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Burnt (Wordcraft Speculative Writers Series, #14)

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This is one of the funniest novels I ever read -- but the scarey thing is that it is a spot-on portrait of a big slice of our world today, from the sports madness to the poison water and mad squirrils as well as the murderous instincts we would rather not acknowledge. An instant classic!
TEK

An interesting and fun novel mixing bizarre elements of sci-fi, pop-culture and academia. A good break from the pompous "literary" writers and the standard sci-fi/fantasy fare, but still filled with ideas well worth looking at. Fans of Phillip K. Dick's later work would probably love this.

This is one of the funniest books I've ever read. If you like De Lillo's White Noise, you'll love Burnt. Highly recommended

This is one of those odd books that is unclassifiable. I felt sorry for the football player, as they do belong on college campuses, not in the cemetery, but I recognize that many academics think the worst of them, but although I liked the steel-eating squirrels, and the prose style is superb, the football player I liked best of all, and all of my sympathy went with him -- an unintended effect probably, but I just love sports players, and think that eggheads are too mean in defending their turf, a remainder envy from not getting picked in grade school but getting picked on, but still, this didn't ruin the novel for me, it just raised all kinds of ethical-social questions that heightened the experience of this book.

The cover looked kinda crazy so I picked it up having no idea what it was. This isn't your average sci-fi novel. It's really funny and more of a modern world setting with outrageous things happening to outrageously eccentric people on a college campus. It reminds me of some of William Browning Spencer's stuff, but I like this better.