Review: Love, love, love, love this novel and Forkum's wacky sense of humor.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2013
I just love Ford Forkum’s sense of humor. I have previously likened this author to Douglas Adams and Jasper Fforde (read my review of “Alien Invasion in the Zombie Apocalypse” by clicking here). In “Beers in Heaven,” Forkum lands more heavily in the surreal whackadoo land that is the wonderful Fforde.From the moment Zach arrives in Heaven things go off course. He opens his eyes in the processing center and wanders off to the wrong cloud where he meets a talking giraffe who subsequently names himself Woobles. The story-line of a giraffe floating in space pondering his existence and purpose that is so like something Douglas Adams would have written and yet spoken with such a unique voice that I inwardly cheered for the creation of Woobles and his brilliant insertion into this truly fun story line. Zach is eventually found and returned to the Welcome Center where he must learn the ins and outs and being dead and his path to enlightenment. Forkum’s characters are well developed and able to maintain a strong normality in completely insane circumstance.I cannot give this funny and clever novel anything less than five stars and eagerly await the next work by this fabulous author.