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The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse
by Robert Rankin
funny
While reading, I thought, this book is the opposite of a cozy. LOL It's about a thirteen-year-old boy who travels to the land of toys and has adventures with a talking teddy bear, what could be cuter? But Toy City is also the land of hard-boiled detective tropes, so the pair spend the book day drinking, visiting a brothel, and solving a serial killer case. If this collision of clashing moods made you laugh, you will love this book. If you just wrinkled your nose, don't even pick it up.
A minor recurring joke helped me nail down a pet peeve of mine. "Scholars might say [fill in something abstract and thinky] but they need to get a life and a girlfriend." Why is it always a girlfriend, and never a boyfriend? Is it because the picture in one's head of a scholar is a (straight) man? Or is it because getting a woman in your life, specifically, is the guaranteed way to make sure you no longer think about any "difficult" or abstract topics? Everyone knows women just think about shoe shopping and makeup, right? This joke sounds innocent, but there is a lot of baggage connected to it.
A minor recurring joke helped me nail down a pet peeve of mine. "Scholars might say [fill in something abstract and thinky] but they need to get a life and a girlfriend." Why is it always a girlfriend, and never a boyfriend? Is it because the picture in one's head of a scholar is a (straight) man? Or is it because getting a woman in your life, specifically, is the guaranteed way to make sure you no longer think about any "difficult" or abstract topics? Everyone knows women just think about shoe shopping and makeup, right? This joke sounds innocent, but there is a lot of baggage connected to it.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual content, Vomit, Murder, Alcohol
Underage drinking, underage sex (with similarly aged partner). Prostitution. Other than that, mostly genre-typical tropes for a gritty hardboiled detective story, except half the characters are living toys. Yeah.