Review: A Fun Escape from Reality
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 8, 2013
What would you do if you lost your hamster in an underground CIA facility? How would you handle a symposium hosted by Count Vanillabar? What is the view like out of a glassless window? How can the existence of knives lull "silly bipeds into a false sense of superiority"? And what would you do if your local library "was located on a submarine that was under depth-charges attack?"In "Well-Behaved, Polite Vampire and Other Funny Stories," Oleg Medvedkov offers wildly imaginative answers to these and other hilarious scenarios that will entertain, delight, and offer a much-needed escape from reality. Even in his story titled "Every Day," Oleg recounts events that clearly cannot happen every day (unless you're reading one of his books!). The story involves witches, warlocks, sergeants, and a T-Rex who seems to be annoyed by invisibility cloaks worn at inopportune moments. Highly entertaining!I love the bravery of Space Rabbit  who says, "If I knew what fear was, I'd be scared. For the galaxy." What a noble attitude! And Baron is appealing because of his self-confidence. Just look at his reaction to the silence on his radio show, "By the lack of calls, I assume that either I healed all the problems that plague our fair city OR that mental problems take a rest on Sundays." He has other equally implausible but highly amusing explanations as well.Pick up a copy of this book, read it, laugh and party "like it was 1523." And how would that be? The answer lies in "Samurai's Confessions," one of my favorite stories in this book.