Review: Sly and Restrained
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 19, 2012
Douglas Adams type stories are hard to write. It's very easy to get too frantic, too zany, too silly, too self indulgent and just too much. You need to know when to put on the brakes, and you need to be able to come up with just the right phrase, tone, and deadpan detachment to keep it all frothing along.Well, this short story does that very nicely. It's sharp, filled with sly observations, and restrained at all of the right places. A tight, dry, satisfying amusement. Certainly worth the bandwidth to give it a try.