Review: Ugly Orchids and Petulant Poets
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2011
A hysterical send up of Academia by one of its own. Doc Smith careens from peer review to poetry to swinging to a green house full of home grown cannabis to murder with an infectious gusto that leaves the reader breathless, dazed and confused in the best sense of those words. Octavia VanderPlats is a force of nature and, frankly, will scare the pants off you. Her supporting cast are walking, talking masterpieces of irony that Francisco Goya or Ralph Steadman would beg to paint. The price is right. The time is now. Buy this book. You'll thank me later.