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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Read this right on the heels of The Terrible Twos and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Reed gets even wilder here (e.g. at one point, a conversation between a mosquito, a turtle, and "one of the old ones," Bro Lobster). Much of the satire, though the names have changed, is dead on for our present circumstances. Learn a little about Black Peter and St. Nick. Find out what a "surp" is. Prepare yourself. Read Reed. This is the continuance of the story of The Terrible Twos. It stars Santa Claus, Black Peter, Reverend Clement Jones (a televangelist, faith healer, and White House confidant), and numerous others. It also stars Reed's special brand of voodoo mystery writing. Conspiracy to control the world rests at the center of the book. It mirrors much that has happened in the U.S. Homeless people and lower class people are referred to as "surps" for surplus people. It is population control at its scariest. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
With offbeat humor and on-target social criticism, Ishmael Reed presents in "The Terrible Threes" a vision of America in the not-too-distant future, a portrait of a fairy tale gone awry. Opening on Thanksgiving Day in the late 1990s--three years after the former fashion-model president was laughed out of office for admitting that Saint Nicholas knew more about the workings of the executive branch than he did--the White House is implicated in a plot to rid America of its surplus people and the Third World of its nuclear weapons. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The book is an incredibly fast read, full of thinly-disguised parodies of public figures and clever twists on cultural tropes. It is also, like its predecessor, a Christmas story. Reed points out that the name "Dickens" actually comes from "Nicholas" somehow, and he makes a fair try at redeeming an assortment of characters more vile than Ebeneezer Scrooge. But in the end, things still look to be deep in "the Terribles," i.e. the episodes of public shock that commenced with the assassination of President Kennedy. Aye, they are that.