Jeffrey Lynn Stoddard makes a fast return to the site. Today we start the release of another of his books, Serpentine Street:
Boo Boisie is a patient in the Barmy Mental Asylum. Sure, the place is air conditioned and clean and the food is occasionally actually palatable, but Boo is not a happy camper. He is being haunted by many unanswered questions . Questions like: why can he not remember the reason for his incarceration? Or why was he given a roommate, Pullet, who acts like a chicken? Or why did they feel it necessary to paint the walls of the asylum with that damned green and white paint? Under the direction of his mental health director, Dr. Pernicious, Boo begins chronicling his thoughts in a daily diary to see if the locked-away memories of his past will return to answer some of his questions. The good news is that they do begin to return. Unfortunately, that is also the bad news. Read Boo’s tale through his own words as he writes of his horrifying and thoroughly unbelievable visit to his Aunt Gertrude on Serpentine Street. It isn’t a pretty picture. Then again, neither is Pullet after he’s laid an egg in the corner of the room.
The first five episodes are out, and I expect the remaining to be loaded up in the coming days. A custom feed from us will give you those episodes one at a time. The default feed is another option for those who want to push buttons manually to make downloads happen.
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January 5th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
This book is hilarious – so surreal! After “The Eye of the Storm” I expected something completely different from this book but I love it! Thank you, Jeffrey!
January 6th, 2010 at 12:37 am
I agree with @Alex. Serpentine Street is pretty darn amusing. Quirky and bizarre would describe it well I think, but only in a good way.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:29 am
Jeffrey,
Well done sir. I was wondering what I had gotten myself into at first but couldnt stop listening. Funny, quirky and a lot different from most podbooks that makes this an outstanding story. I am off to grab your others. Keep up the great writing.
May 2nd, 2010 at 12:24 pm
I’m about 1/2 way in (for the second time) and discovered quickly that this is read at lightening speed! I listen while at work so I shelved this planning to come back when I could just listen! However I discovered a function on my MP3 player to slow down audiobooks – so it’s a bit slower but I’m listening (I wouldn’t have listened at home I know it!) and still enjoying!
September 18th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Sorry, but I didn’t enjoy this. I listened through the first three parts, then gave up. This story seems to be weird for the sake of being weird. I’d enjoy that if the main character reacted to the weirdness in a believeable way, or if the writing blew me off my feet, but no. And I don’t even expect that much from podcast-books. There just seem to be faaar too many extra little bits of weird that ruin the relatively entertaing weird main plot.
Still, this might turn out to be a good story after the rough start, and if that is the case I’m very sorry for this comment.
December 30th, 2010 at 1:12 am
The body of the story is hilarious and entertaining. I could not wait to find out what happens next, in either location. The end resolution, however, was somewhat weak. It tried to explain away too much, which left totally gaping, huge, bothersome plot holes in its passing.
I was very happy to find that the author is not a single-genre xeroxing writer, unlike some world-famous danbrowns. Stoddard actually and well handles entirely different worlds with equal confidence.