Saturday, December 17, 2011

Un Lun Dun


 At the beginning, there is a Shwazzy (referring to french: Choisi, which means chosen.) called Zanna, which is short for Susanna. She is supposedly  the very person who will help UnLondon, the London beneath the actual one. But everything goes wrong when she is about to summon up her powers over air and is knocked out by the most terrible, cunning, deadly enemy ever:
Smog.
When she recovers, she has no memory of the happenings in UnLondon. With her knowledge of the Phlegm Effect, Deeba, Zanna's best friend, realizes that the environmental minister, Rawley, has traveled to UnLondon too. In a daring attempt to save UnLondon, Deeba runs up a staircase of books.....but will she succeed? Read it to find out!

A word about this book: This book is probably the most unconventional  book I've ever read. Generally, the hero or heroine perseveres throughout the entire book and finally triumphs. But Zanna's loss of memory at the very beginning just made me laugh. The author brought about a pleasant change in an otherwise monotonous world.

The True Giraffe
Un Lun Dun changes what you know about the world. It turns out that Giraffes aren't herbivores, and neither do they have long necks just to eat plants from tall trees. In fact, Giraffes will eat any animal they see, and share the skin of the animal with their mouth to show that it is their prey. They were just putting on a big show up in the real world.
Naturally, Sharks aren't the perfect predators. Black Windows are. Windows with eight legs are enough to make anyone jumping out of their skin, isn't it? I hope I didn't forget to mention that if anything enters the window of a Black Window, it never comes out...unless someone pulls it out. Like poor Rosa.
Binja
Of course, there are the binja. These highly trained, silent trash cans are, other than unbrellas, the only things that can actually fend off the Smog's attacks. The art of the War Fan has been extremely usefull to them.
Then there are the conductors. As they proudly say, "In our training, we were trained not only to conduct buses, but also ELECTRICITY!" Mr. Jones is quite an important conductor.
Smombies
Book. That sarcastic, continuously whimpering book that has hundreds and hundreds of pages of utter rubbish. But there are somethings that are correct, such a
"NOTHING AND THE UNGUN."
The UnGun. I can't believe I forgot to tell you about it. An old fashioned revolver that shoots hair, salt, paper....pretty much anything thats in it. It figures out how to use each object in the best way. It is supposedly the only object that the smog is scared of.
AAAAH, the smog. In the form of Smombies, or just by itself, the Smog is a powerful enemy. Only the UnGun, Klinneract, or Armets can destroy it. But a sudden realization takes Deeba even more into the darkness.....

2 comments:

  1. Good review but is it real about Gireaffes?

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  2. yes....alt least thats what it says in the book. I love the way the author made every thing so unrealistic...its like a parody of the real world.

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