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This was a lot of morbid fun. The story is centered on our hero, Marvin Snicks. Marvin is the head inspector in the Sassy Starlet High Heel Factory and things haven't been going so well lately. His life seems to be falling apart and the source of all his misery is a frog that sits outside his window and croaks all night long. The croaking is driving him mad and we get ringside seats to the crackup.
There's something of Toole's Ignatius J. Reilly in ole Marvin Snicks. There's no mention of pyloric valves here, but the slight resemblance still tickles at the back of my mind. My evidence for this assertion wouldn't hold up in a court of law, but maybe Marvin is the country cousin? Either way, this book works wonderfully as a palette cleanser after a longer, denser book. A way to quickly decompress after being completely absorbed in another world without risking the psychic bends. Four stars.
This was a lot of morbid fun. The story is centered on our hero, Marvin Snicks. Marvin is the head inspector in the Sassy Starlet High Heel Factory and things haven't been going so well lately. His life seems to be falling apart and the source of all his misery is a frog that sits outside his window and croaks all night long. The croaking is driving him mad and we get ringside seats to the crackup.
There's something of Toole's Ignatius J. Reilly in ole Marvin Snicks. There's no mention of pyloric valves here, but the slight resemblance still tickles at the back of my mind. My evidence for this assertion wouldn't hold up in a court of law, but maybe Marvin is the country cousin? Either way, this book works wonderfully as a palette cleanser after a longer, denser book. A way to quickly decompress after being completely absorbed in another world without risking the psychic bends. Four stars.