gallyangel
1/23/2016
What do you get when you combine the following?
A Playboy-type publisher who is still a virgin at 40...
A Housewife who gets a job as a Betty-Crocker figure, who is frozen between commercials to preserve her shelf-life as an advertising figure...
A military school run by a general who goes off to found a group of go getter army boys called the "Pink Barrettes"...
The head of the joint-chiefs who is far more interested in a battle Napoleon fought over anything going on today...
Two elderly communist hunters...
A man who gets himself copied onto tape...
A televangelist who gets replaced by a robot...
An artist who gets out of the way and lets the robot do the work...
Assorted fashion people...
Assorted drunks, con men, advertising exes, white supremacists, black panther types, native americans, and a millionaire whose favorite TV show is peeping in the windows at real people...?
This is just some of the mayhem that is The Muller-Fokker Effect.
It reads just like some of the zany comedies of the sixes that are a send up of everything contemporary. From the swinging party scene, to racial and sexual politics, through revolution in the streets and military projects to fundamentalism and the military-industrial complex (which has added food production to it's control) this novel pokes fun at the whole crazy lot.
It's one of those novels which has to be read to believed.
I think it's a fading comedy, looking at the turbulent times that were the sixties. It deserves more of a readership. This novel has lots to offer in the way of sharp humor concerning the times in which it was written.