Horrible horrible horrible, particularly the first two. Trust me, I'm not saying this just for effect. They take 'dark' to a whole new level - like stHorrible horrible horrible, particularly the first two. Trust me, I'm not saying this just for effect. They take 'dark' to a whole new level - like staring down into a bottomless pit. Yet absolutely brilliant, more of a review later (maybe) once I've recuperated....more
Bite me?! I鈥檓 disappointed. Crazy for whales, a Moore fan and the main character鈥檚 from where I live, seemed like a no brainer. Well, not this time - Bite me?! I鈥檓 disappointed. Crazy for whales, a Moore fan and the main character鈥檚 from where I live, seemed like a no brainer. Well, not this time - I like funny crude, this is more the kind you catch 12 year olds snickering over. A third in I gave up, not due to any maiden aunt sensibilities - it was just鈥�lame. Click spoiler for a taste if you鈥檙e undecided, this was my 'enough' point... (view spoiler)[鈥淪uddenly, out of the water on either side of them came two huge penises, the males searching for their mark, moving closer to the female, producing waves that knocked the two women into the floor of the boat. Above them the two pink towers curved around looking for their target, feeling the edges of the boat, running slime across the rubber, over the biologists, poking, beating about, and generally abusing the women. The female now had the Zodiac centered exactly over her genitals, using the rubber boat as an ad hoc diaphragm.鈥� (hide spoiler)] Alrighty then...
It does have good points, Kona the surfer dude is a hoot, I鈥檇 just rather move onto one of his tastier books - Lamb appeals. Done slamming now, leave off on a lighter note.
鈥淣ate had been born and raised in British Columbia, and Canadians hate, above all things, to offend. It was part of the national consciousness. 鈥淏e polite鈥� was an unwritten, unspoken rule, but ingrained into the psyche of an entire country. Of course, as with any rule, there were exceptions: parts of Quebec, where people maintained the 鈥渄ismissive to the point of confrontation, with subsequent surrender鈥� mind-set of the French; and hockey, in which any Canadian may, with impunity, slam, pummel, elbow, smack, punch, body-check, and beat the shit out of, with sticks, any other human being, punctuated by profanities, name-calling, questioning parentage, and accusations of bestiality, usually鈥攃oincidentally鈥攊n French.鈥