Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures by Walter Moers, 2006
This book on the other hand was sick on a badass level. The "
JK Rowling/Shel Silversteen/Douglas Adams should by no means be heeded. This goes far beyond "monumental silliness" into vast reaches of the fantastic imagination. Also often greatly ponderous and sometimes gruesome, it has so much to appreciate. So much I'd probably run out of breath talking about it.
It's a hero adventure but overloaded with madness and it never gives up. Torturing devices infused with a plethora of solutions to run through the victim's veins, stuff that will simultaneously delay and quicken the onset of death, inflict pain and alleviate all in one move. Titanic 12 legged Lovecraftian abominations. Subcutaneous armies of alchemically animated cyborgs. Alchemy everywhere. Traversal of the four brains of a Nocturnomath, imbibing in knowledge unknowable.
I could go on but I won't.
5/5