Robin Anderson Author Reviews

She Married a Zombie Truck Driver
& Five More "Trucking" Tales

"Eight Deadley Sins."
Amos Lassen

A new book by Robin Anderson is always fun. I do not know how Anderson does it but he is always able to
put a smile on my face and good feelings in my heart. “She Married a Zombie Truck Driver…” is a collection
of short stories about the now “eight deadly sins”— greed, envy, anger, laziness, gluttony, lust, pride and
despondency take us to places of “euphoria and tantalization”.

Anderson has updated the traditional sins and added the sin of despondency to make them relevant to
today and to make theme stories of wry humor. Because each story is unique and has its own offbeat
humor, it makes it impossible to summarize them without spoiling the read. We have quite a cast of
characters that includes Claudette Cavil-Carter, a representative of the world of avariciousness and Tom Tattoo Edwards who is there to try to help her take all of what she has with her when her time comes. This is like reading a cookbook of sins with each sin having its own recipe and outcome. Then there is the fact that we get eight sins in six stories that are truly “naughty” (Thank you Grady Harp for finding the word I was looking for).

Reading Anderson is habit forming and I can no longer count how many books I have read, reviewed and relished. His output is so vast and such fun that I have given him his own section on my review site.

Anderson is wonderfully ridiculous and amazingly erudite and sophisticated. His seriousness is not in his plots but in his language and his usage of it to create situations that are off-color is a trait that he owns totally. I love his irreverence and the characters he has created here to reflect that. Don’t take my word for it— have a look for yourselves. You will never regret it.

The stories include “She Married a Zombie Truck Driver”, “The Advert” (yes, Anderson is British), “The Princess Michelin & Mr. Sprat”, “Eighty Six and a Half Percent”, “Four & Twenty Blackbirds” and “Seeing is Not Believing”.

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"‘Deep fried pigs testicles coated in flour and pepper."
GRADY HARP

Anyone who has read previous books by the inimitable Robin Anderson is in for a treat with SHE MARRIED
A ZOMBIE TRUCK DRIVER. Anderson has polished his recipe for entertainment to a fare-thee-well.

He creates impossibly ludicrous characters who happen to bounce off each other in the most unexpected
way, fills his six short stories with incidents that can only fall into the 'naughty range', and yet his manner of writing is so sophisticated and a solid that about one third of the way through his books the reader realizes the farce is meant as good-humored fun and should not be taken too seriously or dissected or analyzed because the author is always just around the corner (or on the next page) with a guffaw to top all previous ones.

If the reader thinks Anderson will never be able to top the wild characters of his previous novels such as the hilarious transvestites of TRANNYS TO TIARAS then swallow hard and discover the madness of one these six gloriously absurd stories – SHE MARRIED A ZOMBIE TRUCK DRIVER, THE PRINCESS MICHELIN & MR SPRAT, THE ADVERT, EIGHTY SIX AND A HALF PERCENT, FOUR & TWENTY BLACKBIRDS, and SEEING IS NOT BELIEVING. Naughty, irreverent, hilarious. Climb on board, if you've a mind to, and go for another outrageous Robin Anderson ride.