Amok! - Part 1
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- Getting the giggles going!
- Wow...this is good. What fun I am having sitting at my computer snickering away! I'd recommend for anyone who's looking for a good piece of entertainment. Love to write more...but I need to get on to chapter 2! Looking forward to more laughs!
- 2007-09-24, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Smart and funny!
- The late, phenomenal John D. MacDonald once wrote: `Two of the most difficult areas to write in are humor and the occult. In clumsy hands the humor turns to dirge and the occult turns funny.'
Frank W. Bosworth may be clumsy (he never did explain just how he broke his foot), but he is not a clumsy writer. `Amok! - Part One' is, at times, elegant, delicate, subtle - and always funny.
Bosworth has an ongoing love affair with words and word-play, from the opening reference to John Milton, to the unabashed homage to Twain and Hitchcock. In fact, `Amok' could even be an oh-so-sly allusion to Pandemonium, the capital of Hell in Milton's epic poem, as well as a word that could be used to describe the madcap situations in this story. Hmmmmm. Bosworth might just be too clever for his own good.
The narrator, Frank himself, is an affable chap with a common rancor for telemarketers, an aversion to fishing and painkillers, and a palpable dislike for his `Frankenstein boot cast.' His neighbor, Carmen, is a sheer joy - Al Lewis meets Charles Bukowski - a hard-talking, hard-drinking, randy old curmudgeon you need on your side, even if you don't want him on your side.
Then there is Rebecca. Dear, sweet Rebecca. We already know Bosworth has a thing for Hitchcock, but was this a reference to Hitchcock's first film? The Rebecca here is no ghost, for sure, but just like the title character in Daphne du Mauriel's classic novel, we never get to meet her - we only hear about her, and the aura of wonder she casts over a story in which she never appears is, well. . . I know what she looks like, and her enchanting visage makes me smile. She will make you smile too.
There is a cat with a peculiar name (I simply must attempt the `Pam' trick on my dim feline), an appropriate cast of whacky neighbors, and a fetching little bird with a sad little problem that falls, almost literally, right at Mr. Bosworth's doorstep. Six winged nightmares swoop in with it (a dirty half-dozen) like angry cousins of that demonic fowl last seen sitting on a bust of Pallas. They are grackles. Grackles, apparently, are about as much fun as flying pit bulls, and could very well have been the inspiration for yet another Hitchcock film.
With the stage now set, the main characters gleefully introduced, and the hook of the story keenly inserted, Act One comes to a dramatic and interesting conclusion.
The only mystery left is how long before we download Act II?
For me, the answer was one simple click away.
There is a point in the story when Frank is looking at a beautiful sky, thinking: `Artists, humbled by heaven's untouchable palette, surely weep.' He hops inside to jot that down, thinking the line is a keeper. He would be right.
So is this story.
ERO - 2007-07-04, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- I like Scum
- Not only is this read a witty one, but down to earth. I loved the cats name and how he came about it in merry ole England-LOL A fun and crazy adventure of humor and not so fast thinking; because he did end up with Scum now did he not?
A must read of all his material!!! - 2007-06-05, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- A fun read!
- Frank Bosworth does a great job of finding humor in every day common occurances and presenting them in a hilarious manner. His story is a fun read. Be prepared to laugh out loud!
- 2007-02-05, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Bosworth never seems to disappoint!
- I love humorous stories. I love true stories. I love humor mixed with drama, blended with true stories. I've only read this first chapter of Frank W. Bosworth's latest submission, "Amok!", but as always, he delivers the best in all three catagories.
This is a tale of an injured man on hiatus from work, living on a limited income near a beach resort in Florida. His characters in this first chapter consist of: himself (autobiagraphical), an adopted cat, an alchoholic neighbor, an injured bird and a sexy lady in the apartment building he lives in. His description of these characters makes one want to read on and read again to be sure you didn't miss anything.
I'll have more to say after I read the next chapters. I absolutely recommend this one! - 2007-01-25, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
