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This one has cat & lizard people, a common feature in his bks, & lots of lustful-man-obsessing-over-breasts jokes.. & if it stopped there it wd be hard for me in good conscience to give this a good review. HOWEVER, like any pulp novel, this is a fast-moving action plot full of twists & turns. It's also got lots of imagination in general: things like a robotic dog that dispenses soy-dogs out of one ear while dispensing the bun out of the other.
Goulart is wildly funny & inspired & there's plenty in the plot to keep me interested. I read this one in a day. But.. I hold back on giving him a completely one-hundred percent positive review b/c there's a depth lacking: He's no Nabokov, he's no Dick; the bks always read like things written quickly to get what was probably a small financial return to enable him to live long enuf to write another quickie. They're inspired, they're very inspired.. but they're not exactly profound. Still, the parody is broad & he touches on the mainstream as well as alterni-culture in a fairly thorough way. & this was one of my favorites. ( )