... Which makes it all the more refreshing to read The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse.
'Chocolate Bunnies' tells the tale of Jack: a thirteen-year-old runaway enroute to the city to seek his fortune. His journey there sees him meeting up with a canabilistic farmer, but, this obstacle ... Read review
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THE HOLLOW CHOCOLATE BUNNIES OF THE APOCALYPSE is set in Toy City once Toy Town but now ... more
older bigger and certainly not wiser. The Old Rich who have made their millions from the royalties on their world-famous nursery rhymes are being slaughtered. One by One. Horribly. A psychopath is on the loose. He must be stopped at all costs. It's a job for Toy City's only detective - but he's missing leaving Eddie Bear to track down the mad killer with the aid only of his bestest friend Jack and a wide cast of truly unforgettable characters. This is a wonderfully funny book from the irreverent hilarious writer of WEB SITE STORY THE SPROUTS OF WRATH and The Brentford Trilogy.
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nursery-rhyme characters and leaving very special sweeties as calling cards at the scene of each crime:The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse.Humpty Dumpty is the first of Toy City's upper crust to sleep with the fishes. Boiled alive in his own swimming pool. A nasty fate, but maybe not as nasty as Little Boy Blue's, with his own shepherd's crook thrust a long way into a place where the sun does not shine.Bill Winkie the P.I. has gone missing, and his hard-drinking teddybear sidekick Eddie takes up the case. Down these mean streets a bear must go. He needs a hand, though--two hands, owing to a lack of opposable thumbs--and reluctantly teams up with "gormster" country boy Jack, who foolishly thinks he can make his fortune in Toy City.Of course the police, jolly bouncy rubber policemen who are sadistic at heart, object to interfering freelances. So does the mystery assassin, whoseemsto be a curvaceous woman in a kinky rubber outfit--death on high heels. Even kindly old Mother Goose, madame of the Toy City brothel, gets her neck wrung before she can talk, and Eddie is in serious danger of losing his very stuffing.Fast, demented, fairytale-noir action, filled with gruesomely silly deaths, self-referential thriller gags, and thetrue meaningsof those nursery rhymes whose royalties made Humpty and the rest so rich.Robert Rankin is fond of introducing peculiar, repeated figures of speech, and this book's is the Maddeningly Incomplete Simile. Like this:Hollow Chocolate Bunniesis as good as. It's as weird as. It's as deeply bonkers as. In short, it's as Rankin as.--David Langford
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nursery-rhyme characters and leaving very special sweeties as calling cards at the scene of each crime: The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse. Humpty Dumpty is the first of Toy City's upper crust to sleep with the fishes. Boiled alive in his own swimming pool. A nasty fate, but maybe not as nasty as Little Boy Blue's, with his own shepherd's crook thrust a long way into a place where the sun does not shine. Bill Winkie the P.I. has gone missing, and his hard-drinking teddybear sidekick Eddie takes up the case. Down these mean streets a bear must go. He needs a hand, though--two hands, owing to a lack of opposable thumbs--and reluctantly teams up with "gormster" country boy Jack, who foolishly thinks he can make his fortune in Toy City. Of course the police, jolly bouncy rubber policemen who are sadistic at heart, object to interfering freelances. So does the mystery assassin, who seems to be a curvaceous woman in a kinky rubber outfit--death on high heels. Even kindly old Mother Goose, madame of the Toy City brothel, gets her neck wrung before she can talk, and Eddie is in serious danger of losing his very stuffing. Fast, demented, fairytale-noir action, filled with gruesomely silly deaths, self-referential thriller gags, and the true meanings of those nursery rhymes whose royalties made Humpty and the rest so rich. Robert Rankin is fond of introducing peculiar, repeated figures of speech, and this book's is the Maddeningly Incomplete Simile. Like this: Hollow Chocolate Bunnies is as good as. It's as weird as. It's as deeply bonkers as. In short, it's as Rankin as.--David Langford
