Title: Boooooo-riiiiiing!
Product review: This book tries too hard to be funny and zany and "wicked." But the humor is lame, and its satirical targets are so old. No, it's not like Monty Python.Story concerns a child antichrist who doesn't want to start Armagedon. Instead, he wants to play with his dog. That's wicked? That's sacreligious? That's nothing!The old theme of a reluctant Christ/antichrist was much better handled in Hal Hartley's indie film, Book Of Life.There's one good line in this book, about Ygor "clocking overtime" because there's no thunderstorm. That's it.As an example of "trying too hard" to be funny, near the end of the book, a character flies through the air on a scooter, wearing a pink helmet. Why pink? I guess because it's zanier that way. An authority figure whose helmet is pink! Ha, ha! How subversive!Zzzzzzz.
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