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100pagesaday's review
3.0
Another short story that I read on Christmas, a science fiction tale of squirrels and what might happen if they were able to learn as humans do. When a TV is left in an enclosed space in the woods, Mr. Tucker, a squirrel and his other squirrel followers take to watching it and learning from it. Mr. Tucker likes to takes Sunday drives with the man who left the TV. When something is different about the gas station that his human companion goes to. Mr. Tucker and the squirrels use their knowledge to help out.
Yay for squirrels! In this short story, a lonely older man finds solace within a special squirrel that has taken to his abandoned television. Something so ordinary to us has been taken to a different place with Mr. Tucker. In a weird turn of events at the strange gas station, I'm glad that the squirrels were able to save the day.
Yay for squirrels! In this short story, a lonely older man finds solace within a special squirrel that has taken to his abandoned television. Something so ordinary to us has been taken to a different place with Mr. Tucker. In a weird turn of events at the strange gas station, I'm glad that the squirrels were able to save the day.
sjj169's review
4.0
Ever wake up from a weird dream thinking it was real? That's this book. It's pure fun, with just a touch of gruesome.
It's a short little bit so I'm not going to tell you much. Just read it.
PS Mr. Tucker for the win. We need some more of him.
It's a short little bit so I'm not going to tell you much. Just read it.
PS Mr. Tucker for the win. We need some more of him.
b0okcupidity's review
4.0
I read this while watching Total Recall during a rare moment when my kids were otherwise occupied - my husband and I commandeered the television, switching off Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas that has been playing on repeat for a week.
Oddly, watching the first 40 minutes of Total Recall while reading this worked. I think it's because they're both weird.
A good weird.
In between quoting lines together (I've got five kids to feed!), I took a romp to a place somewhere east of bizarro land.. I'm not going to pretend that I know enough about this genre to label it such, but Mr. Tucker & Me doesn't really land squarely in any genre in my mind. It's weird, it's a little unsettling, it's strangely sweet. The story is short enough that to elaborate on any of those points, I'd be spoiling it too much.
I don't pretend to be an expert on how 'good' this is overall...I read mostly historical romances and before that mysteries, and before that thrillers. But little weird books have been something I've been more interested in as of late, say, in the last year or two. Maybe someday soon I'll graduate to big weird books...
When I was younger, my friends would watch these small time indie movies and sit around and discuss them over drinks for hours. It was part of being cool I guess. I just nodded along and enjoyed their company. Now, however, I see the brilliant observations too late to add anything to the conversation.
This is the long way of saying that I've been branching out - trying to get ahead of the curve a bit for myself.
Fluff in, fluff out after all. I need some grit sometimes for everything to smooth out in the end.
So, anyway, this was worth the time and the read, and really, it's so short everyone should give it a go!
Oddly, watching the first 40 minutes of Total Recall while reading this worked. I think it's because they're both weird.
A good weird.
In between quoting lines together (I've got five kids to feed!), I took a romp to a place somewhere east of bizarro land.. I'm not going to pretend that I know enough about this genre to label it such, but Mr. Tucker & Me doesn't really land squarely in any genre in my mind. It's weird, it's a little unsettling, it's strangely sweet. The story is short enough that to elaborate on any of those points, I'd be spoiling it too much.
I don't pretend to be an expert on how 'good' this is overall...I read mostly historical romances and before that mysteries, and before that thrillers. But little weird books have been something I've been more interested in as of late, say, in the last year or two. Maybe someday soon I'll graduate to big weird books...
When I was younger, my friends would watch these small time indie movies and sit around and discuss them over drinks for hours. It was part of being cool I guess. I just nodded along and enjoyed their company. Now, however, I see the brilliant observations too late to add anything to the conversation.
This is the long way of saying that I've been branching out - trying to get ahead of the curve a bit for myself.
Fluff in, fluff out after all. I need some grit sometimes for everything to smooth out in the end.
So, anyway, this was worth the time and the read, and really, it's so short everyone should give it a go!
charshorrorcorner's review
4.0
I loved this short story!
That said I have few words to describe it and no words to categorize it.
It was fun, it made me smile and chuckle, but it also made me a little sad for the main character who had been married for many years and then lost his wife.
I have to respect and admire an imagination that is so full of the weird and entertaining.
Thanks, Gregor for this free story. It was wonderful!
That said I have few words to describe it and no words to categorize it.
It was fun, it made me smile and chuckle, but it also made me a little sad for the main character who had been married for many years and then lost his wife.
I have to respect and admire an imagination that is so full of the weird and entertaining.
Thanks, Gregor for this free story. It was wonderful!
kingjason's review
4.0
You know how it is, you want to go for a nice Sunday drive with the leader of an army of squirrels but you're out of fuel for the old pickup and when you go to the local garage it has been taken over and there are weird creatures everywhere! No? Well give this great short story a go and see what you are missing out on.
Things I loved about this book, the cover is cool, a pencil drawing of a squirrel, the mighty stead of the gnome. Nothing is explained, there is no moral at the end, everything is left to the reader's imagination. I pictured Mr. Tucker in a Generals jacket, with sunglasses on and a teeny tiny cigar in his mouth.
Give this fun story a go, will only take you 10min and will give you a laugh.
Blog review> https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2018/12/16/mr-tucker-me-by-gregor-xane/
Things I loved about this book, the cover is cool, a pencil drawing of a squirrel, the mighty stead of the gnome. Nothing is explained, there is no moral at the end, everything is left to the reader's imagination. I pictured Mr. Tucker in a Generals jacket, with sunglasses on and a teeny tiny cigar in his mouth.
Give this fun story a go, will only take you 10min and will give you a laugh.
Blog review> https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2018/12/16/mr-tucker-me-by-gregor-xane/
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