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nursery-rhyme characters and leaving very special sweeties as calling cards at the scene of each crime:The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse.Humpty Dumpty is the first of Toy City's upper crust to sleep with the fishes. Boiled alive in his own swimming pool. A nasty fate, but maybe not as nasty as LittleBoy Blue's, with his own shepherd's crook thrust a long way into a place where the sun does not shine.Bill Winkie the P.I. has gone missing, and his hard-drinking teddybear sidekick Eddie takes up the case. Down these mean streets a bear must go. He needs a hand, though--two hands, owing to a lack of opposable thumbs--and reluctantly teams up with "gormster" country boy Jack, who foolishly thinks he can make his fortune in Toy City.Of course the police, jolly bouncy rubber policemen who are sadistic at heart, object to interfering freelances. So does the mystery assassin, whoseemsto be a curvaceous woman in a kinky rubber outfit--death on high heels. Even kindly old Mother Goose, madame of the Toy City brothel, gets her neck wrung before she can talk, and Eddie is in serious danger of losing his very stuffing.Fast, demented, fairytale-noir action, filled with gruesomely silly deaths, self-referential thriller gags, and thetrue meaningsof those nursery rhymes whose royalties made Humpty and the rest so rich.Robert Rankin is fond of introducing peculiar, repeated figures of speech, and this book's is the Maddeningly Incomplete Simile. Like this:Hollow Chocolate Bunniesis as good as. It's as weird as. It's as deeply bonkers as. In short, it's as Rankin as.--David Langford
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...by many a Rankin reader, the Brentford Trilogy is by far and away his best series of books. Which makes it all the more refreshing to read The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse.
'Chocolate Bunnies' tells the tale of Jack: a thirteen-year-old runaway enroute to the city to seek his fortune. His journey there sees him meeting up with a canabilistic farmer, but, this obstacle aside, he continues on his merry way. Upon arrival ... ...up in a detective drama the likes of which he has only read about in Bill Winkie thrillers. The funny thing is, Eddie Bear is (or was) Bill Winkie's trusty sidekick and confidant, and everything that Jack had only ever believed was fiction, turns out to be a whole lot more real.
With a good opening and a stream of clever and amusing plot turns, 'Chocolate Bunnies' starts off as an interesting and exciting adventure into toy-land (or, ... more
As previously stated and realised by many a Rankin reader, the Brentford Trilogy is by far and away his best series of books. Which makes it all the more refreshing to read The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse.
'Chocolate Bunnies' tells the tale of Jack: a thirteen-year-old runaway enroute to the city to seek his fortune. His journey there sees him meeting up with a canabilistic farmer, but, this obstacle aside, he continues on his merry way. Upon arrival in the city, however, he finds that all is not as he expected it to be.
He quickly teams up with Eddie Bear, more by accident than design, and finds himself caught up in a detective drama the likes of which he has only read about in Bill Winkie thrillers. The funny thing is, Eddie Bear is (or was) Bill Winkie's trusty sidekick and confidant, and everything that Jack had only ever believed was fiction, turns out to be a whole lot more real.
With a good opening and a stream of clever and amusing plot turns, 'Chocolate Bunnies' starts off as an interesting and exciting adventure into toy-land (or, Toy City). A good number of characters you never meet turn up dead, but the fact that you know each and every one of them from your childhood makes that OK. Clever use of long-standing children's nursery rhymes, combined with a few other blasts from the past, intertwine in a plot well devised and excellently executed. Rankin's apparent cynisism is not-so-obvious but happily evident in Eddie's brief over-view of Toy City religious affairs - affairs which turn out to be central to the story.
The only major critisism this writer could give is a result of a string of hugely unlikely and loose plot twists towards the end of the book. One of them, which won't be divulged at the risk of ruining it, is actually quite good, but only when you realise that by writing it in the way Rankin has, it brings you in closer to the characters and the confusion you feel is the same as Eddie's must have been. The last couple of twists are far-fetched and largely unfounded, though, which put a slight slur on the feel of the book.
That aside, Chocolate Bunnies is a brilliant read, with a high concentration of cleverly used plagiarisms (a term used very lightly!), representing an innovative twist on a group of stories we all know and love.
