Thorne Smith
Paperback | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.85 | 463 Users | 71 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Night Life of the Gods |
| ISBN: | 0375753060 (ISBN13: 9780375753060) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Thorne Smith's rapid-fire dialogue, brilliant sense of the absurd, and literary aplomb put him in the same category as the beloved P. G. Wodehouse. The Night Life of the Gods, the madcap story of a scientist who instigates a nocturnal spree with the Greek gods, is arguably his most sparkling comedic achievement. Hunter Hawk has a knack for annoying his ultra respectable relatives. He likes to experiment and he particularly likes to experiment with explosives. His garage-cum-laboratory is a veritable minefield, replete with evil-smelling clouds of vapor through which various bits of wreckage and mysteriously bubbling test tubes are occasionally visible. With the help of Megaera, a fetching nine-hundred-year-old lady leprechaun he meets one night in the woods, he masters the art (if not the timing) of transforming statues into people. And when he practices his new witchery in the stately halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, setting Bacchus, Mercury, Neptune, Diana, Hebe, Apollo, and Perseus loose on the unsuspecting citizenry of Prohibition-era New York, the stage is set for Thorne Smith at his most devilish and delightful.Point Appertaining To Books The Night Life of the Gods
| Title | : | The Night Life of the Gods |
| Author | : | Thorne Smith |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | December 28th 1999 by Modern Library (first published 1931) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Humor. Mythology. Classics |
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Ratings: 3.85 From 463 Users | 71 ReviewsCrit Appertaining To Books The Night Life of the Gods
Thorne Smith's The Nightlife of the Gods is the literary equivalence of a Frank Capra's screw-ball comedy film. Smith loved his drunken debaucheries, his mean-spirited pranksters, his heathenistic mythological creatures and of course all that drinking and sex. Classy double-entendre styled sex of course. This was the early 20th century. Yet he was also making lots of social commentary, much of it skewering the American upper-class and their often hypocritical morals. Thorne Smith certainly knewWas I reading the same book as those who rated it as four stars? Clunky writing and way too much scene setting. It takes half of the book to get to the gods. However there were some slightly amusing happenings once they joined the cast of characters.I think Smith, like Nevil Shute, had better plot ideas than ability as a writer, based on this book. This might make a very funny film with good scriptwriters.
The word "Madcap" was invented for books like "The Night of the Gods." The title sounds kind of serious - but it's about a doctor who invented a ray that can turn people into statues - which he gladly tested on his family. Somewhere down the line he meets a super cute nude (if memory serves me correctly) fairy - who then both went to a big museum in NYC to zap the God Statues with his ray - which made them come to life. So with the Nude cute fairy on hand, the mad scientist, with Zeus, Mercury
One of Thorne Smith's better outings. When a scientist pairs up with a witch with the ability to bring statues to life, chaos ensues. The two decide it would be a good idea to bring the statues of the gods at the Metropolitan Museum to life. But the gods, it turns out, are too human by half -- they immediately start to cavort, bicker, drink, and carry on in a spree of epic proportions. The word "romp" could easily have been invented just to describe this sort of book. I wonder whether the fairly
Reasons for picking it up: Saw it on a random favorites list on GoodReads, thought it would be fun to read.Where did I get it from: Purchased it on Amazon for the Kindle.(If you choose to read the book you can read it directly from the GoodReads website for free.)What this book is about:What happens when a scientist discovers how to turn living material into stone and back again at will and decides to bring the Greek Gods to life.My opinion:Originally written in the 1930s (published in '31)by
So what would happen if you could turn statues into living, breathing people? And what if those statues were Venus, Diana, Perseus (with Medusa's head), Apollo, Mercury, Hebe and Neptune?You guessed it - a very bizarre story.This is the first book I have read written by Thorne Smith (first published in 1931). However, as a kid I remember watching the TV series 'Topper" and Smith was the creator of Topper. Google Topper for more info.Night Life is a rather wild ride starting off with our
This glorious comic novel is the first 'adult' book I ever read - it is my family's favourite novel. Growing up, I was sure that I was Megaera, and was permanently on the lookout for my own Hunter Hawk. It took a while to separate fiction from so-called-reality, and I'm not sure I have even yet. Nor am I sure Thorne Smith ever did, or wanted to. I love love love Thorne Smith. Buy this book, hook up with a passionate witch, book a whole floor of a hotel and order in a flock of drinks. Lose some
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