Monsieur Pamplemousse

Rating:
Summary: Like Reading a TV Skit
Review: From the point near the beginning where the master asks his dog to confirm that the sauce has too much salt, to the point where the lady of the house is successfully tricked into thinking that the puppet she just made love to was a real man, the reader is constantly challenged to find anything in the plot of this book that does not strain credulity. If you can treat it like a TV skit and simply accept it, you may have fun with this book. My wife certainly did, and toward the end I too found a smile on my face as I bought increasingly into the book's absurdities, like a mathematician smiling at a student's interesting but ultimately flawed computations. So I give it a "5" for the good times.