Balls and Walnuts
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Review #2
(4 stars) Snarky satirical SciFi Romp with Metaphysical Meanderings, June 16, 2013
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This review is from: Gator & Shark Save the World (Kindle Edition)
Doug Hoffman’s Gator & Shark Save the World, my first (pre)Summer read, proved to be entertaining and enlightening. What starts off as half teen-coming-of-age and half-Washington-insider-satire gains momentum as heroine Katherine “Shark” Buscage finds herself transformed from martial-arts tomboy to First Daughter to unlikely rescuer of humanity. Along the way, Hoffman sends up multiple presidential administrations (past, present and future), lampoons the Beltway establishment, and spotlights the dark and absurd implications of American Christian Fundamentalism’s obsession with Apocalypse and Rapture. Ambitious? Yes. Readable? Definitely. In line for a Nebula or a Pulitzer? Probably not, but I think you’ll find that this admittedly tall tale becomes a real page-turner with every page you read. But read it quietly – you don’t want to wake the core.
Voila, a well written review. Yay! I want more!
D.
I think the review is quite accurate and gives a good feel for the book.
I promise to leave a review in July when I’ll be on vacation. Right now am in frantic end-of-school-year mode.
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