A Whole Nother Story (Whole Nother Story (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
In the style of Lemony Snicket this tale has a father and his three children on the run from a corporate mob, a super secret government agency (U.S.), and a Russian spy and his monkey. Dad has invented a time machine. It is not yet operable as Mom wrote the code and the mob killed her. This best thing about always being on the run is getting to pick your own new name. One of the boys chose Joe Smith and was criticized by the rest of the family for a lack of creativity. Then he explained it was spelled Jough Psmythe; much better. I thought it was quite funny. So much fun!! I found this in the FreeCycle pile in my apartment building and thought I would pass it along to my niece and nephew. They might enjoy it, but I know my BCinDC grown-up friends would have a ball with it, so I will take along to the next meet-up.A scientist with a powerful and amazing invention he needs to protect until it is finished, that is being pursued by secret agents, superspies, and villains of all sorts. He is on the run with his three children who were "smart, pleasant, witty, attractive, polite, and relatively odor free." Also the family dog who, because of her habit of drinking out of the toilet, is now hairless and psychic. Oh, and a sock puppet named Steve. One character not fully acknowledged makes the book -- the narrator, Dr. Cuthbert Soup, who after a few poorly-executed similes and metaphors (The hot afternoon sun seemed to melt the horizon like a gooey grilled cheese sandwich . . .), provides descriptions such as "the moon hung in the sky like a rotating, reflective orb with an approximate diameter of 2,158 miles." The opposition in pursuit are also interesting, from the debate about whether the family should be smashed or crushed or pulverized or squished or . . ., to the minkey who is so fond of his fish that they go along on road trips, and the alphabet agents. Then there is cast of Captain's Jibby's Traveling Circus Sideshow and Buck Weston the cowboy poet. Truly this is a story like no other, and I had a great afternoon reading it.
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