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Infinity Plus
has posted another appreciative review of Wholly Smokes,
by
John
Toon: "Comedy as black as a smoker's lungs."
The Alien Online
has posted enthusiastic reviews of Wholly Smokes, by
Adam
Roberts and Andy Sawyer.
Michael Moorcock: John Sladek's last book,
Wholly Smokes, is a heartfelt satire about the tobacco
industry. It combines all his usual virtues -- highly disciplined
prose, sardonic humour, substantial subject -- which make him so
admired by his fans. If one reads it with a touch of sadness,
given John's terrible respiratory illness which led to his death,
this only adds a further profound dimension to the book. As always
with John's work, there's a warning to us all in it as well as a
frequently hilarious view of the world which makes him without
doubt the funniest existentialist of them all.
Matthew Davis: Thanks for all the effort into
making this available. The sort of topic on American opportunistic
industrialism through the ages that I could see Gore Vidal
essaying, but with a looser prose rising to some real moments of
breathtakingly funny and painful godawfulness. In its own way I
suppose this might be Sladek's most American work -- it's
certainly in an almost predominantly American genre: those
Michener type doorstops that cover 200 years of bicycle clips,
successive generations in some hick town, the influence of
flat-earthism in Republican presidencies or whatever. |
