Reviews for Walpole and the Robinocracy

The average rating for Walpole and the Robinocracy based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-10-26 00:00:00 Nicholas Tan I have actually owned this book since the late 80s. It was quite a favorite in a time where the single panel cartoons depicting, well, an unpleasant way to die, touched that irreverent black place in my humor and manifested the most hilarious corners of my teenage angst. It's been one of the few books I've schlepped around since then, always a place of honor in my book boxes and shelves. Honor for all the lovely memories of photocopying a page and displaying it on my dorm door as "Death of the Week." (Considering this was a conservative Christian college, it generated quite a bit of traffic and buzz.) From the skeleton with its foot trapped under a rock, fingers inches from the surface of the water above, to the astronaut floating free as the earth dwindles away, and so on. I figured it would be the perfect addition to my pile of short, October appropriate fiction for the latest read-a-thon. Only, I'm older now, and people do die in unpleasant ways, sometimes even people I know. So it doesn't have quite the same glee to it anymore. There was a melancholy to this reread. But then, the next day, my son came running up to me. "This might be the funniest book I have ever read!!!" And so, four stars it is, for memories, for laughing instead of crying, and for tickling generations of the teenage soul. Book #2 of the read-a-thon.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-01-30 00:00:00 Howard Katz This book once gave me so many fits of laughter that several book store employees glared at me until I left the store. I don't know if I would love it as much now as I did that day, but, it was the funniest thing I had ever seen that particular day in the mall in 1999. It is a wordless comic book of sorts, a bit like Gary Larson's stuff, but, not so refined. It is just depiction after depiction of terrible ways to die. Not for everyone, obviously.