Tuesday, February 3, 2009

8:58 a.m. arrive on moon. 9:00 a.m. start work.

Man on the Moon: a Day in the Life of Bob (Simon Bartram) is a book that once again proves anything named Bob is automatically funny. Actually, this book is pretty entertaining. It tells the story of Bob the astronaut who works maintenance and PR for the moon. Yes, the entire moon. He's kind of in charge of the place. He has friends Billy and Sam (the man on Mars and the man on Saturn respectively) and does NOT believe in aliens. This book is cool because it uses humor that adults understand on a different level than kids who can understand it as well. It also has neat illustrations that complement the absurdity of the story to boot.
I hate to read too deeply into anything because I feel like it ruins a lot of perfectly good things but Bob's decided ignorance to alien existence seems to mimic some of our own ignorance to what really goes on outside of ourselves. Whether or not it's voluntary Bob is totally wrapped up in his own importance to the moon and, as a result, can't see the aliens even when evidence of their existence stares him in the face.

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