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Review title: Funny....for a few pages
Product review: Chris Elliott writes very much in the style of Dave Barry, which is a good or bad thing depending on your opinion of Dave Barry.Since both authors are basically making jokes and puns for the sake of making jokes and puns, the humor comes over as being very forced after more than a few pages where the aim is to get as many jokes into as many sentences as possible.The plot, such as it is, was an interesting framework to base the buffoonery on, and there were some definite funny ideas, such as the NCNYPD - Nineteenth Century NY Police Department - and the wooden oil-fired mobile phones.A certain, decent percentage of the time, Elliott can make you laugh. Not every joke is telegraphed, and he can be genuinely amusing. But this is a 350 page novel, and the relentless barrage means there will inevitably be misses, and the whole enterprise becomes tiresome way before the end.Recommended only for Elliott fans or those who love zany, virtually non-stop humor.
