{"id":14054,"date":"2020-08-11T18:23:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14054"},"modified":"2020-08-11T18:23:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:23:21","slug":"devil-king-kun-by-dr-h-albertus-boli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14054","title":{"rendered":"‘Devil King Kun,’ by Dr. H. Albertus Boli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cWell!\u201d said Weyland, \u201cthis is a rara avis indeed. The Amazonian strockbroker parrot has been seen only by a priviliged few explorers\u2026. This species is a perfect demonstration of Darwin\u2019s principles of sexual selection,\u201d Weyland explained. \u201cThe male with the best-performing stock portfolio is naturally preferred by the females.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s unusual to get good news <\/strong>in these times, but I recently discovered that the web\u2019s greatest blog, Dr. Boli\u2019s Celebrated Magazine<\/a>, had somehow managed to be revived outside my notice. Of course it has become, once again, a daily resort for me. I also noticed that Dr. Boli had a brand new book out, Devil King Kun.<\/a><\/em> It was for me the work of but a moment to download it onto my Kindle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seriously, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve laughed this hard at a book since the last time I read P. G. Wodehouse. (You may notice, if you are a close observer, that this review is very close to the single review the book has attracted so far on Amazon. That\u2019s because I wrote that review.) Think of the great old, mostly English, adventure novels, by H. Rider Haggard, Conan Doyle, Sax Rohmer, and others \u2013 then blend them into a heaping bowlful of Lewis Carroll. That\u2019s Devil King Kun<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our intrepid hero, Norbert Weyland, is on the trail of the archfiend Devil King Kun, king of Andorra (a microstate on the Iberian Peninsula). In his ruthless quest for world domination he has already taken over the local Archdiocese in Pittsburgh, the key to control of parish festivals throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. And tomorrow, the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We follow Weyland and his faithful chronicler, Peevish, on a madcap chase through North America, South America, and across the Atlantic to the Pyrenees by airship, ornithopter, ski, and other means of transport, pursued by Devil King Kun\u2019s beautiful, cat-suited daughter Princess Kun \u2013 who has plans for \u201chaving fun\u201d with Weyland before killing him. They acquire a pet tiger and a friendly South American native girl as companions, and face pretty much any cliched, melodramatic peril you would expect to find in an adventure novel, escaping again and again by the skin of their teeth through Weyland\u2019s quick thinking and the reader\u2019s heavily strained suspension of disbelief. Realism is a distant dream, and non-sequiturs flourish in verdant abundance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Devil King Kun<\/em> was the book I didn\u2019t know I needed in these insane times \u2013 at last, something too bizarre to believe, even in 2020! I loved Devil King Kun.<\/em> I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is without doubt the most devious tactical accordionist in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWell!\u201d said Weyland, \u201cthis is a rara avis indeed. The Amazonian strockbroker parrot has been seen only by a priviliged few explorers\u2026. This species is a perfect demonstration of Darwin\u2019s principles of sexual selection,\u201d Weyland explained. \u201cThe male with the best-performing stock portfolio is naturally preferred by the females.\u201d It\u2019s unusual to get good news … Continue reading ‘Devil King Kun,’ by Dr. H. Albertus Boli<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[756,798,1135],"class_list":["post-14054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-devil-king-kun","tag-dr-boli","tag-h-albertus-boli"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}