The Monks of Appalling Dreadfulness
John Connolly
John Connolly's The Monks of Appalling Dreadfulness begins with the words
In Which We Are Reunited Some Time After the Appearance of the Last Volume. You Look Lovely, By the Way. What Have You Done to Your Hair?
This is the Chapter 1 heading. From this I surmise that it might be related to some other work Connolly has written. What that would be, I don't really know -- it is the first thing by Connolly I have ever read. It probably won't be the last.
The truth is, I couldn't tell you that happens in tMoAD. Perhaps if I could it would rate five stars. It is just one joke after another, held together by a thin tissue of plot, incomprehensible to the uninitiated reader (or at least to THIS uninitiated reader). But it made me laugh and want to read more. I assert that any book that accomplishes those two things is a Good Book!
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