End Time Gentlemen

Deliciously cynical and carved with a razor sharp wit.
Love it.

I absolutely love this book! The opening chapter is brilliant and sets the scene perfectly. The dialogue is cracking and I think you have the rare skill of creating the kind of dry, awkward humour I always love in books by Adams and Pratchett.

Definitely backing this!

Phil

This is the most unique and invigorating pieces of work I’ve come across in a long time, not just here on Authonomy, but anywhere. It has a subtle literary feel that’s disguised beneath a captivating premise and a sometimes tongue-in-cheek delivery. This is true talent revealed. I’m proud to back it.

Richard Bard
BRAINRUSH

Book Cover Critique

To begin, I honestly love the cover. The amusing mushroom cloud for a head and the posture of what looks like a Charlie Chaplin body is incredibly creative. I could not come up with anything better to relate your book to your cover. The design is eye catching; red being one of the best colors to capture the eyes' attention. Very well done!

Now for a few nit-picky things I see that could make or break your cover. As the image is small please bear with me as I may point out things that may not be there. I see what looks like a faint white outline around your figure. This looks like a bad photoshop if I am seeing it correctly. Defining those lines and getting rid of that white outline should make the cover look more appealing.

I like the style of the title but I find that the colors and the font could be played around more. I enjoy how it resembles a college of letters cut from a magazine (kinda gives me that end of the world feel). Keep it simple like you have it. I just suggest you turn the white letters into more of a yellow like your mushroom cloud head. Color, color, color...it may sound stupid but to keep the same palette of colors consistent throughout is something a professional will ensure he or she does when designing. The author name is good, keep it small and discreet for now.

All in all, great cover, very funny, gives me that underlying feeling of doom and well done. Hope this critique helps.

Brilliant, Love it.

Deliciously cynical and carved with a razor sharp wit.
Love it.

LMAO. This is awesome. I have nothing more constructive to say.

This is great. Backed it.

like it much, star it well, nothing funnier than the end of the world, nothing funnier than people whose ego needs would lead to mankind's ruin being helped by the nitwits who are most the population, nothing funnier than realizing it might be pretty close to the truth and you are a member of team idiot, in the tradition of black humor i think, i read about six chapters, wanted a little more of a straight story line and less biography, but the sketches were always interesting, and will add up to something crazy wonderful i am sure, best wishes

Remarkable prose. Five stars. I can see it in hardcover...back jacket covered in praise.

I absolutely love this book! The opening chapter is brilliant and sets the scene perfectly. The dialogue is cracking and I think you have the rare skill of creating the kind of dry, awkward humour I always love in books by Adams and Pratchett.

Definitely backing this!

Phil

Hi Dave

Will definitively have a nose through this as I have a few spaces on my book shelf and WL. Would you be so kind as to have a quick look at my book - The List. Feel free to leave a comment.
ta very much.

David J Baron

I have read a couple of chapters of this, and perhaps the easiest thing would be to tell you what I like about it.

I enjoy your clever, colourful use of language, which slowed me down.
I like the fact that I was rewarded for slowing down, with a wry, clever story littered with humour and beautifully observed.
I love the pacing.
I enjoyed the realisation your writing is intelligent. You do not patronise your readers by using only words of one or two syllables.

I enjoy this book, so what is happening with it? A sixer from me.

All the best

Fran Macilvey, "Trapped"

Some truly amazing writing, my only slight niggle being there might be too much of it. Maybe a drastic prune would make it more marketable - which is, after all, the goal. I'd love to see it in print, though. On my watchlist, as I don't back unless I have seen the end. I've been disappointed by limp endings before

I'm not even going to mention that comic, literarily valid prose is overwhelmingly overrepresented by UK dudes on this site--since I mention it every single time I start looking through these books, looking for something readable.

It's weird. Although people sometimes glance at your book if it's on Authonomy--if it's published, it might as well be instantly, utterly dead, for most writers (an Authonomy profile vs. an Amazon profile, with no bookstores anymore--at least Authonomy has social networking fueled by a patina of self-interest--you have more hope here than in a bookstore, and I'm still pretty sure no living human has fully read the 15,000 words I uploaded--forget "professionals.)

Most UK agents probably stop reading at "bladder the size of the Hindenburg"--I expect. There's not many "ehh" lines but that's one of them--you might be in love with sentences you've excessively re-read. But I think UK agents just avoid comically-talented males--judging by the evidence of unpublished novels on this site, because they're wildly overrepresented, in the "publishable" unpublished category.

