Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
Books | Fiction / Humorous / General
3.6
Gary K. Wolf
"Who'd want to kill a dumb cartoon bunny?"That's what Eddie Valiant wants to know. He's the toughest private eye in Los Angeles, and he'll handle anything - if you're human. If you're a Toon, that's another story.Eddie doesn't like Toons - those cartoon characters who live side-by-side with humans. Not the way they look, and especially not the way they talk: word-filled balloons come out of their mouths and then disintegrate, leaving dust all over his rug.Eddie will work for a Toon if his cash supply is low enough. So he reluctantly agrees when Roger Rabbit, a Toon who plays straight man (or should that be straight rabbit) in the Baby Herman cartoon series, asks him to find out who's been trying - unsuccessfully - to buy his contract from the DeGreasy Brothers syndicate.Then Rocco DeGreasy is murdered - and Roger is the prime suspect! The rabbit is also, as Eddie soon discovers, very, very dead.Who censored Roger Rabbit? And who shot Rocco DeGreasy? Was it Roger, or was it Rocco's hot-cha-cha girlfriend, Jessica Rabbit? Why had Jessica - a pretty steamy number for a Toon - ever married a dopey bunny in the first place? And why does everybody want Roger's battered old teakettle?As Eddie combs L.A. from the executive suites of the DeGreasy Brothers to Sid Sleaze's porno comic studio, he uncovers art thefts, blackmail plots....and the cagiest killer he's ever faced.In Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, author Gary K. Wolf has created a wonderfully skewed - and totally believable - world compounded of equal parts Raymond Chandler, Lewis Carroll, and Walt Disney. This riotously surreal spoof of the hard-boiled detective novel is packed with action and laughs. From first page to last, Who Censored Roger Rabbit? is shear delight.Celebrated author Gary K. Wolf's cult classic and highly praised novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? is the basis for the blockbuster Walt Disney/Steven Spielberg Academy Award winning film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.This version includes an author's sketch of Roger Rabbit PLUS autographs of Gary K. Wolf AND Roger Rabbit himself!The detective on the cover is portrayed by Mr. Wolf.
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Author
Gary K. Wolf
Pages
238
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published Date
2015-05-21
ISBN
151231501X 9781512315011
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"The original idea for this story is so good - the narrative style is generally engaging and I love some of the worldbuilding details (the toons mainly communicating via speech bubbles which can interact with their surroundings, for instance, which sadly didn’t make it to the film version). This being said, while I’ve come to expect a base level of misogyny, racism and queerphobia from noir as a genre, especially for stuff written in the 80s, this one aged pretty poorly: using the toons as an allegory for racial discrimination only works to a certain point and has questionable ramifications; there’s a bucketload of misogyny (culminating in Eddie punching out Jessica Rabbit and calling it a “love tap”), and a truly gross transphobic scene two thirds of the way in. While I can see the narrative potential in the series, I think I’ll just stick to the film."
rungemaille
"Honestly love the fact this book is nothing like the movie, I really didn't see that coming"
Kathryn Wiseman