Love in the Time of Fridges, Tim Scott
Love in the Time of Fridges, Tim Scott
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Love in the Time of Fridges

Author: Tim Scott

Narrator: George K. Wilson

Unabridged: 9 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/09/2009

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Tim Scott's inventive and hilarious science fiction novels are unlike any others. Booklist calls him "one of the genre's most promising and original new voices in years." In a strange world where living refrigerators exist in herds like wild animals, Seattle has become a coddled city beset by irrational fears. Enter ex-cop Huckleberry, who's about to see his life take a turn for the weird when he stumbles into a dangerous conspiracy and the fridges become his only friends.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Justin

I really loved this book. It's totally bizarre, but it all makes sense, works together with itself, and there aren't wasted words. The littlest things come back around later in the story. I think everyone needs to read this book.......more

Love in the Time of Fridges gets an extra star just for the title. Scott struck me as a poor man's American version of Douglas Adams, which is really weird since Scott is actually British (he has a BAFTA and everything!). This pseudo-noir is fun and light, though it lacks the sort of jammed packed h......more

Goodreads review by Alan

This frankly mediocre novel struck me as being too much betwixt and between - it has far too many peculiar, surreal elements and attempts at humor to be a serious work, but it's far too morose to be especially funny. It's certainly possible to be funny while depicting miserable events - Douglas Adams......more