novel.
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By Jughead McPhootle
Oct 15, 2009
"A "gravity's rainbow" for our time" and all that implies! it's so exuberantly over-the-top imaginative, and so wilfully strange that you can't help liking it. I read a version of it a long time ago, so I don't know how close this one is to the verison I read. Buy the cheap version, it's "good!"
