Review: Nothing Wrong With a Bit of Wagner Parody and Tentacles
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 16, 2013
Being a huge science fiction fan and a lover of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen I found this book to be an absolute joy to read from cover to cover.Despite the book being short, it is full to the brim with the type of humour of any worthy parody. I have never read any of Hank Quense’s work before but can safely say that I most certainly will do. From the very first page with its apology to Wagner I knew that this was something I was going to enjoy immensely, and did. The only shame being that there were no more pages to read.I read it in the space of three hours and then proceeded to read it again a few hours later. What can I say, I enjoyed it.I strongly recommend this book to those who enjoy reading books that play around with genre and reimagine the stories to feature characters as eight brained, tentacle aliens and the like, with mythology thrown in on top to create something that is almost unique in its approach.I have since passed the book on to a friend of mine who is as amused by it as I am.Really can’t wait to read more.