the other book review

In a not too dis­tant future, being f*t (read fat) is ille­gal. Laws to imprison peo­ple who have a too high per­cent­age of body f*t have been made and a Health Enforce­ment team is work­ing the streets of New York to spot any­one who is over­weight (‘humon­sters’). Matt Devlin is one of the agents work­ing for this team, and he’s con­tent writ­ing out tick­ets for f*t peo­ple. But his rou­tine is shat­tered when a dead body is found near an ille­gal ‘eateasy’; the body only wear­ing a bikini of the best, rarest and purest choco­late (‘brown’). And of course choco­late is an ille­gal sub­stance to posses and eat. So, the ques­tion that arises is this: Who’s crime is this…is it a case for homi­cide or the mel­low Health Enforce­ment? Or can both apart­ments work this case together?…f*t chance!

Although I give this book only two stars, I don’t want to give it the tag ‘don’t bother’, because I think this book has some­thing to offer for some peo­ple. And I have given the book the tag ‘humor’, although for me this wasn’t entirely true. But still, I do see the attrac­tion of the book, it just wasn’t for me. I think for me the prob­lem is that the book/story takes itself too seri­ously. You can make a satire on the cur­rent soci­ety and cul­ture, but then you have to take it to extremes to make it really work. And although it is absurd that being f*t is ille­gal, it wasn’t far-fetched enough, for me anyway.

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