Oh, wait, that's some other crappy novel. In Death by Zamboni, you'll follow our anti-hero Satan Donut through a world of mimes, TV stars, zombies, blockheads, mad scientists, riot grrls, and werewolves. This genre-busting satire shish kabobs the commericial-entertainment state which degrades our lives and makes everyone stupid. But on a happy note, at least you've got your health.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Unauthorized Death By Zamboni Reader Qualification Quiz,
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This review is from: Death by Zamboni (Paperback)
The Unauthorized Death By Zamboni Reader Qualification Quiz designed to determine whether or not you should be allowed to buy a copy of Death By Zamboni or if you must wait for the Death By Zamboni mini-series on CBC(tm).
Answer these questions: 0. No? 1. Have you ever clamped clothes pins on your genitals? 2. Do acid flashbacks accompany thoughts of the Gibb brothers? 3. Have you ever uttered "Zoinks" without intentionally referencing Saturday Morning Cartoons? 4. Have you ever fantasized about making love to someone in mouse ears? 5. Do you prefer your comedians tripped out on amphetamines? 6. Is your personal contact with sweatshops a weekend "Rollback" the prices excursion to Wal-Mart(tm)? 7. Do you get all angsty when you hear the promo words "Who will be voted out tonight?" 8. Are you a fan of books that are "too-sexy-for-maiden-aunts"? 9. Gouda? 10. Do you see things in a Rorschach test? 11. Have you ever, either in this life or the next, made love to a mime after it mimed its way through a death match with Jewish hitmen? 12. Do you see the connection between "it" and "is"? 13. Pink banana hammocks? 14. Do you hide your reading problem from friends and family? 15. Satan Donuts? 16. Does bowling in and around seminal fluid turn you off? 17. Have you ever ridden a Zamboni (nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more, say no more)? 18. Do you have a conscience? 19. Are you a superfreak? If you answered yes to some of these questions Death By Zamboni is for you. Of course, if you answered no to some of these questions Death By Zamboni is for you. If you answered maybe to any of these same questions then Death By Zamboni is also for you -- maybe. But if you answered yes to some of these questions Death By Zamboni isn't for you because you're a half wit who probably can't follow anything more challenging than a really challenging thing. And if you answered no or maybe to some of these questions then you should be ashamed of yourself, but you probably aren't, so maybe you should just give your money to David David anyway because he's earned it by being far cooler than you. Whatever...Death By Zamboni deserves to be read. Can you handle it? Are you man enough to handle it? Do you know what it takes to read Death By Zamboni? It takes brass testicles to read Death By Zamboni. Now sway your hips. Do you hear that clickety clack? Death By Zamboni really is for you.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Mimes, Abrams Tanks, and Linguistically Informed One-liners,
This review is from: Death by Zamboni (Paperback)
WARNING: Some spoilers!
There is no way around it: you have to like nonlinearity, digression clever word play, and randomness to like this book. Do henchman-mimes do it for you? If they do, you'll like this book. Do you like the idea of Bruce Willis getting his groin bit off? Luckily, I enjoy these types of things from time to time. And I can suspend my disbelief long enough to get through a bizzaro book (is that the right term?) like this one. You have to suspend more than your disbelief, you also have to suspend your sense of scale. You have to believe, for example, that Abrams Tanks can pulled out of someone's pocket on a second's notice. As for the main character--though the book is abstract and bizzaro, it also has a hard-boiled detective. I'm not sure this is the fairest comparison, but the main character/ narrator reminded me a lot of Fletch. You remember, the 80s Chevy Chase detective with the one-liners (it was also a novel). That's not a bad thing. Fletch was probably the last great Chevy Chase movie ever made. I also think linguists would like this book. The most enjoyable part of this book for me was having to watch carefully everything I read. The author constantly tricks you into misreading everything. One example is when the character says he comes in "guns a-blazing." You have to be suspicious enough at this point so that you're not caught off guard a paragraph later when he's trying to put out the fire that has started because of his guns. In short if you like word play, random references, random everything, silliness, and Fletch one-liners, this book will probably be for you.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sheer Bloody Poetry,
By Fogbert Tamyet (Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Death by Zamboni (Paperback)
Death By Zamboni is weird and extremely funny. Don't read it if you want it to be like other books, because it is not! The protagonist, Satan Donut, is obviously a genius and his sister Etta is hot. As a matter of fact, I am currently going out with her. The character's email transcripts alone are worth twice the price of the book.
Buy it! It makes a great gift too.
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