Mike Nelson's Death Rat!
by Michael J. Nelson

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Book Reviews of Mike Nelson's Death Rat!

Book Review: A Great and Wonderfully Humorous -- Gentle Book
Summary: 5 Stars

Now, Nelson writes his first fiction novel. The result is a very funny, and cockeyed look at Minnesota and Minnesota popular culture. The major character "Ponty" Feeb is a likeable character, despite the fact that he has lacked any great success in life, though he has done some impressive things. Feeb is at an all-time low when the book begins. In his desperation, Ponty ends up doing a desperate thing and conspires with another somewhat less desperate, but handsome, actor to craft a petty conspiracy that quickly goes both quite well yet also dangerously off their plan. When their effort becomes a roaring success it brings in three major figures all clearly but loosely-based on major Minnesota icons, Garrison Keillor, Prince, and Jesse Ventura.

Both urban and rural Minnesota is portrayed in the book, but unlike many other books when portraying "rustic" people, the small-towners in "Death Rat" are no one's fools and are quite able to take advantage of the situation provided them.

Despite its purpose as a humorous-work (and make no mistake its very very funny) the book has a gentle nature about it, while being a parody,. Nelson obvious likes the people he is writing about, rather than having contempt for them, which one might have expected based on the nature of his prior non-fiction work. Among the best aspects of the novel are the delightful density of the paragraphs where one notices both obvious and then much more subtle jokes.

A great first effort and hopefully the first of many from Mike Nelson.

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