Verveful and reminiscent of great comic writers, though. I know very vaguely of that Turkmenistan character, and he was hilariously Stalinist. Didn't he re-name the days of the week after himself? I like this, anyway, I read like 6 chapters, definitely goes into the "for all I know it's a goddamn masterpiece" file.

So my first reaction was to your Short Pitch. “Every mushroom cloud has a silver lining.” I was laughing out loud on that one. I quickly scanned over and saw that you have this marked as Comedy. Good. I’m excited to start reading!

BUT, before I begin...take any grammar comments(if any) with a grain of salt. I’m new to novel writing, so take what you will from the following.

Chapter 1-

I always scan the first chapter before diving in. It’s not too long. Good. I’m going to be reading two chapters then. Love that first line. Life is kinda selfish, huh? I’m thinking...oh no there are 53 chapters posted...I’m going to be hooked into reading them all! Nothing major to say here. Nice hook at the end. You are giving us some great characterization when you go into his thought process, etc. Usually I’m not a fan of no dialogue, but you make this work. On to Chapter 2.


Chapter 2-

Favorite line: “Just name the asteroid after my fucking kid,” I can just see this woman red in the face yelling at the doctor. I would have liked to read the kid’s reaction to this. So I wouldn’t say this is my usual read. I write for children and I enjoy Fantasy and Historical Fiction. But, I found this fast paced and that it had superb characterizations. Plus, you didn’t overuse exclamation marks. 6 stars from me and I’m making room on my WL for this.

Best,

Ashley

So cool, so hilarious - had to stay up past midnight to find out how the world went down, and the fall was EPIC.

This should be on bookshelves and in bomb shelters everywhere . . . somebody print it, quick!

Just read the first two chapters, and when I have time I'll read a few more.

Initial impressions - I love the opening, fantastic. The dialogue between the mother, son and Olburn in Ch2 seemed a little forced to me. I think this could be cut down a bit.

I'm not sure if this is what you were going for, but I love the whole silliness of academia thing - the fact that he was reinstated after the hoax, etc. Very funny!

Can't fault this ... ingenious and very readable ...

Starred and on my shelf in the next round.

Hey Dave,
I took a look at End Time Gentlemen and I have to say that you are one funny guy/scary statue thingy.
In places you reminded me of me! You had a few one liners there that made me laugh out loud and that doesn't happen very often unless I'm reading something I wrote :p
Obviously I didn't read all 53 chapters (53?!!) I'll leave that to the HC reviewer, but I'm sure that once he/she does he/she will see that this is a great story. :)
Good luck and I hope it makes the ED soon.
Rated with 6 stars.

Christina
Take a Sick Break

Got to hand it to you, Dave, this is extremely well done. I've read up to C4 - tired eyes (yours was the fourth book tonight) I will be back though. I'm enjoying this.

Mick

I just read the first two chapters. It is absolutely brilliant. I am a fan. I like your style of writing and I hate reading from the computer screen but I think I'll have to make an exception in this case. It would be a crime if you're not published. Sadly I have very little constructive to say yet, but I'll read on, you're bound to have at least one typo somewhere....

Best wishes
Mel B

I am thinking of the boy who cried wolf as I finish Ch2. Olborn the alien faker is about to discover this Asteroid thingy? There seems to be a couple of styles here. Straight out comedy mixed with some wordy science. Aurulent is not even in my dictionary. I have not read Hitchhikers but I have seen the series and the film and there are shades here. The Pratt character could be a Dent, (personally I think the name Pratt is now a cliche and I winced when I saw it but it does save on wordy description I suppose.) I am interested where you are going to take Olborn, because he could be end up completely comic, possibly more bumbling than bad, perhaps just opportunist, or even an evil schemer. I have not quite settled on who he is.
It was a smooth read, didn't pick any typos or jarring stuff. For me, (as a single unpublished voice so disregard or regard as you see fi)t, the mother/son telescope scene could trimmed or alternatively the mother and son be given a couple more layers of characterisation. I may well be the moron you need to ignore.
Great start and I'll be continuing onto chapter 3.
Norton

Hi Dave,

Just read the opening 2 chapters (yes, I'm a habitual dipper). I thought it was a bright start with Dr Olburn being the stand out.

