Badger Waddle Nigel Edwards 9781909636002 Books
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Life in the quaint English hampton of Badger’s Waddle is never quite the same as elsewhere in the country... or any other country for that matter. The first sign of impending chaos was when giant rabbits breached the defenses all along the indeterminate length of the vegetable garden of Little Twee cottage.
To patch up the defenses took the combined efforts of the resident gastrognome and a Crippin & Hare Indifference Engine operated by Tavarius Truckle, the man with the highest ever score in an apathitude test. But when tourists start exploding at the village fete, bank deposits build up a critical pressure, and the church’s resident saint finds a loophole in his contract of supra-ecclesiastical employment, the whole hampton must unite to restore some semblance of normality (except for Tavarius Truckle, who’s far too apathetic to care).
Only Goode Nurture, the nice old lady in the tall, pointy black hat, has been preparing for this moment, shaving her gibbons in readiness for the looming crisis.
This book will be lapped up by followers of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, and fans of Tom Holt and Douglas Adams. But be warned… underneath the polite gentility of English good manners, this book is very, very, rude!
Badger Waddle Nigel Edwards 9781909636002 Books
This book is an odd little gem. It's extremely British, I think, and reads like the lovechild of E.F. Benson and Terry Gilliam.I liked how all the different threads, the vignettes of different folks in the village of Badger's Waddle, wove around and past each other to make a full picture of the town. I equally liked the bizarre and twisted supernatural and/or sci-fi elements as each came into play, and how the townspeople handled them all as a fact of life.
The facetiously traditional people and solid core of historical realism are presented alongside some truly inventive stuff: the Indifference Engine, the CFC factory complex, the Saints' afterlives, just to name a few.
The only major caveat I give about this book is as follows: there is not much to connect with, unless perhaps you live in a vaguely similar village to Badger's Waddle or know people similar to its denizens. Any other possibility of personal investment is rather trampled by The Cleverness Of It All, and the book can best be enjoyed with a sort of clinical detachment. Hey, much like the works of E.F. Benson and Terry Gilliam!
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Badger Waddle Nigel Edwards 9781909636002 Books Reviews
This book is an odd little gem. It's extremely British, I think, and reads like the lovechild of E.F. Benson and Terry Gilliam.
I liked how all the different threads, the vignettes of different folks in the village of Badger's Waddle, wove around and past each other to make a full picture of the town. I equally liked the bizarre and twisted supernatural and/or sci-fi elements as each came into play, and how the townspeople handled them all as a fact of life.
The facetiously traditional people and solid core of historical realism are presented alongside some truly inventive stuff the Indifference Engine, the CFC factory complex, the Saints' afterlives, just to name a few.
The only major caveat I give about this book is as follows there is not much to connect with, unless perhaps you live in a vaguely similar village to Badger's Waddle or know people similar to its denizens. Any other possibility of personal investment is rather trampled by The Cleverness Of It All, and the book can best be enjoyed with a sort of clinical detachment. Hey, much like the works of E.F. Benson and Terry Gilliam!
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