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Sprout Mask Replica

by Robert Rankin

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Some books have a profound message. Some books are written to just amuse and entertain with laugh-out-loud humour. Robert Rankin is skilled at joining these two objectives together. Sprout Mask Replica can be just a silly story – with some very odd poetry thrown in at the beginnings of some chapters – or it can be quite profound, if you are in the mood to read it that way! I enjoyed both perspectives, and got a lot of enjoyment out of reading this book. (

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For Jo Goldsworth, who creates order from my chaos on a regular basis.

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0385407068, Hardcover)

THE EPIC TALE OF A FAMILY OF GOD-BOTHERERS

His great-great-grandfather died at the Battle of Little Big Horn. He wasn't with custer though. He was holding a sprout-bake and tent meeting and went over to complain. His great-grandfather (also a sprout farmer and man of the cloth) always wore weighted shoes while in the pulpit to avoid any embarrassing levitations during moments of extreme rapture. His great-grandfather (also a sprout farmer and man of the cloth) always wore weighted shoes while in the pulpit to avoid any embarrassing levitations during moments of extreme rapture. his grandfather (lay preacher, taste for sprouts) spoke only in rhyming couplets and owned a pig called Belshazzar. His father (an elder in the Sacred Order of the Golden Sprout) practised body-modification in an attempt to win a bet with his brother (a monk). And then there was him.

Can this be Robert Rankin's autobiography? He swears that it isn't, but as a self-confessed teller of tall tales, whoever is going to believe him?

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400)

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