The Further Adventures Of Halley's Comet
(John Calvin Batchelor)
'Far out man!' 'The Further Adventures of Halley's Comet'
is a psychadelic literary rollercoaster ride which will
quite literally blow your mind. Forget the fact that you
have to wade through a trifling few pages of dry facts
about the composition of comets, meteors and other
celestial bodies. Instead, revel in the delights of larger
than life (without at all becoming irritating) characters,
comets in human form, love, sex, death, war, drugs and
ghosts. This book is without genre: it is comedy, tragedy,
romance, science fiction and fantasy, all with a little
added dollop of cannabis. Prepare to be amazed as the story
begins with two jewish lawyers who used to be hippies (and
indeed have not been able to drop some of their old hippy
habits), then spirals on to a fantastic party of the Straw
People,
the breathtakingly beautiful aristocracy of this society
who serve to create a contrast and comparison to the likes
of our original characters, the lawyers (of course it is
quite obvious that in no time at all the rich and beautiful
become the villains, whilst the moderate become the heroes
of the hour, on the side of 'good'). Throughout the
book the reader learns of the history of the Straw People
during the time of the Vietnam war, which in this case is
not treated to the heavy-handed brutality of writing that
this topic normally implies. Also included is a love story
between drunk jockey Gracie and our hero Effert Broadsword,
chivalric romantic to the core, which the reader
unashamedly cheers on. The tale culminates, after 400 or so
gripping pages, in a huge almost intergalactic,
otherworldly battle, the finale of which is the shocking
discovery that the real villains of the piece are
Positivism and Capitalism, which amazingly have managed to
kill one of our hero's enemies and seriously disfigure two
to others.
It isn't in any way an easy, but it is without a doubt
worth the effort.
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