It’s a common technique among bullies; they pretend that everything that’s going on is just a joke. It doesn’t mean anything. They get away with physical and psychological assault, and everybody turns a blind eye because that’s easier than dealing with the problem. Enter C. T. Jackson, who turns the technique against its worst practitioners…
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“Dancer on the Ceiling: More Darkly Humorous Tales” by Mark Nutter
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This is a book of creative comedy, mainly based on opposites. Think of an idea that our society holds dear, and Mark will come up with a completely illogical reason to believe the opposite. The story on Reverse Psychology is perhaps the quintessential tale of opposites, except Mark always has to go one step further…
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“Brainstorm” by Nissa Harlow
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This story starts out to be a standard YA Paranormal novel. It soon develops into more than that, mainly because of its quirky sense of humour, in places involving the main character’s extreme embarrassment at having two other characters — who happen to be boys her age — discussing events which happened in the bathroom…
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“Intergalactic Exterminators, Inc.” by Ash Bishop
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This novel is lighthearted Space Opera with a strong but chaste romantic element, making it appropriate for young adults. However, there is enough action and serious conflict to make it appealing to adult Sci-Fi readers as well. The earthly section of the plot is portrayed realistically and well described, with just enough detail to put…
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“Small Stories: A Perfectly Absurd Novel” by Rob Roy Okeefe
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This is a book of off-the-wall interactive humour, with the author breaking the fourth wall often to speak directly to readers and stopping the story for tongue-in-cheek explanations of esoteric details and facts. It’s the story of the inability of humans to get along with each other, as typified by small-town civic politics, with a…
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“Dr. Metifunger’s Transdimensional Veterinary Clinic” by Todd Strubbe
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I would classify this novel as Quirky Sci-Fi Humour. Humour, most definitely. It had me chuckling aloud several times. The premise of the story is a vet clinic that exists simultaneously in five similar, but not completely the same worlds. This gives the author a chance to toss in any number of weird and wonderful…
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“We All Have Our Demons” by Gerrard Tyson
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“Demons” is a novella of about a hundred pages, Paranormal Fantasy with a touch of humour. It involves two separate settings: a college campus in the real world, and hell. The main strength of this book is the balance of the writing. We get just enough description to orient us and pull us in, but…
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“Squabble of the Titans” by Justin Teerlinck
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Where to start? This book is a work of great creativity and considerable variety: part documentary, part satire, part cartoon, part Science Fiction, quasi-historical and in total quite undefinable. However, I will try. The story is revealed in a series of letters between Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States, his family and supporters,…
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“Mainely Money” a Goff Langdon Mystery by Matt Cost
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“Mainely Money” is a standard Smalltown America Private Detective novel, for the most part well written and very entertaining. The plot involves the title character of the series, Goff Langdon, and his friends who live in a small town in Maine. As we might expect, he takes on a case that turns out to be…
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“Surviving Crazy” by Frank Crimi
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The title of “Surviving Crazy” may give a good idea of the main conflict of this novel, but it’s also a good description of the experience of reading the book. When you have baseball teams named the “Raleigh Tar Stains” and the “Arizona Prickly Heat,” that gives a pretty good idea of what you’re in…