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Surfing the Web? If Billy had looked a
Anyone can do that! Why not little more carefully at
Try something really radical? the small ad, he might
Access the departed by body-boarding the never have sold his
Necronet. grandma's soul to science.
But he didn't, so he did.
Never has it been more
Easy. All you have to do is The cheque from NECROSOFT
Enter the Soul bounced and all Billy got
Database by taking a left-hand turn off the Information left in the old girl's will
Super-Highway and was the handbag. The
Voodoo Handbag. The talking
You're there. In the Land Voodoo Handbag. The tales
Of the Virtual Dead. Send for details today. it told Billy would change
U know it makes sense. his life forever - and the
lives of other people too.
Those few who still had lives.
In what must surely rank as his most extraordinary work to date, the Teller of Tall Tales has combined his extensive knowledge of the occult with his unique brand of savage humour to produce a Techno-Gothic masterpiece guaranteed to send shivers down the spines of PC users everywhere.
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Woodbine rather unbalanced the plot of They Came And Ate Us, but here he adds some great moments of comic relief, as Rankin’s plot slithers uroboricly back and forth. The plot is a good one, with the very macabre tale of the hero being kept for years in a suitcase and fed a bit at a time to a ravenous voodoo handbag colliding with a mindbending idea where the souls of the dead are downloaded into the mind of God via the ultimate computer. There’s also the requisite number of tall tales embedded in the story, and plenty of great laughs (though these diminish as the plot kicks in during the novels second half).
The one downside is the continued presence of Rankin’s poetry which, amazingly, seems to be even more dire than before. It also has one of those tricksy multiple-choice endings, where you’re not entirely sure if Rankin is being very clever, or he just couldn’t think of a decent way to end the book. Still – an inventive, hilarious, horrifying and deranged book – and another winner from Robert Rankin. Recommended.
The Master of Tall Tales tackles Gatesism, the internet, strange and abominable sexual habits in rural communities, insanity, voodoo and talking sprouts with his usual brand of humour. The plot twists, coils and then turns around and eats itself while you watch.
More fun than dynamiting gophers. Top. Really.
not a classic - but damn good light read and nice escapism from real life.
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