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Get ready to laugh!, May 29, 2007
TAILED continues the adventures of taxidermist Garth Carson, only this time he has a briefcase and a "real" job. He's putting his experience to good use, he's appraising taxidermy collections for an insurance company. But before you know it, bodies start piling up and Garth becomes a person of interest - never a good thing. Another terrific, fast paced & funny caper from Wiprud.
Just a comment about the "review" by John Sederquist - I find it very odd that the only "reviews" Mr. Sederquist has left on Amazon.com are on three of Wiprud's books, and they are not reviews by any stretch of the imagination. He obviously doesn't read the books, but he does leave a nasty one liner. Obviously there is some sort of personal vendetta going on here and I'm not sure why Amazon allows this sort of thing to continue book after book.
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Fun from Start to Finish, May 29, 2007
Brian Wiprud's new novel is number 3 in the Garth Carson trilogy. This installment finds Garth trying to go straight ... sort of. He's delegated the running of his taxidermy rental business to his Russian sidekick Otto and taken a well paid job for an insurance company as an appraiser of high end taxidermy.
Trouble has a way of finding Garth and time around is no exception - bad things start happening to his customers and before you know it Garth is caught up in a three way intrigue between the FBI, the U.S. Air Force, and a bizarre group of cultists who have a made the white gecko an object of almost religious devotion.
Weird enough for you? Just wait until the masked Mexican wrestlers make their entrance. This is fun stuff, a perfect mixture of crime and comedy expertly blended with memorable characters.
This is great summer reading. Put a copy of "Tailed" in your suitcase when you leave for vacation. Better yet, take along the earlier books in the series, "Pipsqueak" and "Stuffed," as well. You'll be travelling in good company.
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Wiprud Does It Again!!!, May 29, 2007
Garth Carson has done something totally unexpected, but extremely sensible. He's taken a job working as a taxidermy appraiser. He has his helper, Otto, run the taxidermy business in New York City. Garth travels the country, doing appraisals and learning a lot about the collector mentality. His love, Angie is working to make her jewelry business take off in a big way, so things are really looking up.
And just when life is looking like a bed of roses, an aphid shows up. Garth is in Chicago for an appraisal of a collection belonging to a Bear, of the gridiron variety. When Garth gets to the estate, he finds the body of Sprunty G. Fulmore, who appears to have been clawed to death by his own stuffed bear. To make matters worse, that death makes the authorities take a look at another collector's death that was taken to be an accident. In Texas, another collector was killed by a falling stuffed critter. Since both victims had a white Gecko on their bodies, it seems there is a serial killer at large.
Garth is asked to go to Seattle to meet with the FBI, and while there another collector bites the dust. Now Garth is thinking he's being set up, and is not happy about this. He enlists the aid of his brother, Nicholas and takes it on the lam, right after a visit to his mom, Gabby at the nudist colony where she has lived for many years. He meets up with assorted groups of people who may or may not be what they seem.
The action culminates in a scene in New Mexico, which has a Roswellian theme, and as much action as you could wish for. Garth and company make sense of a world that seems to have imbibed way to much wacky baccy. Garth keeps his cool, even learning on the spot to drive an assault vehicle. Garth has been through a lot over the past few years, and while I don't wish bad things to happen to anyone, Garth breezes through one catastrophe after another with such ease that I am always anxious to see what is in store for him in the future.
Though I do agree with him that seeing his aging mother au natural may be asking too much of this most coolest of dudes. Highly recommended series.
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