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Under My Roof (Soft Skull ShortLit) by Nick Mamatas
Book Summary InformationAuthor: Nick Mamatas Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2007-02-28 ISBN: 1933368438 Number of pages: 151 Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Book Reviews of Under My Roof (Soft Skull ShortLit)Book Review: More Fun Than A Barrel Of Monkeys Summary: 5 Stars
This book is an absolute pip! It's easy, breezy, beautiful and wonderful, Wonderful, WONDERFUL! Damned if I can think of a better way to while away a few hours than by reading it.
12 year old Herbert Weinberg is at that lovely time in his life where he doesn't have a care in the world. Well except for having to deal with his own telepathy, his eccentric genius father building a nuclear bomb and declaring the homestead an independent state and the general adult conspiracy against children to raise them up as vaguely unhappy as themselves.
I got more chortles, snickers and outright belly-laughs out of this book than the average P.G. Wodehouse opus. It's like Mamatas has yanked Wodehouse's type of absurdist family farce right out of the Edwardian age and plunked it down in the 21st century where we need it the most. Unfortunately I understand a distributing snafu has delayed wide release of this little gem, but it's well worth the wait. Where else can you find peace treaties in hot dogs, nuclear bombs in garden gnomes and independent states in the back of Convenience Stores?
You owe it to yourself to pick this one up - Everyone wants to be happy, we're just conditioned to think that being vaguely unhappy is what being adult is all about.
Summary of Under My Roof (Soft Skull ShortLit)Herbert Weinberg?s father is striking a blow for freedom. Implanting a nuclear device within a garden gnome in the front yard of their Long Island home, he?s declared independence from the U.S. The household is understandably is an uproar. Mother?s gone, the local weatherman has moved in, and 12-year-old Herbert is simultaneously a hostage and the Minister of Information. A daring raid plucks the lad from his ancestral home, but even while troops surround the belligerent house-state of Weinbergia, the call to freedom has been sounded. The house is rapidly filling up with American refuseniks. Can the refrigerator hold out? And will Herbert?s telepathic powers defeat imperialism and reunite him with his father? Based on Aristophanes?s Archanians, Under My Roof is funny, ambitous novel.
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Northern Gothic: A Novellaby Nick Mamatas Soft Skull Press; Published: 2001-11-15; Paperback; BookBest price: $5.13Price in other shops: $10.00
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