Sean Randall reviewed Mall Purchase Night by Rick Cook
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4 stars
I've wanted to read this book for years, having enjoyed the Wizardry stuff considerably. It was never a local staple, though, so I'm glad to have had the opportunity.
"Y'all know them rats folks have been complaining about? Well, it seems like the suckers have learned to skateboard."
The story is, from start to finish, quite amusing. Not, perhaps, in a laugh-out-loud kind of a way, but lightly funny, all the way through. It combines this fantasy elf motif with the modern day influences of people and their modern forms of corruption to a truly witty end.
"Some red and blue dude is, like, demolishing a Porsche with a crowbar." Slick considered. "Most atypical."
The characters are clearly knock-downs and the mode of speech of some is almost pricelessly hippy-retro. yet the lead character has a good heart which makes things fall neatly into place.
"Excuse me, officer, did you …
I've wanted to read this book for years, having enjoyed the Wizardry stuff considerably. It was never a local staple, though, so I'm glad to have had the opportunity.
"Y'all know them rats folks have been complaining about? Well, it seems like the suckers have learned to skateboard."
The story is, from start to finish, quite amusing. Not, perhaps, in a laugh-out-loud kind of a way, but lightly funny, all the way through. It combines this fantasy elf motif with the modern day influences of people and their modern forms of corruption to a truly witty end.
"Some red and blue dude is, like, demolishing a Porsche with a crowbar." Slick considered. "Most atypical."
The characters are clearly knock-downs and the mode of speech of some is almost pricelessly hippy-retro. yet the lead character has a good heart which makes things fall neatly into place.
"Excuse me, officer, did you see a red-headed midget in knee breeches and a vest come this way?"
All of the characters are rather odd, yet I'd never have pegged a shopping mall as the nexus for any of this freaky stuff. it's hard to give a coherent picture of such an odd novel, it really is. if you like a bit of light modern-day fantastical fantasy with a sprinkling of stereotypes, in-jokes and humour, go for it.