If you want to create a special place, says Mr Bocanegra, put in all the statues you can.
Wonderful World makes for an interesting light read, but honestly it didn't stand out to me. It's a wacky crime story, and a bit of a farce--okay, it's a gigantic farce (when was the last time you heard of the high crime world of antique dealers?)--but as much as I enjoy these styles, something about Calvo's writing never really does it for me. It has all the right things: he takes Stephen King and Pink Floyd seriously and makes them central players in the reality of the story; there are majestically outrageous characters, absurd characters with a touch of prophetism about them; and it has all the color of sherbert ice cream, but I think the flaw is in how he ties it all together: it didn't tie together for me.
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