Showing posts with label boxing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boxing. Show all posts
Monday, May 20, 2013
Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman
This book is not quite in the same league as The Teleportation Accident, but it was still a great story. It features Kevin, a collector of Nazi paraphernalia who makes most of his friends on the Internet because he suffers from trimethylaminuria. When Kevin finds a letter from Hitler to a British entomologist, he finds himself rushing to solve a seventy-five year old mystery with very real implications. The complicated plot was handled very deftly, and I thought the story, filled to the brim with flawed, unhappy characters, worked very well.
Labels:
boxing,
dictators,
entomology,
historical fiction,
humor,
meta-fiction,
mystery,
World War II
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