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Monday, July 23, 2007

Happy Monkey Monday/Milkman Review





Happy Monkey Monday!

Ian ,over at E Dog's Blog who actually gave me the idea for Monkey Monday, has had a book published recently! See it up there? (not the monkey, the book!). Well....Ian has a fantastic imagination and a wonderful creative sense as evidenced not only by his writings but by his web comic http://ianthealy.comicgenesis.com/ "Adventures of the S Team", consisting of scenes made by Ian out of leggos....It's really rather funny!

I just finished reading his book. Mind you, I'm not the biggest fan of science fiction books. I do like watching sci-fi flicks, and if I had a choice between the two I'd chose the movie.

However, since I've been reading Ian's blog and read one of his other stories he wrote in the Novel Writing Month competition, I was eager to read The Milkman. I mean who else knows a real life published author???

I loved the book...yes, this non sci-fi reader, actually loved it. It had me hooked in the first two pages. The story flowed easily and I couldn't wait to see what happened with the two main charactors along with the rest of the crazy crew. In spite of the fact that it's touted as science fiction, it's the funniest sci-fi i've ever read. His comedy shines through as he writes the story and shows how the aliens intend to take over the earth....and explains how all those nasty rumors about aliens came to be. It was up-beat, funny, romantic (yes), and down right silly that I actually laughed out loud on the train when I was reading it.

Well done Ian!! I highly recommend that you read it....Go visit Ian and get to know him and his blogs and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Peace

14 comments:

Ian said...

Yay! Thanks for the nice review, Odat!

Ian

Anonymous said...

Happy Monkey Monday - I'll go check him out!

BikerbabeNJ said...

I know a published author... of Romance Writers. (shocking, eh?) She moved to FL a few years ago, think I'll give her a call.

congrats Ian!

Empress Bee (of the high sea) said...

that was nice odat. glad to see you liked the book...

smiles, bee

Schmoop said...

Sounds great!! I only wish that I could read.

Odat said...

Ian, you're so very welcome!!!

Pool, thanks for the monkey wishes!!

biker, I figured you would!! ;-)

bee, I had cake for the book review. Did you get some??

Matt-man, you're such the kidder!!

Peace

Constance said...

Happy Monday to you and Ian and his book, Odat !

Michael C said...

The book sounds great! Happy Monday to ya!!

Kelly said...

Awe, doesn't monkey look all pretty this morning!

Sarge Charlie said...

happy monkey day

The CEO said...

Happy Monkey Monday. What a great review. I'll have to go look for myself now. Thanks.

Odat said...

Annie..hiya and thank you!

michael, hope you had a good Monkey Monday!

my, lol doncha love that monkey??
(well i do...)

sarge, thanks!

ceo, thanks for stopping by.

RW said...

sounds good Odat and Happy Monkey Monday to ya!

Odat said...

Hey Roger, Thanks for dropping by, always good to see ya!
Peace