More about Idiotville...
The shot on the left is from the cover.
Cute, isn't he? Know what he is? He's a lemming! Know what he's sitting on? A cliff! I dedicated the book to him.
Lemmings are cute, cuddly creatures for sure. But they're also pathetic, because they follow the leader when no one is leading. Their final destination, a surprise to all of them but to no one watching, is usually a step or two off the edge of a cliff.
Hmm... know anyone like that? We won't talk about them.
When the mayor of Idiotville gives Charlie, his ne’er-do-well brother-in-law, a second chance to prove his mettle, he sets the stage for the greatest catastrophe the town has ever witnessed. But before things can go nuclear, the lives of the mayor and his chaotic family, Father Bob, town delinquents Rocco, Bif, and Louie, and a host of wild characters bring the lunacy of America’s most ridiculous town to light as it careens from disaster to disaster to…well, disaster. A timely and irreverent journey of introspection and raucous laughter, the novel grabs America by the proverbial lapels and gives it a good shake.
When the Mayor needs some trees infected with the Latvian butt-faced beetle removed from the grounds, he goes against his better judgment and hires his brother-in-law Charlie, a beer drinking deadbeat, to take them down. It shouldn’t be too hard, since the horticulturalist marked them all with a yellow “x”. Of course, the town’s “Tie a Yellow Ribbon” program to support the troops that coincides with the tree job could cause problems if you’re dealing with a complete idiot. And so begins the escapades of the inhabitants of Idiotville.
From the Church of Bob to a really poor use of a time machine, from the operation of the police department to the economy, from entertainment to politics and energy, the daily lives of the town’s inhabitants are examined in not-so-great detail, sparing no one and nothing in a shocking exposé of the goings-on in a typical American town. But for reasons that no one—not even the mayor—can figure out, things just seem to go from bad to worse until a re-booting of the town’s nuclear reactor just might lead to the greatest triumph the town has ever seen.
Teaching that burying our heads in the sand only leads to suffocation, Idiotville is a hysterical reminder that we are all idiots in one way or another, but only a true idiot refuses to recognize bad decisions and make corrections.
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Cute, isn't he? Know what he is? He's a lemming! Know what he's sitting on? A cliff! I dedicated the book to him.
Lemmings are cute, cuddly creatures for sure. But they're also pathetic, because they follow the leader when no one is leading. Their final destination, a surprise to all of them but to no one watching, is usually a step or two off the edge of a cliff.
Hmm... know anyone like that? We won't talk about them.
When the mayor of Idiotville gives Charlie, his ne’er-do-well brother-in-law, a second chance to prove his mettle, he sets the stage for the greatest catastrophe the town has ever witnessed. But before things can go nuclear, the lives of the mayor and his chaotic family, Father Bob, town delinquents Rocco, Bif, and Louie, and a host of wild characters bring the lunacy of America’s most ridiculous town to light as it careens from disaster to disaster to…well, disaster. A timely and irreverent journey of introspection and raucous laughter, the novel grabs America by the proverbial lapels and gives it a good shake.
When the Mayor needs some trees infected with the Latvian butt-faced beetle removed from the grounds, he goes against his better judgment and hires his brother-in-law Charlie, a beer drinking deadbeat, to take them down. It shouldn’t be too hard, since the horticulturalist marked them all with a yellow “x”. Of course, the town’s “Tie a Yellow Ribbon” program to support the troops that coincides with the tree job could cause problems if you’re dealing with a complete idiot. And so begins the escapades of the inhabitants of Idiotville.
From the Church of Bob to a really poor use of a time machine, from the operation of the police department to the economy, from entertainment to politics and energy, the daily lives of the town’s inhabitants are examined in not-so-great detail, sparing no one and nothing in a shocking exposé of the goings-on in a typical American town. But for reasons that no one—not even the mayor—can figure out, things just seem to go from bad to worse until a re-booting of the town’s nuclear reactor just might lead to the greatest triumph the town has ever seen.
Teaching that burying our heads in the sand only leads to suffocation, Idiotville is a hysterical reminder that we are all idiots in one way or another, but only a true idiot refuses to recognize bad decisions and make corrections.
If you want to read current reviews, click Current Reviews in the bar under the title.
