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Summary: Long Pig Makes You Shake Your Head
Review: William C. Miller, author of "Long Pig," is the kind of man you'd like to have sitting across from you at dinner. He can tell a story with humor. His ear for dialogue is near-perfect. He has experience enough to skewer the party blow-hard's pet political and cultural theories and smile as he does it. He also has expertise enough to lend credence to any skewering he chooses to do.
Those qualities that might make him excellent dinner companion also give this, his first novel, a leg up the ladder of literature-possibly to a rung on a best-seller list. It's fresh and fun and implausible and irreverent. A Berkeley graduate, this man can write. So pull up a chair for the feast. When was the last time you heard San Franciscans mentioned in the same breath as cannibals?
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of "This is the Place"
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Summary: Long Pig Makes You Shake Your Head
Review: William C. Miller, author of "Long Pig," is the kind of man you'd like to have sitting across from you at dinner. He can tell a story with humor. His ear for dialogue is near-perfect. He has experience enough to skewer the party blow-hard's pet political and cultural theories and smile as he does it. He also has expertise enough to lend credence to any skewering he chooses to do.
Those qualities that might make him excellent dinner companion also give this, his first novel, a leg up the ladder of literature-possibly to a rung on a best-seller list. It's fresh and fun and implausible and irreverent. A Berkeley graduate, this man can write. So pull up a chair for the feast. When was the last time you heard San Franciscans mentioned in the same breath as cannibals?
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of "This is the Place"
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Summary: A Lawyer's View of Long Pig
Review: As a lawyer who has had experience in courtrooms throughout the United States and in many other countries, I was delighted to read William Miller's very funny exploration of our legal and political systems. He has a very deft way of examining the inadequacies of our system by holding up somewhat exagerated examples in a way that demands laughter. And, he does this in good taste and good fun. Political correctness has met its match in Mr. Miller.
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Summary: No diminished capacity here, folks.
Review: Long Pig is a story about Penny Hill and her defense against criminal charges brought upon her. The story
progresses through a series of episodes. Each episode presents a specific social issue on a silver platter, which is
then decimated by the choices made by the multitude of antagonists. Throughout the book, the principles grown
accustomed to by our modern culture are applied to hypothetical situations. Each hypothetical brings a specific issue
to it's fullest potential in a matter-of-fact fashion. The author elevates each social issue to a level of....fantasy in
order to shine light on how a city such as San Francisco generates an endless circle of conflicts and resolutions,
conflicts and resolutions...followed by more conflict. If you wish to blow off steam from frustrations created by the
liberal tendencies surrounding you, read this book.
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Summary: No diminished capacity here, folks.
Review: Long Pig is a story about Penny Hill and her defense against criminal charges brought upon her. The story
progresses through a series of episodes. Each episode presents a specific social issue on a silver platter, which is
then decimated by the choices made by the multitude of antagonists. Throughout the book, the principles grown
accustomed to by our modern culture are applied to hypothetical situations. Each hypothetical brings a specific issue
to it's fullest potential in a matter-of-fact fashion. The author elevates each social issue to a level of....fantasy in
order to shine light on how a city such as San Francisco generates an endless circle of conflicts and resolutions,
conflicts and resolutions...followed by more conflict. If you wish to blow off steam from frustrations created by the
liberal tendencies surrounding you, read this book.
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Summary: A provocative, engaging, and highly recommended novel
Review: Long Pig: A Fantasy Concerning Cannibals, Courts, And Other Consumers by William C. Miller is a provocative, engaging, and highly recommended novel about the media circus ensues when a woman accidentally kills a street person and is then put on trial. No one and nothing is held sacred in this dark comedy that offers a skewed look at the greed and machinations of politicians, judges, activists, and many more. Perhaps the only hope of true justice lies in the divine intervention of "Big Mouth", the deity of cannibalistic islanders, in this chaotic and frenzied mix-up.
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Summary: Long Pig, A Fantasy Concerning Cannibals, Courts and Other C
Review: San Franciscans are wierd, San Franciso's politicians are outrageous and San Francisco's legal community challenges credibility...which is to say, "the City" is terrific...In Long Pig, San Francisco's multi-cultural melting pot boils over under the stirring of Miller's comedic genius. His account of the bumbling and venial antics of his four mayoral candidates rivals the best of contemporary (or non contemporary, for that matter) humorous fiction...and speaking of fiction, Miller describes his book as such, but I wonder. Everytime I open my Chronicle now I think "Is Miller imitating life or is life imitating Miller"..Whatever, this book is a hoot! I can't wait to see what other "Institutions" Miller will descrate with his insightful and irreverant pen.
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Summary: Exceptionally creative
Review: This is a charming and exceptionally creative work. It evokes images ranging from Waugh to 1930's "screwball comedy" movies. Despite the fact that the author exposes a range of human weaknesses, the story is never malicious. To the contrary, it is warm and understanding. It's as though God is observing His/Her children with a mixture of amusement and sadness.People in the Bay Area in particular should enjoy this work, which is set in San Francisco and uses the city's colorful political scene as its backdrop.
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Summary: Exceptionally creative
Review: This is a charming and exceptionally creative work. It evokes images ranging from Waugh to 1930's "screwball comedy" movies. Despite the fact that the author exposes a range of human weaknesses, the story is never malicious. To the contrary, it is warm and understanding. It's as though God is observing His/Her children with a mixture of amusement and sadness. People in the Bay Area in particular should enjoy this work, which is set in San Francisco and uses the city's colorful political scene as its backdrop.
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Summary: Long Pig Makes You Shake Your Head
Review: William C. Miller, author of "Long Pig," is the kind of man you'd like to have sitting across from you at dinner. He can tell a story with humor. His ear for dialogue is near-perfect. He has experience enough to skewer the party blow-hard's pet political and cultural theories and smile as he does it. He also has expertise enough to lend credence to any skewering he chooses to do.
Those qualities that might make him excellent dinner companion also give this, his first novel, a leg up the ladder of literature-possibly to a rung on a best-seller list. It's fresh and fun and implausible and irreverent. A Berkeley graduate, this man can write. So pull up a chair for the feast. When was the last time you heard San Franciscans mentioned in the same breath as cannibals?
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of "This is the Place"
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