Review: Craig Stone weaves words like the Navajo weave blankets
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 8, 2012
I stumbled upon this book from a Twitter post, read the sample on Amazon and bought it on the spot.  Craig Stone weaves words like the Navajo weave blankets.  As I paged through the book and I attempted to make mental notes about how the author would turn a phrase I couldn't keep up. The entire book is spent playing with words but it never gets pretentious or hollow.  It's simply a fun read.  Just to quote a short sample of Stone's lexicon mischievousness I'll quote the first night our main character, Colossus Sosloss, spends in the park as a tramp - he says "I wait for sleep to run me over and put me in the boot of its black car and drive me into tomorrow."The mind numbing cast of characters that are introduced only make us wish that we could spend an hour or two rambling around the authors mind to see what sort of pharmaceuticals his brain is producing.  There is an angry midget, a fat guy who won't come down from his tree least the ground bite him, a parrot whom everyone seems to be pursuing, PC Whirled an oddly named cop and so many others that this review would be as long as the Kindle Book if I listed them.I would not be surprised to see Ben & Jerry turn this book into an ice cream flavor.  So many of the other reviewers have drawn a parallel between this work of Craig Stone and many of the offbeat comedic geniuses of our time.  Every one of them is correct AND more.  I've read through the day and my only disappointment in the book is that there is not more of it to read tomorrow.  Come on, Craig, get busy.