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Androids from Milk (Dedalus Europe)
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1734081 in Books
- Published on: 2001-11-20
- Original language: German
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 210 pages
Editorial Reviews
Synopsis
An anarchic, surreal and zany novel which reads like Kafka rewritten by Monthy Python. Reuben Hecht has been stuck at the age of 17 since he ran away to the Ivory Coast twenty years ago. His mother regularly beats him with a wooden spoon to make him complete his pictorial assignments for the Holy German Paintbrush Distance Learning Academy; his father has taken to his bed to hatch out a dwarf. After attending a concert by the rock group 'The Flesh-Eating Fetishist Nanny Goats', Reuben decides not to return home, as he has heard reports that his parents are dead and the family GP and the parish priest are pursuing him to put him in a children's home for good, since he will never come of age. This starts him off on a surreal odyssey in which the owner of a freak show sends him, together with Edwina, who can switch age at will, to the mysterious Colony to bring back some of the androids developed from UHT milk that have been reported there.
Customer Reviews
Pointless surealism?
If you're looking for a conventional narrative and all plot threads to be nicely tied by the end then maybe this book isn't for you. On the other hand if you find a sense of mischeiveous fun reward enough then read on. Personally I much prefer any story that leaves more questions in my head than answers and if some of the (often seemingly throw away) plot jumps don't send your mind of on an intriging tangent then you could be lacking that fundamental substance - imagination.
Or maybe the author's own words should be heeded, he did, after all, write this in two hours so what more would you expect?
An anarchic, surreal and zany waste of time.
Yes, it does read like Kafka rewritten by Monty Python. Some sections of the book are reminiscent of elements from Terry Gilliams cult film Brazil for their twisted surrealness. If you get off on the 'anarchic, surreal and zany' simply for the sake of it then you may enjoy this book. But don't expect any statisfactory conclusions to be made or any insights gained nor plotlines drawn together as you reach the end. A pointless read. Unless I missed something in all the chaos...?
