The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin

I've just finished a most interesting book. It's called The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin. The title alone was worth the $10.95 for this British Import. Set in Toy City, it follows the adventures of Jack and Eddie, the bear. Someone is killing the Pre-adolescent Poetry Characters, a.k.a. Nursery Rhyme Characters, one by one in a most amusing manner. The best part is definitely Eddie, the Teddy bear, who hates to do teddy things instead preferring to solve murders and use the sawdust between his ears. He loves to get drunk but, as he's filled with sawdust, it takes an awful lot. As is typical with most detectives, he doesn't have a lot of money so he can never afford to get properly drunk. So he drinks as much as he can afford and then stands on his head so the alcohol will actually get him drunk.

Simply written, though very humorous. It's like a cross between Douglas Adams and Jasper Fforde. A lot of twists and turns at the end which make the end impossible to guess. After reading the Maltese Falcon, I found this much more entertaining as it draws heavily upon the Detective genre. Definitely not a book to be shared with little ones. Also an interesting discussion of Theology, albeit in Toy terms. Hopefully I'll be heading on to the second book in the series, The Toyminator, soon.