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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled Great Apes about Simon, Kafka's, Gregor with the genre: Science & Math, Biological Sciences.
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conversations.value: Like Kafka's Gregor Samsa, London artist Simon Dykes has suffered a surprising transformation?he's become a chimpanzee. So has everyone else around him, but he doesn't realize it. Dumped in a mental hospital for his delusional thinking, Simon comes under the care of Dr. Busner (an alpha male) and tries to understand the strange new world around him. Chimpanzees are indeed the ascendant primates; humans are a fading offshoot that have simply failed to learn how to sign or vocalize properly. As one might expect from the author (Cock & Bull, LJ 3/1/93), this situation provides ample opportunity for a lacerating send-up of contemporary human society, and the author can be very funny. But as a whole it doesn't really work. The alternative chimp society is not persuasive, and the author is too busy with bad-boy langauge and obsessive sex to get at deeper issues. Buy where the author is popular.?Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"<BR>Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: ?Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"<BR>Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. So has everyone else around him, but he doesn't realize it. Dumped in a mental hospital for his delusional thinking, Simon comes under the care of Dr. Busner (an alpha male) and tries to understand the strange new world around him. Chimpanzees are indeed the ascendant primates; humans are a fading offshoot that have simply failed to learn how to sign or vocalize properly. As one might expect from the author (Cock & Bull, LJ 3/1/93), this situation provides ample opportunity for a lacerating send-up of contemporary human society, and the author can be very funny. But as a whole it doesn't really work. The alternative chimp society is not persuasive, and the author is too busy with bad-boy langauge and obsessive sex to get at deeper issues. Buy where the author is popular.Like Kafka's Gregor Samsa, London artist Simon Dykes has suffered a surprising transformation?he's become a chimpanzee.