Review: Confusing at the Start, Pictures Not Very Large, Story Seems to Be Missing Something
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2012
This is a bit of an odd book, the cover tells us it's based on a story by John H Carroll, although not which story that is.  The whole point of this therefore seems to be putting illustrations into the skeletonised remainder of the story.  The end product is a bit odd then.  The pictures are pretty small, some pages don't even have pictures, and in fact the first page doesn't have any at all.  The pictures that exist are interesting, colourful and well drawn but they are very small. They are laid out like someone is inserting images into a Microsoft Word document and hasn't discovered how to wrap the text around the image or anything other than centring between paragraphs or the most frequently done, centred under just a few lines of text.  I don't understand why the pictures aren't bigger, they are small on a PC, definitely not designed for small screen portable Kindle devices.The story itself ends abruptly, there's not much to it, it seems like it should be continuing on when you simply can't proceed any further.  Basically a father is telling his child what it will be like with its new cat Goober and the mischief the boy will get up to with his pet.This is worth checking out if still a free download but I wouldn't pay money for it.  It doesn't have the humour or out there writing that John Carroll's bizarre style short stories have. I'd download one of those instead.