I've always argued that if armageddon comes we won't panic, we won't even try and waste our energy escaping our fate, we'll just throw our hands in the air and say, 'Oh, sod it. We had a good run while it lasted. Now who's up for a barbeque!'

But back on topic . . .

I would add an extra paragraph during your opening. We go straight from creatures crawling out of the sea to moronic man. I think there's a few stupid animals you've missed out along the way that you might have some fun with.

Naturally there's a few things to tidy/tighten up (oh, listen to me!):

'And so in conclusion,' Dr Ethan Olburn concluded.

Just put 'said Dr Ethan Olburn.' Even if you put this in for comedic effort it still sounds awkward.

And:

'Leaping to the conclusion that the aliens could avoid detection to a horrifying degree,'

Drop 'to a horrifying degree' - you don't need it.

I think we all have a habit of over emphasising our sentences, trying to 'convince' the reader of this or that, but the writing tends to be stronger if we resist over elaborating. Just be sure that you're not repeating or trying to reinforce any sentiments that you've already quoted.

Really enjoyed the argument about the naming of the asteroid.

One final question though, I noticed that the word count presently exceeds 112k. Is the manuscript complete in that you've reached the end but just need to polish it? I'd just be a bit weary about 'overstayng your welcome', if you know what I mean. I'm really looking forward to reading more.

Kind Regards

Iso Nuys

(Stand out cover by the way)

Make sure you get a good deal on the film rights! Seriously, this is sharp, witty and rollicking good time of a book. Love the premise, and the writing is outstanding. My only quibble - why would Olburn get reinstated? I think you'd better off having him slink off to Chile with his tail between his legs, and then go on to make his discovery. I know institutions do foolish things, but reinstating a huckster like him didn't ring true.

You've got something really special here, and I look forward to seeing you rise in the rankings. Six stars and watch listed for now.

Best,
Andi Brown
ANIMAL CRACKER

Dave/Kolro - I've had some special people recommending your read so here it is with comments. I've no literary training nor ever published so feel free to deal with these as you wish. I do love good humour but would suggest it's the toughest genre to write.

Chapter 1 as an intro is short and sharp. Well written, it reads smoothly enough with some nice images for the reader. Humour is a tough one not just varying between people but also on moods - I'd maybe like to see a little more here but the read has set a powerful opening scene.

Chapter 2 - Superb start and I burst out laughing. The spin on Olburn's discovery of the Universe and the innocence of the young boy really worked. Strong dialogue supports the background to this observatory scene and as a read it flowed as quick as any I've read here. Typos and grammar - nothing to comment - except the bleak arm of dusty mountain - should that be in Caps or 'the' inserted?

The background to Olburn I enjoyed but perhaps because of it's length felt took me away from the read. The whole discovery of 'Timmy's Asteroid' was excellent and his mothers umbrage. The depiction of the cynical scientist was spot on - I had Bill Murray here.

Chapter 3 - again great opening. Genuis to yottabytes in a few words. I do feel the background to MAB was too long and I was looking forward to the pace speeding up with the return of Olburn. And then we move up two gears with some great one liners. And a sarcatsic computer? - excellent. This should be in film now.

Chapter 4 - a slower start but one that works for me. The Hiddenburg bladder brought a laugh but the simplicity of the short one liners ruled here. Each is bland the but the scene they portray together really works as the lead into the next stage.

The story itself is clear enough,works and I'm enjoying the humour - am trying to think how HC may view this. I can only suggest the characters are not as strong as they could be at this stage. Holburn is there, but Phil has not been developed at all.

And 0 % chance with 0% margin or error - that's newsworthy. Some lighter moments here and loved the tongure in-cheek news reports.

Chapter 5 and the leap to Turkmenistan - the background to this opening made me smile, but it's your narrative that really sets me laughing. Wonderful writing going back to Timmy, and then patronising Grunchev. You've woven the story well with Grunchev even preparing for interplanetary war. It is very much fate bringing this asteroid against this desert space.

Chapter 6 - new characters again and different pace but love it. For a brief moment with the caterpillar I thought I had misplaced Stumpo! And the best one liner of them all so far - people cannot survive without cobalt!

Chapter 7 - The seriousnes of this opening almost faltered until there introduction to MAB. Timing they say in humour is everything and this was exact. The additional mention of the coffee maker a plus point. And then the build of MAB as a character is quite unique. His cynical portrayal of the human race, and the internet, worked and his look-down approach to humanity is almost believable; but what i am enjoying is that there is a real story here. We're heading towards this intergalactic crash knowing it's a clear certainty with sme intriguing characters playing lead.

