On the heels of a post in which my recommendation for a thoughtful video essay by Innuendo Studios was so strong that I provided a link for you to it, to the YouTube video called The South Bank of the Rubicon, today I would like to heartily recommend nothing.
And the nothing is called:
Spy School Goes Wild
Spy School Goes Wild is the 12th book in the Juvy fiction series by Stuart Gibbs, and it's terrific. I have read all of them, and this one might be the best, though all of them are quite good. They are rollicking, wildly improbable kid adventure spy tales with tongue wildly in cheek. This one is particularly funny and even a bit wise sometimes. More than once I felt the strong urge to jot down some wonderful random line, but seeing as I'm listening to the book as an audio book, I have only managed to get to paper and transcribe this most recent line very close to the end of the book. I present it here without context because the context would take way too long:
"In addition to being the international language of commerce, medicine, and science, English is also the standard language of evil."
Maybe you had to be there?
But if this book is so delightful why isn't this a recommendation, you could, theoretically ask?
All the really good recommendations are bespoke. And this book isn't so fantastic that I am compelled despite that to make a blanket recommendation, like with The South Bank of the Rubicon, which, I suspect, didn't work out as a recommendation for hardly anyone anyway. If there was someone I knew who liked this sort of book, I might recommend it here. But the truth is, I just don't think Spy School Goes Wild is quite the thing for anyone reading this now.
This isn't reverse psychology or anything. Reverse psychology rarely works anyway. and certainly wouldn't for recommendations. No, this is just a real, bona fide non recommendation of a book.
But it's a pretty funny book.
Definitely don't read it.
No comments:
Post a Comment
If you were wondering, yes, you should comment. Not only does it remind me that I must write in intelligible English because someone is actually reading what I write, but it is also a pleasure for me since I am interested in anything you have to say.
I respond to pretty much every comment. It's like a free personalized blog post!
One last detail: If you are commenting on a post more than two weeks old I have to go in and approve it. It's sort of a spam protection device. Also, rarely, a comment will go to spam on its own. Give either of those a day or two and your comment will show up on the blog.