- Paperback: 221 pages
- Publisher: Red Deer College Press,Canada; paperback / softback edition (14 Aug 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0889954151
- ISBN-13: 978-0889954151
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 18.3 x 1.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,189,065 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A lot of fun!, 9 July 2009
By BLK3333 - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Valley of Day-Glo (Hardcover)
A back cover blurb that compares this story to Vonnegut mixed with Douglas Adams is right on target. I loved this book. It was page after page of funny, post modern satire poking fun at everything from popular film titles to multi-level marketing in a wacky post-apocalyptic romp.
Imaginative, bizarre and an absurdly unforgettable story.
I wish I hadn't read it so I could read it for the first time again!
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Great!, 19 Dec 2011
By ANS - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Valley of Day-glo (Paperback)
I received this item fast and in condition described. I love this writer. All of his books are so unique. He surely has a way of writing.
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Cheer for a sufferer of doofus protagonitis, 13 Aug 2010
By Mark A. Rayner "Release your inner monkey!" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Valley of Day-Glo (Hardcover)
Valley of Day-Glo is the story of Broadway Danny Rose, a member of a confused Iroquois nation that has forgone traditional names for names ripped off IMBD. Except, they're not getting them off IMDB, because that doesn't exist anymore, you know, with the bizarre ecological apocalypse that has destroyed Western civilization and all. (Purportedly a nuclear war, but I don't know, the landscape seems unlikely.)
Apart from living in a wasteland, Broadway Danny Rose suffers from erectile dysfunction, an overbearing mother (appropriately named Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe) and that age old problem, doofus protagonitis.
You may have missed the lecture on doofus protagonitis in your survey of English literature. It is the syndrome suffered by protagonists in satires. Think Don Quixote, think Gulliver, think Yosarian. You see, they tend to be unable to control what is happening to them, though they may be able to demonstrate their humanity to the reader as the author messes with him. Danny is one of the latter kinds of doofusi, and this is one of the things that will keep you turning the page -- you just want to see how this whole thing is going to turn out for Danny. You really hope it's going to be okay.
Nick DiChario is a talented writer, and he deftly takes us through his apocalyptic satire, which is at times absurd (the jacket cover claims it is in the tradition of Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut, but I think more of the latter), bizarre and entertaining.
Recommended!
A warning: don't waste valuable time trying to decipher the traditional Iroquois names. They're not all puns. If they ever do a second edition, they should put the author's note at the front, and save us all headaches, eyestrain, and the suspicion that we're idiots for not being able to figure it out.
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