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I, Smith
The characters and story of I, Smith were originally created by Harry and a certain well-known TV comedian. Smith is a wealthy and charitable businessman, and hence an obvious target for an assassination attempt by an international criminal organization. Action and devilment chase each other across the globe – to Rome, London, Paris, Tokyo, Miami and The Mumbles – as a motley assortment of characters try to kill and/or protect Smith and/or the Captain, his mortally idiotic sidekick. This multi-national crime caper also has some obligatory romantic interest for Smith, and a not obligatory but convenient Eight-Foot Chicken. Defying the conventions of convention-defiance and consistently very, very silly, ‘I, Smith’ is a novel that not so much breaks all the rules, but completely ignores them and writes its own. Then ignores those too.
310 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 7, 2017
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March 9, 2019
leotard
that's all I have to say about this book and the shenanigans and chicanery that take place therein. ok maybe not, the authors (and seems like there are quite a few) routinely break the 4th wall with you the reader (me also) the characters in the book, themselves, and I'm almost positive anyone who happens by during the course of their days. this book is almost too silly but it barely (not at all) avoids that Mark. In fact it falls so far outside the realm of silly as to be ludicrous and absurd. Somehow the authors have taken the obvious madness in their brains and transposed it into a book. Well done.
that's all I have to say about this book and the shenanigans and chicanery that take place therein. ok maybe not, the authors (and seems like there are quite a few) routinely break the 4th wall with you the reader (me also) the characters in the book, themselves, and I'm almost positive anyone who happens by during the course of their days. this book is almost too silly but it barely (not at all) avoids that Mark. In fact it falls so far outside the realm of silly as to be ludicrous and absurd. Somehow the authors have taken the obvious madness in their brains and transposed it into a book. Well done.
April 17, 2017
Another mad story from Ray Fripp.
This took a while to get into as the storytelling language is non-stop with the asides. Once I got the hang of reading it, I appreciated the madness more.
Smith is not really the main character as such. I often forgot about him as the story is more about the characters on his trail.
I loved the name of the evil lair - the Chateau Noir de Noirdenoir.
This took a while to get into as the storytelling language is non-stop with the asides. Once I got the hang of reading it, I appreciated the madness more.
Smith is not really the main character as such. I often forgot about him as the story is more about the characters on his trail.
I loved the name of the evil lair - the Chateau Noir de Noirdenoir.
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