Waiting for Godalming
Registered by nice-cup-of-tea of Zürich, Zürich Switzerland on 4/26/2006
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
3 journalers for this copy...
Bought @ "Kunst & Krempel", Caritas Zürich, Birmensdorferstr. 53, 8004 Zürich (opp. Bahnhof Wiedikon)
This is a great source, and there seems to be quite a quick turnover!
All books are CHF 3 - in German, English & some French & Italian.
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This is a great source, and there seems to be quite a quick turnover!
All books are CHF 3 - in German, English & some French & Italian.
Click here for map
I really wanted to like this, but it was just trying too hard to be clever and funny,,,
Amazon review
Waiting for Godalming reports the greatest case of private eye Lazlo Woodbine, hired to investigate God's murder and the suspicious fact that Earth was inherited not by the meek but by God's other son Colin--edited out of the Bible when Jesus got full artistic control. Woodbine is strong on gunplay, dark alleys, rooftop confrontations and talking bizarre drivel in bars, but one worries about the Holy Guardian Sprout called Barry living inside his head.
Meanwhile, light-fingered Icarus Smith discovers the "Red Head" reality pills that reveal the disguised demons among us for the awful, scaly, insect-mouthed horrors that they are. Meanwhile, Prof. Bruce Partington's "spectremeter" device raises ghosts but can't make them go away again. Meanwhile, conspiracy theorists will shiver to the dread Ministry of Serendipity hidden under Mornington Crescent station, and its awful uses for barbers' chairs.
As Rankin's anarchic storylines go, this is unusually sober and logical. There's a flood of running gags, self-referential japes, author interjections, allusions to a million Sherlock Holmes titles, and deranged one-liners like this architectural description of Wisteria Lodge:
To the original Georgian pile had been added a Victorian bubo, an Edwardian boil and a nineteen-thirties cyst
Amazon review
Waiting for Godalming reports the greatest case of private eye Lazlo Woodbine, hired to investigate God's murder and the suspicious fact that Earth was inherited not by the meek but by God's other son Colin--edited out of the Bible when Jesus got full artistic control. Woodbine is strong on gunplay, dark alleys, rooftop confrontations and talking bizarre drivel in bars, but one worries about the Holy Guardian Sprout called Barry living inside his head.
Meanwhile, light-fingered Icarus Smith discovers the "Red Head" reality pills that reveal the disguised demons among us for the awful, scaly, insect-mouthed horrors that they are. Meanwhile, Prof. Bruce Partington's "spectremeter" device raises ghosts but can't make them go away again. Meanwhile, conspiracy theorists will shiver to the dread Ministry of Serendipity hidden under Mornington Crescent station, and its awful uses for barbers' chairs.
As Rankin's anarchic storylines go, this is unusually sober and logical. There's a flood of running gags, self-referential japes, author interjections, allusions to a million Sherlock Holmes titles, and deranged one-liners like this architectural description of Wisteria Lodge:
To the original Georgian pile had been added a Victorian bubo, an Edwardian boil and a nineteen-thirties cyst
Book will be left at the Dresden MegaMeetup
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Well, I took it because the booklet sounded very interesting and funny, but after the first few pages, I had to admit that I don`t like it absolutely not. Maybe another Bookcrosser will like it more.
Journal Entry 5 by hon-no-tomo at Le Petit Châtelet [ex. OBCZ, FERMÉ] in -Paris 1er, Ile-de-France France on Saturday, June 17, 2006
Released 17 yrs ago (6/17/2006 UTC) at Le Petit Châtelet [ex. OBCZ, FERMÉ] in -Paris 1er, Ile-de-France France
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In the official, but nevertheless well hidden OBCZ coin in Paris.
In the official, but nevertheless well hidden OBCZ coin in Paris.
Caught in the OBCZ 22.7.06
I was on holiday in Paris and visited the OBCZ-Cafe.
I was on holiday in Paris and visited the OBCZ-Cafe.
not my kind of humor
Journal Entry 8 by eligi at Zug Stuttgart - Dresden in -- Bahn/Bus/Schiff --, Bayern Germany on Monday, August 28, 2006
Released 17 yrs ago (8/28/2006 UTC) at Zug Stuttgart - Dresden in -- Bahn/Bus/Schiff --, Bayern Germany
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25.8 ca 9h: habs kurz vor Erreichen des Bahnhofs Nürnberg im Wagon liegengelassen
25.8 ca 9h: habs kurz vor Erreichen des Bahnhofs Nürnberg im Wagon liegengelassen
