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Note, that like most authors and booksellers, I have provided only some of the review, using a lot of '........'s' for places which were boring or too negative for my taste.... However, I have not in any way altered the sequence of words or the words that you see -- only dropped out sentences or parts of sentences.

TITLE INFORMATION
SKUNKVILLE SAGA
War & Peace for the YouTube Generation
Morton, John
Manuscript (694 pp.)
August 16, 2012

BOOK REVIEW
A relentless, bizarre phantasmagoria?????? Few reading experiences match this one. Its structure [is] reminiscent of a radio play???.To say this book has a nontraditional plot fails to capture the vast gulf between it and most works of fiction. It doesn???t develop so much as continue, endlessly, deeper down a rabbit hole of absurdity???.. It constantly breaks from typical storytelling: When characters die, they often reform as cyborgs or clones; real-world places are radically different than in reality; real people, including the current and former presidents, arise as characters???..There???s a plot in there somewhere???. characters include a doll with a corroded face, a dog-headed man, a talking bulldog restaurateur, a killer robot???Justin Bieber as a ???mischief scout???. a godlike being known as the Great Badger, and many others???..Totally unpredictable???In the madcap atmosphere, the narrative sometimes veers into deeply disturbing, offensive territory???.. Some readers may enjoy this bizarre brand of humor, which requires full immersion; however, most readers will find the subject
matter and aesthetics beyond the bounds of taste. This otherworldly ???novel will appeal to only the most adventurous readers.
Kirkus Indie, Kirkus Media LLC, 6411 Burleson Rd., Austin, TX 78744
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