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The Kingdom
Once Upon The Other Day... Welcome to the most fractured fairy tale ever seen, the kingdom of Kingdom, ruled by the mighty King Kingdom and his almost pretty daughter, Princess Norma. Whether it's defending their domain against incompetent barbarians, fending off traitorous cats from the enemy nation of Boffin, or just dealing with an extremely lazy narrator, the royal family is sure to find the worst possible way of keeping their lands safe. Bumbling Royal Guards, a seriously demented wizard, the Ghost of Space Monkey, and more round out a cast that warps fantasy fiction in ways it may never recover from. Welcome to The Kingdom!
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First published August 12, 2013
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Cain S. Latrani
12 books33 followersOkay, so this is where it gets dicey for me. I never really know what to say about myself. I'm not a terribly interesting person, in my own opinion.
My writing is what I like to talk about. I'll talk your ear off about that. But me, meh.
I'm an average dude kinda guy. With a really messed up imagination. Who is now doing merchandise, somehow.
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My writing is what I like to talk about. I'll talk your ear off about that. But me, meh.
I'm an average dude kinda guy. With a really messed up imagination. Who is now doing merchandise, somehow.
https://www.bonfire.com/store/apocaly...
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March 20, 2014
Pack your bags, because this book is a trip! Except possibly for Monty Python or Benny Hill, you will never visit as preposterously funny a place as the Kingdom. Join Norma, the book's heroin, and usually barely enduring princess as she travels every step of this "fractured fairy tale" with you.
Filled with Norma's royal family, their court, and numerous equally wacky characters, you will be guided by the narrator, and writer, Cain S. Latrani. Both entertained and confounded, you will giggle, laugh, guffaw, and face palm your way through Norma's journeys which only the massively creative, and more than slightly bent, mind of Mr. Latrani could have devised.
Puns, gags, and quips, fill this hilariously entertaining book. Each chapter takes you through uproariously bizarre, and funny twists, and turns, all the way to the ending which is worthy of Monty Python at its oddest. You won't know where you're headed, but you'll enjoy the journey.
Filled with Norma's royal family, their court, and numerous equally wacky characters, you will be guided by the narrator, and writer, Cain S. Latrani. Both entertained and confounded, you will giggle, laugh, guffaw, and face palm your way through Norma's journeys which only the massively creative, and more than slightly bent, mind of Mr. Latrani could have devised.
Puns, gags, and quips, fill this hilariously entertaining book. Each chapter takes you through uproariously bizarre, and funny twists, and turns, all the way to the ending which is worthy of Monty Python at its oddest. You won't know where you're headed, but you'll enjoy the journey.
October 20, 2014
If I may borrow from Forrest Gump (and that shows you how old *I* am), this book is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're gonna get. Each chapter of The Kingdom is a short story making up the larger whole, and each story contains things that are:
-Laugh-out-loud hilarious
-Absurd
-Offensive (in a funny way)
-Offensive (in a not-so-funny way)
-Meta
-Referential
-Completely bonkers
-Tacos
Also like a box of chocolates, it is not to be devoured in one sitting unless you want to make yourself sick. This book is best read a chapter at a time, with a few days in between to catch your breath.
The Kingdom is really more of a short story collection than a novel. The individual chapters, with a few exceptions, do not typically connect with the others save for a few references, recurring characters, and the ever-increasing friction between the long-suffering protagonist Princess Norma and the book's narrator. Indeed, one of the book's most powerful ways of making the reader identify with Norma is the shared urge to slap that narrator. Repeatedly. With some manner of very solidly frozen object.
The plot seems to have all the coherence of the last five minutes of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. This appears to be entirely by the author's design, however, so I've no qualms about pointing it out. In fact, the narrative—and the narrator—revel in this incoherence. I'd go so far as to say that, as a novel, The Kingdom enjoys dangling the promise of a plot in front of the reader much in the way the deep-sea anglerfish enjoys dangling that glowy bait-whatsit in front of fish that it intends to devour. It's clear that Cain S. Latrani had a HELL of a lot of fun writing The Kingdom.
Perhaps he had a little TOO much fun, but that's really not for me to say. (I once spent an entire college quarter filming a movie that was a cross between Terminator and Spies Like Us, so I suppose that I can't really throw stones.)
There a lot of books in this world, and The Kingdom is certainly one of them. This is—and I cannot stress this enough—a book that is unafraid to take risks, for good or ill. It took enough risks to make me truly laugh out loud on multiple occasions, so if you're up for an adventure (and have a high tolerance for narrative absurdity and puns), I say go ahead and take a risk on it.
-Laugh-out-loud hilarious
-Absurd
-Offensive (in a funny way)
-Offensive (in a not-so-funny way)
-Meta
-Referential
-Completely bonkers
-Tacos
Also like a box of chocolates, it is not to be devoured in one sitting unless you want to make yourself sick. This book is best read a chapter at a time, with a few days in between to catch your breath.
The Kingdom is really more of a short story collection than a novel. The individual chapters, with a few exceptions, do not typically connect with the others save for a few references, recurring characters, and the ever-increasing friction between the long-suffering protagonist Princess Norma and the book's narrator. Indeed, one of the book's most powerful ways of making the reader identify with Norma is the shared urge to slap that narrator. Repeatedly. With some manner of very solidly frozen object.
The plot seems to have all the coherence of the last five minutes of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. This appears to be entirely by the author's design, however, so I've no qualms about pointing it out. In fact, the narrative—and the narrator—revel in this incoherence. I'd go so far as to say that, as a novel, The Kingdom enjoys dangling the promise of a plot in front of the reader much in the way the deep-sea anglerfish enjoys dangling that glowy bait-whatsit in front of fish that it intends to devour. It's clear that Cain S. Latrani had a HELL of a lot of fun writing The Kingdom.
Perhaps he had a little TOO much fun, but that's really not for me to say. (I once spent an entire college quarter filming a movie that was a cross between Terminator and Spies Like Us, so I suppose that I can't really throw stones.)
There a lot of books in this world, and The Kingdom is certainly one of them. This is—and I cannot stress this enough—a book that is unafraid to take risks, for good or ill. It took enough risks to make me truly laugh out loud on multiple occasions, so if you're up for an adventure (and have a high tolerance for narrative absurdity and puns), I say go ahead and take a risk on it.
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