This Chapter is probably key to the story with the bringing together of the UN, and the build for MAB sets the stage. The insignifance and waffle of the speeches matches reality, perhaps too closely for some. Your 'selling'of this story is so good, I gave up trying to analyse the physics of the rubber band theory and kept reading. I've been missing your one liners but the summary 'basically things dont look so good' again hits the spot. You've also used the translation possibilities to good effect.

Overall a great read after a long day at work. The story is simple but easy to follow and allows you tremndous opportunity to suck the reader in. On balance I prefer the dialogue to the descriptive secenes, but nothing serious there and perhaps just my personal preference. I felt the characters worked better, but overall it is a wonderful read. Humour is tough; I laughed and often. Best. Steve.

Well, well! Very entertaining, what a wonderful first read! :D

Never has the apocalypse been funnier! You have a superbly wry writing style. Entertaining and, in places, just laugh-out-loud.
Terrific stuff, no problem backing it.
Good luck, Si.
PS - if you fancy reading my own less apocalyptic efforts, they are at:
http://www.authonomy.com/books/33422/that-english-weirdo/
All comments gratefully received.

"A thumbprint of moon was pressed onto the morning sky" - i like those kind of descriptions, much better than a long descriptive paragraph wrought with phrases celebrating dawn, you move this fun story along adding little gems along the way, i read the first four sections of you piece, like vonnegut you remind that the most important decisions often are the province of crazy human beings, not that most human beings aren't crazy, something else i think your piece explores, i put it on my watch list and gave it a good rating, i might get back to it, i am sure there is fun ahead here, if you get a chance look at one of my pieces, "ghost dance" or "crow diary"

Chapter 4 typo - 'Earnest sounding yet but'. :)

This is AMAZING! :D A rare find indeed. Shelved as soon as I have space, and a high rating! I love the humour, the pitch was great, and throughout the first chapters it just got better and better. What a book!

I read your first three chapters.

General comments: An imaginative start. Quirky characters. Hilarious wit. Good descriptions. Good tension. Good pacing.

Specific comments on the first chapter:
1) 'Deep in the recesses of its primeval brain a thought squirmed ... ' Technically, its refers to the forest.
2) 'Oblivious to the impending catastrophe' is foretelling. Foretelling takes some of the energy out of your story. Readers like twists and surprises. Consider not foretelling.

Specific comments on the second chapter:
1) I had to look up 'aurulent' and 'asseveration.' Each time doing the lookup took me out of the flow of your story.
2) Olburn chuckled, "Yes, but I didn't mean you could use my telescope." Period after 'chuckled.' The only time a sentence that precedes dialogue is punctuated with a comma is when that sentence is a dialogue tag (tells who said something). Since you can't chuckle dialogue, 'Olburn chuckled' should be punctuated with a period.

Specific comments on the third chapter:
1) 'About 3pm Greenwich Meantime," said MAB. '3pm' should be '3 p.m.' or, better yet, 'three p.m.' Also, 'Meantime' should be 'Mean Time.'
2) " ... you could call it a fasteroid," he then played ... Period after 'fasteroid' and 'he' should be capitalized.
3) 'This would be the perfect opportunity to rub his magnificense in the faces of those that had shipped him off to Chile.' 'That' should be 'who.' Use 'that' for objects. 'Use 'who' for people.

I hope this critique will help you further polish your all important first chapters. These are just my opinions. Use what works for you and discard the rest.

Would you please take a look at "Savannah Fire?"

Have a sensational day.

Al

Hi Dave - I like the premise and love the opening sentence. The various characters are lively and varied, and I will happily read on to see how things develop. There is clearly a further round of polishing needed - it feels as if you looked in more detail at the opening chapters, or perhaps had more feedback on those, since the writing becomes a little looser in chapters 5 and 6.

So a few minor points. I offer these in a positive spirit, so hope you find my comments helpful rather than critical: In chapter 5, the phrase 'flavour of the month' feels a little cliched. Then there's an issue of singular mixed with plural which crops up from time to time: “When one has experienced the lowest point of their lives, anything else is simply an improvement”. 'One' is singular - 'their' is plural - a choice needs to be made which you're going for.

