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Summary: I Interviewed the author!
Review: "I interviewed Mike DiCerto on the AuthorsFirst radio show about his book
"Milky Way Marmalade." This book is awesome! The story just flows; it's
funny. The readers really get to know the characters, who are interesting;
each one different. If you like Douglass Adams' work, this is just as good
(in my humble opinion). Anyone who loves a riotous space adventure should
give this book a try."
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Summary: I Interviewed the author!
Review: "I interviewed Mike DiCerto on the AuthorsFirst radio show about his book
"Milky Way Marmalade." This book is awesome! The story just flows; it's
funny. The readers really get to know the characters, who are interesting;
each one different. If you like Douglass Adams' work, this is just as good
(in my humble opinion). Anyone who loves a riotous space adventure should
give this book a try."
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Summary: Adventure and Rock & Roll on the Galactic Sea of Life-
Review: ...and so much more. Milky Way Marmalade is a trip .
Once you embark on Michael DiCerto's often-demented-yet-virtuous romp to save the Universe, you will find yourself looking at little dogs in a different light and will likely have more respect for marmalade (Orange, to be specific). In fact, you may find yourself looking at everything in a different light.
MWM is SciFi/D&D /Douglas Adams/Chaucer/Hunter Thompson all rolled into one: You won't know what to expect or who or what you'll run into, but you'll have one heckuva time and a great sound track to boot. Along with an assorted cast of loons, near loons, and loons who aren't really loons but instead are just confused loons in need of wisdom (and maybe a few good friends). But there's more...
androids, cute poochies, amorous beings , orange gelatin, egomaniacs, and a poor soul who just wants to play music with his bandmates - what could this possibly all mean?
Please move your tray to the upright position, fasten your seatbelt, sit back and read Milky Way Marmalade. You are about to embark on an amazing journey of insight, hindsight, inside out sight and everything in between.
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Summary: Bruce Von Stiers -...
Review: ...One upcoming release by them is sure to have you either laughing loudly or tossing the book out the nearest window. The title of this new novel is Milky Way Marmalade and was written by Mike Dicerto. This story is as much about rock and roll as it is about galactic travel and mischief. Dicerto has a certain way of looking at things that makes this story appealing to those sci-fi fans who like Douglas Adams tales of the universe or other quirky tales of both the cosmos and time travel. Caffrey Quark is a guy who has a interesting job. At least to some people. He is rather bored with it and wants to retire. Quark is what is known as an exotic meat collector. He collects piece of animals and other beings to be auctioned off for eating of such delicacies as alien butt. Quark comes across an ancient juke box and it changes his life. Up till now, music has been an abhorrence in his life. All of a sudden, finding this jukebox with a record containing Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven is something that has cosmic ramifications for him. Caffrey sells his ship and sets out on a course to change his life. This is done over many objections from his onboard computer Angie. She sort of reminds me of an oversexed Rommie from Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda (but I just finished reviewing several episodes of that show, so who knows). Our guy gets to travel back in time to the late 20th century and hang out in the East Village, a definite strange place, or so I've been told. Caffrey is now going to embark on a new career as a rock musician. But wait. Caffrey had some weird, eccentric uncle named Greppledick who created an android called Poe 33. Supposedly Poe 33 was designed as the Portsmith for the great universal substance known as L'Orange. Somehow Poe has gotten untethered from L'Orange. He will need the assistance of Caffrey to get back to L'Orange, which the author describes as "a cube of orange colored gelatin the size of an average throw pillow." Caffrey declines the offer to help out Poe 33 until one of the members of his rock band gets kidnapped. The Order Determined to overthrow Reality (O.D.O.R.) has a devious plan. But just when it couldn't get any weirder, the book does just that. A little dog that Caffrey brings with him on this jaunt ends up being an alien agent. Can Caffrey rid himself of this pesky terrier, get his friend back and hook Poe 33 up with his gelatin galactic guru? If I told you, they'd have to kill me. Milky Way Marmalade is a quirky, funny tale from someone who is both a little twisted and extremely talented. The chapter headings are especially cool as they are lyrics from some of my favorite rock songs. Having been a teenager in the '70's, these tunes, and this book, have more of a meaning than just a CD of classic rock songs...
