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ENTERTAINMENT
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2009
REVIEW
Book: Motormanby David Ohle
It took me three tries to get through David Ohle's "Motorman." The book was simply too disgusting to take in wholly the first time. Ohle dives into the swamps of your brain and dredges up strange demons for your consideration.
"Motorman" was first published by Knopf in 1972 and has become
ing. The government has manufactured several moons and created a race of zombie-like "jellyheads." Believing he has killed two jellyheads, Moldenke holes up in a room to hide. He is a nervous wreck and he worries his replacement animal hearts will fail. It only gets weirder from there.
a cult novel. Ohle, professor of English at the University, is a quiet hippie who at one point recorded the dreams of William S. Burroughs.
The novel is dreamlike itself; chapters are out of order and you never know precisely where you are. The world is just as disorient-
This is not a novel for the faint-hearted. Don't give it to your grandmother. This novel is acid that will corrode the outer layer of your subconscious so you can see what's inside.
Adam Schoof
REVIEW
Book: Fool by Christopher Moore
Shakespeare's play King Lear is known as one of his greatest works and also a grim and serious tragedy. Fool, by Christopher Moore, takes the famous old play and makes a hilarious, raunchy tale from it. I always had trouble following the dialogue in Shakespeare's Lear, but Fool makes it easy to enjoy a classic tragedy-made-comedy.
The King Lear story is retold from the perspective of the king's fool, an iconic character who usually has some significance in Shakespeare's works. This fool, named Pocket, is a clever, dirty-minded jester who fearlessly teases and insults the royal figures from the original play.
The book includes real quotes and excerpts from the original play, but pokes fun at some of Shakespeare's overt drama as well as the play's setting. Outside of references to Lear, situational humor and funny social commentary fit into the dialogue.
Anyone can pick up this book and start laughing in the first pages, but someone who has read King Lear will be able to appreciate the more subtle, satirical references to the play that fit smoothly in the story.
— David Ugarte
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