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Book Reviews
The King (Rick
Koslowski)
Reviewed by Elvis News
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Beforehand
� knowing our "love" for impersonators � this book didn�t make our
hearts beat faster. But as always, we give anything a chance, we
decided to do our work and review this comic novel about an
impersonator, written by Rich Koslowski (ISBN 1-891830-61-1).
Well, it was harder than we thought. In over one month one of our
reviewers � the one that hardly reads anything else than comics �
wasn�t able to beat more than 18 pages. So we passed the stick to
our hard core reader. He used only a couple of hours, but had to
give up at one third of the 250+ pages. The book was neither funny
nor thrilling. The start is very tasteless: Elvis popping pills on
his �throne� on August 16, 1977. And it doesn�t get much better. The
phonetic written southern drawl is very irritating to read. It can
be funny in a single cartoon, but having it page after page is just
too much.
The drawings are not bad, but also not very special. Those who know
Ger Rijff�s comic outings on Elvis know at least a resembling comic
figure, something we can�t say about this comic novel.
Conclusion
The only thing we can say is stay away, Joe (and all others). You
will probably find it a waste of time, money and good taste
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