Textbook Discussion: Alex Webster And The Gods By David Dent
What’s a above deity to accomplish when he finds himself washed up on Mt Olympus? Jupiter, once mighty Roman Absolute being has spent two millennia sulking approximately his defeat at the hands of Yahweh and the loss of the abundant Roman Empire. Jupiter and his assorted assortment of gods accept alter to complacent, much the everlasting fountains accept mildew on them and are in charge of a acceptable clean.
Shedding his robes in favour of an expensive Brooks Bros pin stripe three lot suit and Harvard Matter College MBA in plam, the reinvented J. J. Jones is ready to reclaim his throne, the apple is ripe for the picking, he rationalizes “…All the aged religions are fighting each other, exceptionally the Christians and Muslims. We can come up the middle and be everybody’s moment choice.”
He does but apprehend that the way to glory is not an accessible one, the apple is a substantially altered put in the 21st century than old Rome. Again his person Gods are going to charge a makeover, not alone in their appearances however in their attitudes too, provided they are going to fit in.
J. J. realizes that what he needs is a government consultant! Enter Alex Webster. Alex and his sometime girlfriend Vic booty on the daunting assignment of removing 2000 age of stagnation, of direction there are some bumps along the way. Aged habits die dense, and it is not continued before Carmen Cupido (Cupid) gets the name of Dr. Cherish in a native after dark club where he has been practising the art of matchmaking, and future to the care of the community police as the possible purveyor of time rape drugs.
J. J’s scheme for ‘world domination’ is to help into it slowly by fitting the CEO of a global corporation. To aid this he engineers a scheme to merge two companies and alter to the mind. What he doesn’t apprehend is how even resistence he is going to come across from a mere man. Gerry Shilling CEO of Pharmaglobe has no intentions of stepping aside gently, and sees this merger as a stepping stone for himself!
I begin Alex Webster And The Gods to be a thoroughly enjoyable romp. David Dent’s style of writing reminded me a abundance of the unpunctual Douglas Adams, another adept of putting characters in the most unlikely and weird situations. The humour is mostly aphotic and too able-bodied executed. Juno for archetype likens her marriage to Jupiter, to that of Price and Hillary, and as Jupiter is off chasing every bit of skirt in the world, “we alone accept female every hundred years”.
Every page starts with a small adduce, some text of sageness, from Carl Sagen, to Yoda, everyone gets their affirm, however my personal favourite is from William S. Burroughs “Sometimes paranoia’s aloof having all the facts”.
Provided I accept a criticism of the textbook, it is that it is also short. The ending is too beautiful, and certainly paves the action for a moment textbook, and I’ll wager J.J.’s Brooks Bros suit that David Dent is typing out as you glance at this. All in all, I accord this textbook too aerial marks, it is a fabulously crafted idea and one that would transition able-bodied into the ample screen, or a TV series. The characters are larger than activity, the plotlines outrageous, this is what I group as abundant entertainment.
Although it is officially classified as Science Fiction, it should ask to everyone that enjoys a blaze and a scream glance at.
Discussion by Simon Barrett
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