Saturday, 2 October 2010

Timoleon Vieta come home by Dan Rhodes


I'm back! Also after a 5 month hiatus coincidentally~
I partly blame my fellow supergeeks non-posts for my lack of posts, but also because I get so lazy over the weekends, I can't quite bring myself to write something that uses more than 5% of brain power.

Anyhoo, I just finished Timoleon Vieta come home the night before. This is my second Dan Rhodes book, the first being Little Hands Clapping.

Rhodes writes very well, he has a clean, concise style, almost like a children's-book way of writing but with much darker themes. TVCH is supposed to be a parody of the classic"Lassie come home"film, and while I can't remember what happened in Lassie, man, are the characters in TVCH tragic. There were instances where I would put down the book and go," Wah lau, that person is damn cham man."

All in all, still a good and easy read. 7 dog saliva-soaked biscuits.