If it's an alternative to the Brentford Trilogy you're looking for, this is certainly worth the read.
robcauson 06.10.2006 (18.09.2007)
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Advantages: A good read with plenty of laughs Disadvantages: No Pooley or Omally
...fortune
Having ignored all the warnings of a canabalistic farmer, Jack finds himself in Toy City (formerly Toy Town). Here, he joins up with Eddie, a private detective and stuffed bear (what did you expect in Toy City?). Together they end up investigating a string of murders (which isn't easy with no opposable thumbs!). Somebody is killing all of the old rich nursery rhyme characters.
The first to go is Humpty Dumpty, hard boiled in his own swimming ... ...sex, Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse is a great detective novel.....
This was the first book of Robert Rankin's that I ever read. Intrigued merely by the cover and the brief description in a magazine, I bought it. From the first page I was hooked. Jack with a cockiness that only thirteen year old seem to have. Eddie Bear, as cute as.....
Never before have my thought of nursery rhymes been so blue. You thought you knew Little Miss Muffett? ...
PieOPah 19.06.2004
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Advantages: Great read, young adult humour, murders, search for fortune, what else could you want? Disadvantages: You won't get any sleep as you'll be up all night reading it
...it's a long way from the little town of Brentford, a long way indeed. But that shock will soon fade and you will fall head over heels in love with a new set of characters. If you haven't read Rankin before, he's a lot like Douglas Adams on a sugar high, with this book being no exception.
The book is centred around 2 characters, Jack and Eddie. Jack is off to the city to seek his fortune, after narrowly avoiding the tricks of what can only be described ... ...is actually "toy city". Let the chaos commence.
After several soggy, drunken and darn right bizarre events, Jack finds himself teamed with Eddie Bear, who is not a happy bear. His owner has gone missing, and it is his job, as a private eye to find him, as well as solve all the toy town murders!
The book is a great read with several twists, this combined with the young adult humour found in all Rankins book really make this book a winner. Pick it ...
Beeblebrox42 22.02.2007
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Advantages: Cracking good read Disadvantages: You can't put the book down!
...got to be one of the best books that I have read!
When Jack sets out to find his fortune, I don't think he had the place he went to in mind! After excaping out of a hole by the help of a crazy farmer, Jack finds homself in arriving in Toy City (once known as Toy Town) on the back of a horse named Anthrax.
Thats just the begining of Jack's adventure. Once there he befriends a Teddy Bear Named Eddie Bear, a side kick of the famous private eye Bill ... ...investigate the brutal killings of all the famous characters of nursery rhymes. This book is full of jokes and laughs the whole way though. Of course as with all Robert Rankin books, there are a few characters that we know and love.
I found this a book a fantastic read, and was unable to put it down, and (much to my husband's annoyance) laughed out loud quite a few times. It is my all time favourite book and was even luckly enough to get my copy ...
Giggles22 11.09.2006
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Advantages: Another great book Disadvantages: Wot, no Brentford?
...or his enthusiasm? Had the great well of humour and sheer absurdity finally dried up? It was relief when I picked up a copy of "The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse" and realised that all was well again.
If you've never read a Robert Rankin book prepare to be engaged by a fine writer of fantasy fiction. You will quickly become addicted to his unusual style and the sheer brilliance of his inventiveness. The running gags are all there and ... ...Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse Jack is a young boy who sets off to seek his fortune. He is surprised to find himself in Toy City and even more surprised to find that most of the residents of the city are toys that have somehow come to life. He quickly meets up with Eddie bear and soon he learns that a serial killer is on the loose. One by one the various characters from nursery rhymes are being picked off and murdered in gruesome but fitting ...
Pudding1 09.05.2006
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Advantages: Great Book Disadvantages: Not Mr.R's best
...After leaving his home, the main character, Jack, arrives at Toycity (after surviving the trials of a cannibalistic farmer on his way), where he becomes friends with a small teddy (Eddie) who is investigating murders in the city.......that is murders of certain nursery rhyme characters.
So, its a Sci-Fi/Fantasy cum Whodunnit cum detevtive novel, and overall its a fairly good read, with plenty of twists and turns, peppered with a certain amount of ...
pipk62 17.02.2004
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