When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow – the novel that no one dared publish – looks set to become a comic classic,This is Rhodes’ funniest book – which is really saying something given the standard of his back catalogue… laugh-out-loud hilarious,A zippy little farce… the Dawkins character is a hoot,Finally, one plucky publisher has taken on the challenge of the book hailed by Michael Holroyd as a satire “as devastating as Candide”,Very funny – a satire as devastating as Voltaire’s Candide,Very, very funny; also, slyly philosophical,Dan Rhodes is totally sick and brilliant in all the right ways,Mixing knockabout humour and double entendres with some slyly profound commentary on the atheism versus religion debate, Rhodes doesn’t seem to have an agenda, popping the pomposity bubbles of both sides with aplomb,A farce that spins like a carousel, yet still manages to tell a good story and settle a few theological scores,Going too far is Dan Rhodes’ forte
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