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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149512.Pixy?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Pixy" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1172203059m/149512.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149512.Pixy?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Pixy</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/86442.Max_Andersson">Max Andersson</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5908229?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 5 of 5 stars To celebrate a weekend that was generally quite un-pleasurable, today I finished 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid', which I had picked up at the airport (I know). It did do nothing much to humour me.
 Really, I give Bryson that his father was a very good sports writer, even the short paragraphs of his work that the book features show that (I keep repeating to myself 'the lordly Yankees') , but Bryson himself? 'Laugh-out-loud'? Not that I would have noticed....anyway...in one paragraph which proves to be interesting after all, Bill Bryson recounts his missing out on his paper route, because he was too bogged down in private fantasies; one of which was, how 'Bizarro world' would work.
 'Bizarro World was a planet that featured in some issues of Superman Comics. The inhabitants of Bizarro World did everything in reverse - walked backwards, drove backwards, switched televisions off when thy wanted to watch and on when they didn't, drove through red lights but stopped at green ones, and so on. Bizarro World bothered me enormously because it was so impossibly inconsistent. The people didn't actually speak backwards,but just talked in a kind of primitive cave man 'me no like him' type of English, which was not the same thing at all. Anyway, living backwards simply couldn't be made to work. At the gas station they would habe to take fuel out of their cars rather than put it in, so how would they make their cars go? Eating meals would mean sucking poo up through their anus, sending it through the body and ejecting it in mouth-sized lumps on to forks and spoons. It wouldn't be satisfactury at all.'
 Of course, I didn't think that all this couldn't be make to work, but rather sided with Willoughby, Bryson's more brainy friend. Since all laws of science would have to be reversed as well, there would be no primes any more.
 One place where all of this is perfectly envisioned is 'PIXY' by Max Andersson, one of the best comic books I've ever known.
 In the realm of the dead, Andersson shows the people to live backwards, and, what shall I say - they eject mouth-sized lumps on their forks and spoons (mercifully, one is spared the 'sucking up' part).
 So there I was, at my ease, considering what it would be like for the time to go backward, through heartbreak and love to a time of innocence.
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To celebrate a weekend that was generally quite un-pleasurable, today I finished 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid', which I had picked up at the airport (I know). It did do nothing much to humour me.
Really, I give Bryson that his father was a very good sports writer, even the short paragraphs of his work that the book features show that (I keep repeating to myself 'the lordly Yankees') , but Bryson himself? 'Laugh-out-loud'? Not that I would have noticed....anyway...in one paragraph which proves to be interesting after all, Bill Bryson recounts his missing out on his paper route, because he was too bogged down in private fantasies; one of which was, how 'Bizarro world' would work.
'Bizarro World was a planet that featured in some issues of Superman Comics. The inhabitants of Bizarro World did everything in reverse - walked backwards, drove backwards, switched televisions off when thy wanted to watch and on when they didn't, drove through red lights but stopped at green one...more To celebrate a weekend that was generally quite un-pleasurable, today I finished 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid', which I had picked up at the airport (I know). It did do nothing much to humour me.
Really, I give Bryson that his father was a very good sports writer, even the short paragraphs of his work that the book features show that (I keep repeating to myself 'the lordly Yankees') , but Bryson himself? 'Laugh-out-loud'? Not that I would have noticed....anyway...in one paragraph which proves to be interesting after all, Bill Bryson recounts his missing out on his paper route, because he was too bogged down in private fantasies; one of which was, how 'Bizarro world' would work.
'Bizarro World was a planet that featured in some issues of Superman Comics. The inhabitants of Bizarro World did everything in reverse - walked backwards, drove backwards, switched televisions off when thy wanted to watch and on when they didn't, drove through red lights but stopped at green ones, and so on. Bizarro World bothered me enormously because it was so impossibly inconsistent. The people didn't actually speak backwards,but just talked in a kind of primitive cave man 'me no like him' type of English, which was not the same thing at all. Anyway, living backwards simply couldn't be made to work. At the gas station they would habe to take fuel out of their cars rather than put it in, so how would they make their cars go? Eating meals would mean sucking poo up through their anus, sending it through the body and ejecting it in mouth-sized lumps on to forks and spoons. It wouldn't be satisfactury at all.'
Of course, I didn't think that all this couldn't be make to work, but rather sided with Willoughby, Bryson's more brainy friend. Since all laws of science would have to be reversed as well, there would be no primes any more.
One place where all of this is perfectly envisioned is 'PIXY' by Max Andersson, one of the best comic books I've ever known.
In the realm of the dead, Andersson shows the people to live backwards, and, what shall I say - they eject mouth-sized lumps on their forks and spoons (mercifully, one is spared the 'sucking up' part).
So there I was, at my ease, considering what it would be like for the time to go backward, through heartbreak and love to a time of innocence....less

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