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Summary: Blaylock's best!
Review: Well, certainly his best outside Twombly Town ;-) This fantastic book is hilarious and heartwarming and reminds me of the movie "The 'burbs", in that an average, if slightly nutty, guy defends his turf from unspeakable evil. Otherwise I'd describe Blaylock's works as H.P. Lovecraft meets "The Wind in the Willows" ... yet so much more madcap.
Rating:
Summary: Blaylock's best!
Review: Well, certainly his best outside Twombly Town ;-) This fantastic book is hilarious and heartwarming and reminds me of the movie "The 'burbs", in that an average, if slightly nutty, guy defends his turf from unspeakable evil. Otherwise I'd describe Blaylock's works as H.P. Lovecraft meets "The Wind in the Willows" ... yet so much more madcap. The prose isn't florid like Lovecraft's, nor are there talking rodents, but the book has a theme of strange supernatural currents underlying everyday life, and like 'Wind in the Willows' and the rest of Blaylock's books, has a very masculine sensibility. Hmm. Not masculine as in macho or brutish, his characters are sensitive new age guys, but masculine in the sense of a sort of Sherlock Holmesy boy's club way. Great fun. The hero is an aspiring bed-and-breakfast owner and chef of sorts who lets out a room to a man whom noone else seems to think is a phony. It turns out he's far worse than that.
Rating: 
Summary: Quirky is an understatement
Review: Yes its a good book, but its quite bizarre. I learned the basic plot from the back cover before I started reading it, but I had some trouble in the beginning. You would think it would be intense, mysterious, with good and evil forces battling for control of the world, and I suppose it is, but not like a Tim Powers novel. It will swing from supernatural intense moments to wacky.I had real trouble relating to Andrew V., the protagonist, because he is so neurotic. Neurotic in a entertaining and sweet way, but its a weird balancing act to go from evil in one moment to bizarre in another.
Rating:
Summary: Quirky is an understatement
Review: Yes its a good book, but its quite bizarre. I learned the basic plot from the back cover before I started reading it, but I had some trouble in the beginning. You would think it would be intense, mysterious, with good and evil forces battling for control of the world, and I suppose it is, but not like a Tim Powers novel. It will swing from supernatural intense moments to wacky. I had real trouble relating to Andrew V., the protagonist, because he is so neurotic. Neurotic in a entertaining and sweet way, but its a weird balancing act to go from evil in one moment to bizarre in another.
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