Anna Tambour, Monterra's Deliciosa and Other Tales (Prime Books, 2003)For reasons that would take far too long to go into here, it took me forever and a day to finish Monterra's Deliciosa and Other Tales, which is odd considering it's a book I quite enjoyed most of the time. It's taken me almost ...
I only managed to read the first 5 chapters of this.The problem with humourous stories is they either appeal to your sense of humour or they don't and this one didn't do it for me. Instead of laughing at the main character's vapid, self-centred, clueless and vacuous behaviour I just got annoyed....
"Thin for you, Dick?" he giggled. "Please, Father." Dick answered. He still hated the taste, and the batter he was mixing was double chocolate to disguise as much as possible even the texture, once mixed in. Mother was in the bedroom. As usual. Dick wondered who was with her this time. Today was ...