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Title: A comic book without the pictures
Review: If you bought this book based on the rear cover summary, you're in for a surprise...and not a pleasant one. Instead of the expected semi-serious (or at least moderately dignified) literary excursion, you're treated to a tossed salad of comic-book style action, a jumble of confused and reused mythology, and heaping helpings of lowbrow humor. Toby, our protagonist, is the only character above the level of cardboard, and he simply alternates between a desire to fall in love and a fear of farting in public. I'd excuse it all if the jokes were at least funny, but they mostly set your teeth on edge.If you're the sort of person who finds nothing strained in Norse gods "getting with modern times" by becoming private eyes, and considers the characterization of Satan as a handsome, oily-tongued rogue in a three-piece suit as "new and refreshing", then you'll probably adore this book. If not, you'll have a hard time even finishing it.
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