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Title: My Fake War
Author: Andersen Prunty
Narrator: Andersen Prunty
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-21-14
Publisher: Atlatl Press
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
The absurd tale of an unlikely soldier forced to fight a war that, quite possibly, does not exist.
Saul Dressing is a flabby middle-aged librarian who just wants to be left alone to listen to jazz, watch porn, and cultivate his toenails. All of this changes when a soldier in a camouflage sweat suit shows up to draft him into the army of the United States of Everything. His mission is simple: Go to a foreign country no one has ever heard of and incite the opposition to strike first. All alone in the middle of a desert with no enemy in sight, Saul must come to terms with the absurdity of his situation. Thus begins a surreal journey into the politics of war, consumerism, and giant robots.
It's Rambo meets Waiting for Godot in this subversive satire of American values and the scope of the human imagination.
Members Reviews:
Smart and sadly accurate
What does a government do when it doesn't understand something or own? It declares war.
This book was intelligent and thoughtful also funny and hilarious.
Prunty at his best!
Welcome to the United States of Everything. The military is the dominant force and war is the new national pastime. Books are irrelevant and libraries are all but forgotten while the majority of the population is on a state sponsored welfare system. This is the world where Saul Dressing finds himself in Andersen Prunty's smart bizarro novel, My Fake War.
My Fake War is a bizzaro novel with a message. It is cautionary tale to a generation that has known almost nothing but war. Prunty chooses to tell a very straight-forward tale while still reveling in some truly bizarre occurrences. The protagonist, Saul Dressing, is an overweight librarian whose favorite activities include slowly masturbating himself to sleep and growing his toenails so long that they are now referred to as talons. He is actually the most down-to-earth character in the story and is also the vehicle for most of the novel's message. Dressing encounters the absurd as he is drafted into the military by a slop of a man known as Baxter Baxter. Baxter shows up to Saul's house wearing a less than official looking sweat suit and tells Saul that he has been drafted and will be sent to a foreign land to wage a one man war. Saul is witness to some extreme weirdness as he comes to the ultimate realization that war may not be the answer and the enemy may be those who sent him to fight.
My Fake War really establishes Andersen Prunty as one of the elite names in the bizarro genre. He keeps the readers on their toes with enough sci-fi absurdity in the peripheral, all while Prunty drives his message home. The author never comes across as preachy or overbearing- he simply lets the story take center stage.
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Title: My Fake War
Author: Andersen Prunty
Narrator: Andersen Prunty
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-21-14
Publisher: Atlatl Press
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
The absurd tale of an unlikely soldier forced to fight a war that, quite possibly, does not exist.
Saul Dressing is a flabby middle-aged librarian who just wants to be left alone to listen to jazz, watch porn, and cultivate his toenails. All of this changes when a soldier in a camouflage sweat suit shows up to draft him into the army of the United States of Everything. His mission is simple: Go to a foreign country no one has ever heard of and incite the opposition to strike first. All alone in the middle of a desert with no enemy in sight, Saul must come to terms with the absurdity of his situation. Thus begins a surreal journey into the politics of war, consumerism, and giant robots.
It's Rambo meets Waiting for Godot in this subversive satire of American values and the scope of the human imagination.
Members Reviews:
Smart and sadly accurate
What does a government do when it doesn't understand something or own? It declares war.
This book was intelligent and thoughtful also funny and hilarious.
Prunty at his best!
Welcome to the United States of Everything. The military is the dominant force and war is the new national pastime. Books are irrelevant and libraries are all but forgotten while the majority of the population is on a state sponsored welfare system. This is the world where Saul Dressing finds himself in Andersen Prunty's smart bizarro novel, My Fake War.
My Fake War is a bizzaro novel with a message. It is cautionary tale to a generation that has known almost nothing but war. Prunty chooses to tell a very straight-forward tale while still reveling in some truly bizarre occurrences. The protagonist, Saul Dressing, is an overweight librarian whose favorite activities include slowly masturbating himself to sleep and growing his toenails so long that they are now referred to as talons. He is actually the most down-to-earth character in the story and is also the vehicle for most of the novel's message. Dressing encounters the absurd as he is drafted into the military by a slop of a man known as Baxter Baxter. Baxter shows up to Saul's house wearing a less than official looking sweat suit and tells Saul that he has been drafted and will be sent to a foreign land to wage a one man war. Saul is witness to some extreme weirdness as he comes to the ultimate realization that war may not be the answer and the enemy may be those who sent him to fight.
My Fake War really establishes Andersen Prunty as one of the elite names in the bizarro genre. He keeps the readers on their toes with enough sci-fi absurdity in the peripheral, all while Prunty drives his message home. The author never comes across as preachy or overbearing- he simply lets the story take center stage.