Foop!

Someday Chris Genoa may look back on this novel as sophomoric and simple. Someday, Chris may even cringe at the editing and typography. Maybe. Then again, he may look at it and laugh his head off. While Chris has all the potential in the world to stand in the literary shadows of Christopher Moore, there's something just not completely right with this book.I liked it, mostly. It's a fun read, if not a little tired at times. I feel like I've read most of the storyline before in one form or another. It's almost like Chris was paying homage to Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, though just coming up a bit short.Foop is a fun read, and at times engaging. The characters constantly find themselves in weirder and weirder situations that seem to lead to an inevitable, though pat, conclusion.Not enough to satisfy my Christopher Moore withdrawals, but fun enough to forget the hunger pangs for a while.

Here is what happens in this book. odd,odd,odd,hahaha,cricket,cricket,cricket, over and over. There are some very funny parts, some very odd parts and some very boring parts. Then the anti climatic ending left me feeling ripped off. There were several times that I was reminded of Robert Rankin and Chuck Palahniuk but it seems as if there was no follow through in his thinking.

Well, I just finished 'FOOP' and it was quite a trip but overall I was not impressed. I enjoyed parts of the book and found some sections were very creative and funny.I should say that I like offbeat and unusual writers and humor- Jasper Fforde, Tom Holt, Neil Gaiman, Liberty Meadows, Monty Python come to mind, but this book was like an aimless road trip. Holt and Gaiman can take you to other places while providing a touchstone of familiarity, not to be confused with reality. Python twisted the everyday into something bizarre but something you could, in a weird way, relate to.This book has some elements of that style of humor but bounces around and seems to be searching for an ending. But heck, maybe that's the point; it is a time travel novel. If you want to read a creative, but flawed first book, give this a try; just don't expect Pynchon, Pratchett, Holt, Python, or Jasper Fforde.For a great time travel book, try 'The Man Who Folded Himself', by David Gerrold, that is an awesome read.

From the beginning of this book, I was completely engaged! It was surreal, comic, and almost felt like a text version of an animation. However, the story indulges itself as it progresses and loses focus. I read the first half in a few days and the second half took me a month to get through...

This novel was hilarious, but the only thing I got out of it was mild amusement. It got tiresome in a way.