Necrophenia
by:
Robert Rankin (author)
Private eyes, glamorous dames, ukulele maestros, a lost city of gold and millions and millions of zombies? It can only be a Robert Rankin novel!
Private eyes, glamorous dames, ukulele maestros, a lost city of gold and millions and millions of zombies? It can only be a Robert Rankin novel!
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780575078710 (0575078715)
Publish date: December 1st 2008
Publisher: Gollancz
Pages no: 415
Edition language: English
What a colossal waste of time. This attempt at being a younger, edgier Douglas Adams has produced one of the most boring, ego-stroking messes I've read in a long time. Avoid it.
Not the best book by Rankin, he seems to have gotten less funny with age, though his ability to go off on amazing tangents that don't interrupt the plot, rather they contribute by the end, hasn't fainted away at all. However, his lyric writing abilities seems to be on par with the best and any menti...
And I was having a lie-in.