- Hardcover: 243 pages
- Publisher: Atheneum (October 1988)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0689120230
- ISBN-13: 978-0689120237
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #272,222 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
The pseudonymous Quyth will split readers' sides and addle their brains with this epistolary gambol. Letters by Mobey, recent graduate of SoPrim (Southern Primitive) Protestant Seminary and ardent missionary, describe his catastrophic attempts to convert heathen tribes to the True Word in locales ranging from the Australian outback to the Caribbean, Korea and London. Although the settings change, the joke remains the same as Mobey, the Bible-belting schlemiel, creates havoc wherever he goes, spouting patter worthy of a stand-up comic. In the final scene, a spaceship, bound for Mars and guided by Mobey and the Lord God, lands in Heaven, where they are greeted by Dr. Livingstone"Crispin Mobey, I presume." Although this is a book to be taken in small doses, it's the right medicine for anyone willing to share in the sport of poking fun at our shibboleths and solemnities.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Crispin Mobey is an evangelical missionary who attempts to spread his Southern Primitive (SoPrim) religion throughout the world. In a series of letters written to his superiors back home in Abysmuth, Mississippi, the bumptious Mobey reports on his misadventures from the unenlightened corners of the earth. He even follows his calling to outer space. As we follow Mobey's picaresque travels and the nonstop string of puns and painful jokes, the problems of this kind of humor become apparent; and finally, the book's amusing concept is annulled by an overdose of exaggeration. Dean Willms, Vail P.L., Col.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This is a Gary Jennings book-- but for completists only, Oct 25 2004
By Chris Ward - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Lively Lives of Crispin Mobey (Hardcover)
Gabriel Quyth is a pseudonym of Gary Jennings, author of the vastly superior historical novels "Aztec," "Journeyer," "Raptor," "Sow the Seeds of Hemp, "The Terrible Teague Bunch," and "Aztec Autumn." This book is a fairly labored attempt at satire concerning a bumbling missionary and his adventures in far-flung locales. If you love bad puns and obvious humor (as well as references to popular figures from the mid-eighties), read this. If you're a big Jennings fan, you may wish to pick this up just to see what he was like when he was being "funny," but you'd do better to read any of the above-mentioned novels. Entertaining historical romance with plenty of sex, violence, revenge, and exacting historical detail was his true metier.
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