Review: Amusing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 21, 2011
First this is an excellent kindle edition as it is true to the original and contains no scanning errors also it contains copies of the original artwork which can be zoomed to view in addition there is a glossary which contains words or phrases not in common use now but were widely used America in the 1930/40s linked to the text and underlined. Also included in the book complete with photographs is a comprehensive biography of L Ron Hubbard.The actual story is typical of the type written at the time when authors had to bash out stories in minimal time to meet editor's time scales and often paid by the word.  I have now read 4 of these books, this one being from the "Fantasy Collection" it is a fairly short story with a straightforward plot based on drinking  from a bottle of something from Borneo which causes someone to grow enormous and a  "magic cocktail" which is the Borneo potion plus other ingredients which makes anyone who drinks it shrink. This is set against a background of gangsters .Worth reading to get a flavour of this type of book, which is an amusing read.