A Whole Nother Story - Book Review by Joe W.

A Whole Nother Story by Dr. Cuthbert Soup



A Whole Nother Story is about a man named Ethan Cheeseman, who is trying to perfect his time-machine, the CVR. He and his kids are on the run from the government agencies who want to get their filthy hands on the time-machine, for reasons that are never fully explained. So Ethan and his chidlren (Jough, Maggie, and Gerard) and his psychic dog, who barks when danger is near, constnatly move from town to town, changing their names and identities.

In their crazy travels, they meet various members of Captain Jibby's Traveling Circus, which has an odd cast of performers: a strong man who hurt his back too bad to lift anything, a fortune-teller with short-term memory loss, a tight-rope walker who had his speaking privileges revoked, and a sword swallower who lost his hand while feeding a tiger. While camping, they also come across a cowboy who wants to be a poet, and is trying to come up with something good enough for the annual poem contest. The Cheeseman family is being pursued by three different companies: one named Plexiwave, which ordered Agents 5, 23, 88, and 207 to take the CVR from the Cheesemans, one whose name is unknown, but they have Agents Aitch Dee and El Kyoo chasing after the Cheeseman family, and a third one who also has no name, but Agents Pavel and Leon (who's a chimpanzee) to use to trail the Cheesemans. All 3 of the coprorations may be on their trail, but the Cheesemans have a reason to risk their lives for the CVR: Olivia Cheeseman (Ethan's late wife) was murdered by Plexiwave so they could get the CVR. Ethan might have been persuaded, but Olivia, realizing that these people would use it for evil, refused any offer, no matter how much money they were wililng to give. That's when Plexiwave realized: the only way to get the CVR would be to get Olivia out of the way. So, she was called in for a doctor's appointment, in which she found that their normal doctor was sick and so a stand-in did the appointment. The stand-in doctor (who was working for Plexiwave, and probably killed the normal doctor) injected her with a drug that was supposed to keep her healthy. But of coure, Plexiwave is evil. The drug made Olivia's health rapidly get worse until one day, when she could live no longer. But in her sickness, she realized what had happened and re-coded the CVR so that even if Plexiwave did get it, they couldn't use it. The only problem was, she never told the new code needed to Ethan. She did write it down, but Ethan only has the first half of the paper. And he can't find the time to test out a bunch of different combinations, due to him constantly having to take apart the CVR and run off to a new town so they don't get caught by any of the 3 corporations. The book seems like a kid's book judging by the cover (and yes, I know that stupid saying) but it's worth reading in to. Considerint that thisis the author's first book, it has a good plotline and cliffhanger ending. It's funny at times as well. So get it. Now.


Review by Joe W.