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While everyone is raving about "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" and "Gilead," they are missing out on something truly original, a beautifully written novella by an extremely gifted writer (poet, according to the web). The search for truth amidst a myth, a quest for sense, a mission centered around adoration, this book is a hilarious, maddening, sad exploration of one man's deluded purpose. The hero is an astrophysicist, or so he thinks, caught up in black-mail, caught up in his own constructs, an inventive figure who, with refreshing originality, can't seem to understand the big picture, and we are guided with startlingly involved prose into this unknown world, a world in which we may or may not have faked the Apollo moon missions, we may or may not have killed JFK because of it, we may or may not have done anything we read about in history books. And, therefore, we may or may not "know." The hero doesn't. Not even the narrator seems to be sure. Wunderlee peppers his tricky content with imagery, other voices, ruminations, and dialogue (from when?) that expresses so entertainingly well this confusion. It's brilliant.


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The Loony A Novella of Epic Proportions Christopher Wunderlee 9781411624504 Books Reviews

What a great book! The perfect length for a challenging read such as this. Have a reference library available, this author clearly has fun with words. A great piece of fiction indeed.
This is easily one of my favorite books of all time. It's so funny and clever, some of it's absurd. Don't believe what it says above. 's citation system must be broken, because there is way more than one book cited. I can count five or six full references in the first few pages (not to mention all the allusions). Obviously a high work of what is being called hysterical realism (Wunderlee shares this genre with Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Zadie Smith and others), or maximalism, it is dense and frantic and strange, but ultimately so much fun to read - beautiful.
I got this book because I'm into the Moon Hoax conspiracy theories. Its become sort of a pass-time of mine, and I heard about this book coming out, and I thought it would be neat to read a novel about it. Only, I didn't know what I was getting myself in to. This book was fun to read. Lots and lots of fun to read. Its hilarious. Its Montie Python does Apollo. There's a scene when the hero of the book drives into the ocean and refuses to be rescued that was one of the funniest things I've read in a long time. And there's some really wacky theories about astronomy that, if you know anything about the subject, are so original, its fun to read.

But there's more to it than that. While I really enjoyed reading it, I also easily became embroiled in the story, and I really enjoyed the way the writer presented the story. Its weird. You get wrapped up in it and you can't figure out where in the world you are. I found myself wondering what the author was presenting a lot, whether or not he/she was trying to present a pro-hoax book, or debunking it, or had his/her own agenda.

The parts about faking the lunar landings are actually brief. There's more about the hero afterwards then during, and I would have liked more about how they faked it. But for the most part, being someone who owns almost every book on this subject, this novel is a welcome contribution.

Anyone interested in the Moon Hoax theories would really like this book, but even if you don't know about the subject, this book delivers a really good story.
After reading about this book on several moon hoax conspiracy and non-moon hoax conspiracy websites and because I have an interest in the moon hoax idea as well, I decided to purchase this book and see how a fiction writer handles this topic. While this book didn't convince me that the moon landings were hoaxed, I found this fiction book is BETTER at describing how the moon landings could have been hoaxed than those of the professional investigators (charlatans).

I will try to give the potential reader a brief overview (minor spoiler) of the book, without giving away the story. While I did find the story a bit difficult to follow in places, my only major criticism is that there is some sort of sexual reference on just about every page and it gets old quickly.

This is the story of physicist, Albert Locner, who played a role in helping the government fake the Apollo moon landings. After this secret cabal fools the world, they blackmail Lochner using his lover and he enters a bizarre world with many plot twists and turns as he is forced to travel all over the country, and as the title of the book might suggest he appears to be either suffering some sort of `lunacy' or is he.

I found the author's discussion of the moon hoax quite refreshing. Unlike the tired and often repeated moon hoax conspiracy talking points (this photograph doesn't look right or we weren't smart enough is the 1960's to do it), the author has Locner be charge of making the photographs appear correct. The author also realizes that in order for the moon landings to be faked, the major governments of the world have to be in on the conspiracy - an idea that eludes every moon hoax peddler (charlatan). Good job!!!
I only read the first chapter of this novel. The author seemed to be going to great lengths to impress me with his vocabulary. I let it pass because this kind of beginning is used a lot in Sci Fi books. But when he got into the meat of the story, it didn't get any better. When you find your mind wandering only a few pages into reading a story, that is not a good sign.
This author needs to focus on "dumbing it down" a bit to reach an "average Joe" like me if he wants more readers than a few eggheads.
While everyone is raving about "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" and "Gilead," they are missing out on something truly original, a beautifully written novella by an extremely gifted writer (poet, according to the web). The search for truth amidst a myth, a quest for sense, a mission centered around adoration, this book is a hilarious, maddening, sad exploration of one man's deluded purpose. The hero is an astrophysicist, or so he thinks, caught up in black-mail, caught up in his own constructs, an inventive figure who, with refreshing originality, can't seem to understand the big picture, and we are guided with startlingly involved prose into this unknown world, a world in which we may or may not have faked the Apollo moon missions, we may or may not have killed JFK because of it, we may or may not have done anything we read about in history books. And, therefore, we may or may not "know." The hero doesn't. Not even the narrator seems to be sure. Wunderlee peppers his tricky content with imagery, other voices, ruminations, and dialogue (from when?) that expresses so entertainingly well this confusion. It's brilliant.