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Summary: Milky Way Marmalade: A Great Space Adventure
Review: a GREAT space adventure story with as many layers, rinds, and soundtracks as you care to find and listen to. With classic rock songs as chapter titles, the book is practically "multi-media". As deep as it is silly. It's hard to describe the experience and context of the book: Dr. Seuss vs. Fascists? Indiana Jones vs. Darth Vader? Music vs. muzak? Breakfast condiments as vessels of wisdom? Captain Kirk with an afro and electric guitar? Hamlet on triple the acid? A Monty Python Celestine Propecy? An ode to an era of music that was pure, evocative, powerful, HUMAN, timeless? It's a lot of stuff; fun and serious, very rich. Very worth my time, and I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Milky Way Marmalade: A Great Space Adventure
Review: a GREAT space adventure story with as many layers, rinds, and soundtracks as you care to find and listen to. With classic rock songs as chapter titles, the book is practically "multi-media". As deep as it is silly. It's hard to describe the experience and context of the book: Dr. Seuss vs. Fascists? Indiana Jones vs. Darth Vader? Music vs. muzak? Breakfast condiments as vessels of wisdom? Captain Kirk with an afro and electric guitar? Hamlet on triple the acid? A Monty Python Celestine Propecy? An ode to an era of music that was pure, evocative, powerful, HUMAN, timeless? It's a lot of stuff; fun and serious, very rich. Very worth my time, and I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Very highly recommended
Review: An orange cube of gelatin contains the ultimate knowledge in of the universe. Called L'Orange, or the Akashic Records, or the Philosopher's Stone, or the Universal Hologram, and so on, it contains the past, present and future of all things. In the year 3265, Trinesmart Quark, II, a "procurer" of exotic foods, travels the universe in pursuit of his trade, until he tires of killing exotics merely for the satisfaction of the extremely wealthy and indulged. Soon he finds himself in pursuit of L'Orange and engaged in a surreal adventure.Floating in the vastness of space, Caffrey discovers an ancient jukebox and recovers the sound of 20th century music. Living in a time when music no longer exists, Caffey finds that rock and roll speaks to his soul. His new passion lends new purpose to his life and he retire from procurement to spend his life on 20th century earth. But soon the android Poe 33, Portsmith to L'Orange finds him and ask for help. Suspiciously separated from L'Orange, Poe 33 needs Quark to help him before another entity can capture L'Orange and gain ultimate domination of the universe. Author Michael DiCerto pens a novel that combines the outrageous fun of HITCHHIKER THROUGH THE GALLAXY and Monty Python with the search for cosmic meaning. Exotic imaginings and bizarre adventure lend MILKY WAY MARMALADE an irresistible appeal with its whimsical and outrageous style. Science fiction fans will discover DiCerto's gift of fabulous characterizations and wicked plotting lends a dynamic freshness to the genre. With rich nuances that become at once spiritual and satirical, MILKY WAY MARMALADE belongs on the keeper shelf. Very highly recommended.
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Summary: This one goes to eleven!
Review: DiCerto's MILKY WAY MARMALADE is a hilarious SF romp that should delight fans of Douglas Adams, RED DWARF, Monty Python's Flying Circus and classic rock. If you've always wanted to read a roller coaster adventure that pays tribute to Rush, The Rolling Stones, The Who and dozens of other bands, this is the book for you! I laughed out loud several times, and I loved the characters, especially Uncle Grapppledick and the android Poe 33. Quark Caffrey is a great hero, and DiCerto puts him through his paces--and his guitar licks. Jump on the bandwagon now, or Nefarious Wretch will deny you something wonderful.
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Summary: This one goes to eleven!
Review: DiCerto's MILKY WAY MARMALADE is a hilarious SF romp that should delight fans of Douglas Adams, RED DWARF, Monty Python's Flying Circus and classic rock. If you've always wanted to read a roller coaster adventure that pays tribute to Rush, The Rolling Stones, The Who and dozens of other bands, this is the book for you! I laughed out loud several times, and I loved the characters, especially Uncle Grapppledick and the android Poe 33. Quark Caffrey is a great hero, and DiCerto puts him through his paces--and his guitar licks. Jump on the bandwagon now, or Nefarious Wretch will deny you something wonderful.
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Summary: Loopy, riotous, and high-spirited
Review: Milky Way Marmalade by Mike DiCerto is an unusual and whimsical science fiction adventure that brings together a collector of exotic meats, a blue android, a purple-eyed woman, a dog with a secret, a bizarre quest to save the Wisest Substance in the Universe (known as the mythical L'Orange), and perhaps also all life as well. A loopy, riotous, and high-spirited, original space romp, Milky Way Marmalade is a lot of fun and documents author Mike DiCerto as someone to keep track of!
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