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Jim Rath's wife has grown tired of his hobbies: his immaculately maintained comics collection, his creepy underwater experiments, and his dreams of building a museum based on the Aquatic Ape Theory of Human Evolution. On the night that she leaves him, Jim thinks he has spotted an emissary from a lost aquatic race called the Nautikons. In truth, the man is a low-level agent of the Department of Homeland Security. What follows is a riveting story of two quixotic men who stalk each other toward a bloody showdown -- a spectacularly moronic act of terrorism at an aging water park.
The Unknown Knowns -- its title is a reference to a quote from former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld -- is a brilliant send-up of the insidious language and sometimes tragically comic focus of our country's Homeland Security Department. Combining the social satire of Kurt Vonnegut with the paranoid delusions of Thomas Pynchon, Rotter takes everyday domestic fixations and turns them into a hilarious assessment of the human condition. Fresh, imaginative, and deft, The Unknown Knowns marks the arrival of a unique new voice in literary fiction.
…perceptive and humorous…Rotter's imagination is formidable and fresh, well worth the voyage.
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| $99.99 | Digital |
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Peter Taylor
reviewed The Unknown Knowns on May 24, 2009
The Unknown Knowns
Ever read those 'choose your own adventure' books as a kid where you would skip pages to come up with your own story?... Well this is much like that to a sense that certain areas should be skipped in the book for the book to be somewhat enjoyable. Allow me to elaborate, the present modern day story is quite good, humorous as well on some occasions, but once our main character drifts off to la-la-land it gets to be dreadfully boring not to mention entirely too descriptive. This "la-la-land that the author created and so often brings up serves as no purpose to the book except to instill the idea of insanity among our main character. So why the description of every pillar, crack, air bubble in this fantasy land? I don't know, my thought is its a page filler needed to fill space.
By now you have most undoubtedly seen me use the phrase 'main character' in my review and are wondering why I have not used the word protagonist or antagonist, well I would if i could but unlike 90 percent of the novels out there, good ol' Jeff decided neither pro nor ant were needed. What it comes down to is that with each page turned no character changes character and you ( the reader ) find yourself hating each character.
P.S. I hope this review had enough 'character'
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