Jan Unleashed!
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"Robin Anderson Rides High!"
Grady Harp - Amazon
Robin Anderson continues to write the campiest tales that take on hilarious proportions that further into
the novel the reader progresses. His writing is risqué and cute, full of parodies and putdowns, brimming
over with naughty situations that never approach pornography. He is an apt storyteller, but in so many
ways the story is not as important as the zany characters he creates to unfold his bizarre ventures.
At times his writing seems like a Dr. Seuss tale written for adults with human characters instead of Seuss
characters: if Horton Hears a Who then Robinson hears a Hoot!
For this particular outing we meet the outrageous Jan VB Pedroza who evolves from a nerdy young schoolgirl altered by an encounter with the legendary photographer who transforms into one of Anderson's wilder concoctions. The unleashed Jan spins around the globe in Robin Anderson's inimitable fashion, encountering bullfighters, sitar players, bizarrely testosterone overdosed taxi drivers, an unsuspecting pool man, a President and so much more that it seem the book with undergo spontaneous combustion. It is a Pygmalion, ugly duckling-into-swan transformation that creates a woman beyond control.
Robin Anderson knows how to tickle the fancy and for readers who enjoy the concept of a bit of blushing shock with a heaping helping of belly laughs, JAN UNLEASHED is a must.
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"Pure Erotic Camp"
Amos Lassen
There was a time when camp was an important part of LGBT literature and after enjoying several years of popularity, it faded into oblivion for a while. But then there is Robin Anderson who always manages to bring it back and he does so with grace, style and a lot of laughs.
When Jan VB Perdoza’s has a chance meeting with legendary photographer Bazil Bruno, things go wild. Jan who was once a “dumpy schoolgirl” rises to become an international star international star and Author Robin Anderson brings us her story and the story of her friends Denny, French artist Francois Bruno and Harry. Jan takes us around the world in more ways than one as she meets and “meats” horny bullfighters, wild sitar players, unabashed taxi drivers, “an unsuspecting pool man, a President” and more as she ignites lust and sex wherever she goes. As she gets what she wants, she becomes more and more out-of-control and we, the readers, turn pages quickly trying to keep up with her.
Yes, my friends, Anderson knows erotica and how to write it so that is keeps us laughing. He is a master of parody and satire (I am sure Jonathan Swift would wince reading Anderson). Anderson can tell a story that borders on blue literature but he does is so well that we do not realize just how sexy his writing is.
I have been lucky enough to have almost the complete Robin Anderson library so whenever I need a “pickmeup”, all I need to do is pull a book off of the shelf. It looks like “Jan Unleashed” is going to be that book for a while (until the next one comes out).
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"Fouche"
Tally Rand - Amazon
Always thinking the last had to be the best all I can say is the newest always manages to surpass the last. The Master's latest high camp adventure romp boasts not only one of his 'off the wall' signature plots, it also has a cast of uber-extravagant and OTT characters. My favourite is Big Dirk du Toit, a formerly repressed South African (an Afrikaner), who has since managed to cast off a thick carapace of white-man inhibitions. Desmond (The Desdemona) comes a close second. After reading this, my skull felt not so much buggered as shell-shocked, though in a good way. The last time I had a literary shell-shock like this was reading Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot".