Brian E. (ft-ball-fn) - , reviewed on 9/10/2011 + 33 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

I'm a huge fan of any form of PA fiction... and have read all the classics and most of the modern stuff too. This book started out ok w/a nuclear attack and the characters trying to get to safety, but it quickly swerved into left field (if left field is where Alice went when she fell down the rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland).

I'm sure there were 'messages' and allusions and all that literary stuff in here that expound on western civilization and modern culture and all that... and I wasn't getting it (or caring). I was an English major in college and hated that stuff then too.

If you're looking for talking penguins, people who are robots with people inside, hats that aren't hats, and similar Alice in Wonderland type weirdisms... this book is for you.

If you're looking for a book like Warday, Malevil or Alas Babylon--where people struggle to survive a nuclear attack... look elsewhere. This story pretty much has nothing to do with radiation, starvation, etc... its all about putting the main character on trial (trial by penguins IIRC) for crimes against the world (i.e. not caring about the threat of nukes and capitalizing on people's fears). It was horrible... 0 stars IMO.

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