Review: Unique is a Word Underrated
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2013
Right from page one, I was thinking, "Damn this is weird."  At the same time, I was thinking, "This is funny as hell."  You're thinking that it's difficult, if not impossible, to imagine two separate and distinct thoughts at the very same instant, right? Indeed.  In fact, it was such an impossibility that my mind shut down; it completely stopped cogitating, and simply enjoyed the ride with a single bump in the road.  At some point, my consciousness returned, shut off the out-loud laughing and a new thought entered my head, "Rocky Horror Picture Show".  This occurred at a point in the story where one of the characters started singing her lines.  There were many more "singing" lines and by the end of the book, I understood the title.  Neat, that.I read the entire book in about forty minutes.  It took so long because I was trying to eat lunch while reading, laughing and trying not to choke myself to death (there was no one around to exercise the Heimlich maneuver, you see?). Strange but lovable - in a way - unique, but somehow familiar in another way, the characters are all as fully developed as they need to be in a sentence or two; and they all - the good and the bad, reach their ends in a brief, but oh-so-powerful act of deus ex machina.  Truly a twist of art.  A short but fantastic little story and well worth the .99 cents of laughter.PS:  Although I rated this with five stars, I swear on my great-grandmothers grave, somewhere in the vast prairie of the great American plains, that I am neither family nor close friend (although I could visualize a friendship of sorts with Mr. Mason... I like how he thinks; not just as demonstrated here but in his sacrilegious ideas in other works, and in general).