Chapter 6: Ignoring the gratuitous cruelty to caterpillars (!) which I actually found quite funny, it did make me wonder can caterpillars hear? They might feel vibrations, but don't have ears.
Then back to singular/plural - Mankind/they Mankind is singular, they plural.

…poked the skull of one body, it grinned back at him... Should be two sentences.

'would have probably identified this' Might be a little more elegant to say 'would probably have identified this'.

'make him submit into carrying' To submit is to give in - you don't give in into doing something.

'This is the kind of problems' Singular/plural

Then (forgive me for sounding cheeky) you manage to combine all of these into one sentence!

'You must be the group who was sent to Kolro, well looks like our workload has just been shortened.'

group who was (singular/plural mismatch. Group can be either, then 'who were' or 'which was' required). Should be a new sentence after Kolro, then finally you lighten a load, not shorten it.

Hope this helps. I'm sure you would pick up all these points yourself on further revision. I'll try to take a further look in a while, but I must admit these little details were slowing me down. Given your ranking is rising it's probably important to revise further before the book comes under more scrutiny. Why not drop me a message once you've done your next round of polishing? Good luck - Zane

Greetings Dave. Twenty chapters into "End Time Gentlemen," I'm still eager to pursue your masterpiece of satirical, supercharged, convincing fiction. At this character-driven, tension-packed moment, one thing is clear: the fate of the world hangs on the outcome of Waldron and Quinn's rivalry, and the crisis, both inescapable and intolerable, must be resolved. It's a precipitous place for me to pause and back your book.

While I decide which opus to sweep from my shelf and reluctantly do the deed, will you open "The Doctor of Summitville" and read a few pages? I hope, of course, you'll read on to the point where your support is inevitable. In any case, the best of luck to you, Bill

Read the first 3 chapters. Dare I say it? Your writing reminds me of Doug Adams, which is the highest complement I can give. Clever metaphors are my weakness! My kinda humor!

Paul Cicchini
godsmacked

Sorry, can't get beyond the inaccuracies in chapters 2 and 3. You obviously have a great deal of followers who enjoy the work, so I will bow out here.

Dave

I've read the first four chapters so far. To this point, it's very good and very HHGTTG. I get the feeling more may be coming. There's some lovely writing here, some fantastic wit, and it's just generally very good. I've never said this before but once I've removed one of the books I am currently "helping" to stay in the top five, I will back your book with pleasure.

My only criticisms relate to an occasionally ungainly turn of phrase. I'm sure you'll fix these at some future edit/rewrite anyway, but I made note of a couple of sections that had me, as a reader, struggling to stay with your flow and I may as well share them:

Sentence - "About as progressive ... groin."

Paragraph - "The installation of artificial ..."

All the best

Evie

Hi Dave. I can't argue with the word unique which burgeons in the comments below. The delivery is excellent and the imagery jumps out at you. Particularly the earth being irritated by human activity. Backed and starred. All the best .Sandy.

End Time Gentlemen: Dramatic imagery in the first chapter of earth’s sulking and birth pangs in outer space. Fast-paced-reading and entertaining premise. We briefly meet Phil Pratt who is late for work and Dr. Ethan Olburn of the Olburn Hoax. Aliens are sending messages, or are they? And why couldn’t the observatory take a joke? But Olburn is unfazed and self-centered―he takes the joy out of a young boy’s day. But there is something big on the horizon and according to MAB―its heading for earth. Phil finds out there is only ten months left . . . Highly starred, highly recommended and on my w/l for backing. Claire ~ Chasing Pharaohs.

I've put you on my watchlist on the strength of you pitches, alone. I look forward to reading this as soon as I get the chance.

Hi Dave

This is great. The book moves along at a good pace and the imagery is vivid and very funny. i particularly liked the imagery of the asteroid crashing like a ladybird hitting a juggernaut. Reading on in Chapter 2, we find that Olburn faked the "WOW" statement....brilliant! A joke that captivated the planet and the aftermath when it finds out. This feels like a lost manuscript from Douglas Adams - very much a compliment.

Perhaps you would have a look at Marking Time and let me know what you think?
Good luck
Crispy

This was just a treat to read. Enjoyed it very much. Hope the new president has few cards up his sleeve. Mind you, I suppose we will get what we deserve in the end. This deserves a place on the table.

John

A fine example of its genre. If I were an agent I'd promote it, if I were a publisher I'd print it, or e-book it or whatever it is they do these days, if I owned a bookshop I'd stock it, and as a customer I'd buy it. In short, I like it. It does everything a good sci fi/humour novel should, and does it well.

If you can't get this published then I'm giving up.

Good luck

I read the first eight chapters one after the other and will finish the book at a later date. I found it amusing. I love the aloof computer and the biting satire.

Good God Loftus, had it not been for the site being a jumpy little freak with all the crap they do to improve the ratings you might have had a decent review written here as well, but since the goddamm site likes to erase your best damn thoughts when writing them in this inefficient comment box invented when the internet was Al Gore's progeny I guess you will have to suffice with this post-literate horseshit. Damn fine book, people that don't think so probably need to suck on something. Carry on.

Here I thought it would be like the movie Deep Impact, but I was wrong. It's much better, with so much more flavor. The way the story begins is definitely the author's voice coming through in waves, letting the reader in on the fact this is going to be a great ride. The real story doesn't feel like it begins until Chapter two, although one does have to wonder. Why bring Pratt in at the very ending of the chapter, three paragraphs down when we don't see him for another couple of chapters? On one hand, it builds some readers interest, on the other it may annoy as they don't even see this same character for another couple chapters. It almost feels as if it was a prologue of sorts.

Chapter two, three and four however were good, it's where I got hooked with Olburn. Letting the boy see the asteroid, then whoosh, it's his instead. The reader gets a feeling very fast for what kind of man this was, I daresay I think I liked MAB better. Then the bitterness in him heading to the media instead of going to his boss or the government? People don't even take it serious at first, the newspaper article the 'shape of a beer mat' a great indicator along with the interviews.

Pratt's presence is there more, but yet again, why? Now you've really got me wondering, what does Pratt have to do with this story? Then we go off to Grunchev. Now what does this have to do with the story? The reader is twisting a little now, you'd think he'd be more worried about his actual country especially since it was predicted to hit there, and he's mad about Zayalamak. Are people taking this threat seriously, or is it still something that people can't handle?

Then it's clear where you got your pen name. The village of Kolro. So now we have a virus that makes people laugh themselves to death? Poor Struton, and the way his so-called friends were? Worth a 50 quid shirt, what a jerk. You do the opposite of establishing characters of respect, instead going for characters of a mean nature. Nearly every character in this story has some kind of uncaring or smug attitude, breaking one of those first rules of writing: Making people care about your character. And yet, the reader keeps reading, somehow enjoying themselves anyway. How can we not with people dying with a smile on their face.

Will we get to know what Phil Pratt's seeming role really will be in this? Will we find out why this 'funny' virus is coming at the same time as the asteroid that will hit Earth? Who knows, but I'll be reading more soon.

DG Publishing

Hi again Dave,
Good movement and dialogue in chapter two.
Good use of the impending obvious to build tension leading the reader onward to chapter three.

Hi Dave
(I wanted to call you Douglas after reading the first two phrases.)
I love the first line. Just one thought ... "... and it got everywhere", what got everywhere?
Don't get me wrong, I love the way you think and write.
I love the use of Phil Pratt as a barely evolved primate. A complete failure in the eyes of Darwin.
Good first chapter, so no agents have shown an interest in this?

Re-backed! Pirate laugh!

P

I comment as a reader and comment as I read, I hope that is OK with you because it works for me.

Right from the first para I liked your wit. The flow is good and the writing is tight and proficient.

I think that your characters are extremely well drawn and realistic and I love the way that you treat them with such distain.

I love MAB. He scares me stiff but I love him. What arrogance and superb self knowledge and why the heck not and when he exists it will us who made him and so we will indeed get out commupance.

You see I always said that you couldn’t trust scientists because they are just too human.

I really like this story. I’m afraid I am going to bump someone off my shelf, I won’t tell you why because you might gloat in the forums. However, I insist that you have this published because I want to read it properly not on the screen.

Your style is beautiful and professional. There are also injections of humor. Loved the self-absorbed mother and kid.

Love your book's premise. Backed and ready to read. If a chance, try 33. Same topic but I'm not trying to be funny. Have a feeling I will really enjoy your work.

A very funny and engaging, easy read- a dry, sarcastic irreverence with touches of Douglas Adams and Tom Robbins. Not the most original concept- an obvious homage to the hundreds of disaster flicks with the same premise- but at only three short chapters into, it's where it goes fom here that counts. The end of the world always makes a good stage upon which to lampoon all of mankind's shortcomings.
Doug Thurston
VOODOO INFERNO