Review: Highly entertaining unique humour
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 14, 2013
"Let's Conquer Paris and other funny stories" by Oleg Medvedkov is a selection of humorous shorts, some highly entertaining, others mildly amusing.In this book Medvedkov takes us to various times in human history. With great skill for absurd set-ups we are invited into the mind of the famous Minotaur, who sees himself as a tourist Guide in his labyrinth on the island of Crete; we follow the exchange of two bureaucratic city guards of Troy and we learn why the author considers Paris as worth conquering.Similar in style of Monthy Python or Douglas Adams, Medvedkov bases his humour on human characteristics, paradoxes and makes us laugh about all day silliness. Some ideas are particularly clever, such as the story about the implications of time travel taken to the extreme, others are worth reading just for their great on-liners.Here is a writer that knows how to have an intelligent laugh about ourselves and modern society without  political or any other agenda than to make us smile. And smile and giggle I did.