{"id":1714,"date":"2016-07-05T10:05:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T17:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2017-12-18T08:30:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T16:30:59","slug":"review-the-antipope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/05\/review-the-antipope\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Antipope"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>
\n The Antipope<\/a> by Robert Rankin<\/a>
\n My rating: 3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n

I was poking around Goodreads, looking at the books I\u2019ve read. A sidebar told me \u201cPeople who\u2019ve read Douglas Adams have also read Robert Rankin!\u201d Well, gosh. I used to read Douglas Adams all the time. I better check this out. Kindle Unlimited offers a metric butt-ton of Robert Rankin, so I grabbed me a download of The Antipope<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s silly. That\u2019s a short review, and if you know me, praiseworthy. Here\u2019s another glib description: A British version of David Wong\u2019s John Dies at the End<\/em> (in spirit, anyway). One more: Maybe what H.P Lovecraft would have written if, rather than born in Rhode Island and terrified of the female anatomy, he was instead born in a small Middlesex hamlet and terrified of sobriety.<\/p>\n

Rankin’s obviously having fun with this very English novel. I say very English because there\u2019s the pub culture, the shades of xenophobia, the anti-catholicism. There\u2019s trysts and malevolent bicycles and put-upon language, how Shakespeare would have more modern men speak if he was tired of all that damned poetry.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not much of a plot, and several scenes written for the pure absurdity of it. Lots of fun. This is not a book for sitting down and examining. This is a novel for consuming indulgently, like an entire bag of chips or a tub of ice-cream. And, best of all, if you like the read, it\u2019s the first of a nine-novel trilogy. Silly indeed. Just like Douglas Adams.<\/p>\n

View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Antipope by Robert Rankin My rating: 3 of 5 stars I was poking around Goodreads, looking at the books I\u2019ve read. A sidebar told me \u201cPeople who\u2019ve read Douglas Adams have also read Robert Rankin!\u201d Well, gosh. I used to read Douglas Adams all the time. I better check this out. Kindle Unlimited offers … <\/p>\n

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