Robin Anderson Author Reviews

Too Good To Be Trué

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"Robin Anderson Hears a Hoot!"
Grady Harp - Amazon

Robin Anderson continues to write the campiest tales that take on hilarious proportions that further into the
novel the reader progresses. Hi writing is risqué, 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!

This rather brief but well told tale involves the birth to Lady Angina Asquit and her husband her husband Damien of an apparent mistake: as Anderson opens his story, 'Lady Angelica ("Angina") Asquit on first viewing her newborn son gave out a loud shriek, her elegant hands clutching her face in a parody of Edvard Munch's 'The Scream'. The newborn child is a skull (hence the title of the book) and the horror of that birth gives rise to the life of Skelton (Skull) Asquit who with his committed friend Andy (Anaconda) Miller take the reader through the most absurdly funny travels round the world- The cutthroat worlds of fashion and high finance interspersed with that of the Orient, the Caribbean, the Carnevale di Venezia and even the world of the gourmet – a fish dish as never experienced before! - encountering such folk as Lavina (Labby), Chan (Panda Bear), Desmond (Desdemona), Teddy (Beddy), Gloriosa Gonada, Big Dirk Du Toit and Loadsa. It doesn't take much imagination to see how this story will progress with characters named so cleverly and so loaded with double entendre.

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, TOO GOOD TO BE TRUÉ: A MACABRE BUT MERRY TALE is a must.

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"Mayhem, Macabre and Misadventure"
Amos Lassen

Those of you who read my reviews know that I have a special affinity for the writings of Robin Anderson and that I review everything he writes. I have made it my goal to see that other people are able to gain the enjoyment from his writing that I do. You can imagine my surprise when I opened his newest book, “Skull Buggery” and saw that he dedicated to me and this is one of the highest honors I have ever received. I have only “met” Robin via emails that I send him after I post a review of something he has written so this really came as a surprise. Quite naturally I am going to give this book a brilliant review but that would have happened anyway as Anderson has a special skill of writing books that not only draw me in but that usually make me laugh as I read and to me that is really something.

“Too Good to Be True”, Dick Turpin (I have not come across that name since Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd”) and Ned Rusk, his faithful sidekick are our heroes but under the names of Skelton (Skull) Asquit and Andy (Anaconda) Miller. They find that the innocence of their lives has been taken over by intrigue, avarice, lies and betrayal.

They soon find themselves as characters in some outrageous happenings in the worlds of big money and high fashion as they travel around the world from the Orient to the Caribbean to Venice and we eat fantastic food that turns out to be more than it appears and the fun begins.

With a cast of unforgettable characters that include Lavina (Labby), Chan (Panda Bear), Desmond (Desdemona), Teddy (Beddy), Gloriosa Gonada, Charlie, Big Dirk Du Toit and the glamorous wannabe Loadsa and many more, we go on a trip of hilarious happenings and you do not want to miss this.

I have always regretted the death of camp so I am glad to see that Anderson breathes a bit of life back into it. It is Anderson’s wonderful storytelling ability that gives us not just camp but this crazy cast of characters. It all starts off when Lady Angelica (Angina) gives birth to her son, Skelton and lets out a scream heard around the world. While everything is somewhat predictable it makes no difference because the real fun of the book is not looking for the end but reading about how we get there.

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"Wonderful!"
Andrew - Amazon

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