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Original Title:	Callisto
ISBN:	0061672947 (ISBN13: 9780061672941)
Edition Language:	English

Callisto

Torsten Krol

Paperback | Pages: 437 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 627 Users | 84 Reviews

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Title	:	Callisto
Author	:	Torsten Krol
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 437 pages
Published	:	February 17th 2009 by Harper Perennial (first published 2007)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. Mystery. Crime

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Odell Deefus, who's not the sharpest tool in the shed, has one goal: to "try my hardest to be a good soldier against the mad dog Islamites." But while driving to an army enlistment office in Callisto, Kansas, his '78 Chevy breaks down on the side of a country road, and it's only the beginning of his troubles. When he accepts a local's offer of shelter until the car is repaired, things go from bad to worse—worse as in murder, drug dealers, tenacious televangelists . . . and finding himself a prime target of the FBI, which thinks he's a member of a terrorist sleeper cell. And none of it bodes well for his unrequited crush on Condoleezza Rice. But fear, rash judgments, and extreme reactions are simply the norm in a post-9/11 world. Odell will just have to deal with it.

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Welcome to Bumfuck Kansas, 21st-Century Pilgrims in the war on terror. Okay, the actual name of the town is the title of the book, Callisto. If you do not laugh reading this darkly delicious and outright riotous satire, it is because you are too busy banging your head against the wall at how very close the narrative comes to summing up our government's mindset on fighting terror. P.S. You don't fight terror, it fights you.

I'm on a hot streak with good books and Callisto keeps up my good stretch. I read Krol's The Dolphin People in March and enjoyed it, Callisto is equally as good. Krol is someone to pay attention to in the future--although I wish he wasn't using a fake name for his books. That's kind of annoying for some reason. Callisto is set mostly in small town Kansas as a simple-wit's car breaks down. All he wants is to get some water and a ride into town but soon he's drawn into a case and the police, FBI,

Read it, they said. It's like Catch-22.Well technically it has pages and a binding and a lot of words arranged in sentences. And I suppose there are four or five LOL absurd backwards catch-22-like sentences in chapter 10. But it's not like Catch-22.

This is the book I've wanted to write for a few years, but Torsten Krol has beat me to it. It is full of amazing and often subtle satire and wonderfully dark humor. It brilliantly captures the post 9/11 paranoia that has captured the hearts of a great many people, especially fundamentalist Christians.The story is absurd, but remains within the realm of possibility. It is expository of the author's thoughts on terrorism, religion, and American politics. A phenomenal, descriptive read full of

Torsten Krols 2007 novel Callisto offers a brilliant, insightful, and hilarious look at modern day American politics, delivered in a highly unlikely package. Krols narrator, Odell Deefus, is a naive, eccentric, and just plain dumb Kansas native who finds himself launched into a series of tremendously unfortunate events after his car breaks down en route to an Army recruitment center to join the fight in Iraq. His car troubles stop him in Callisto, where he meets Dean Lowry, a quiet and

I'm of two minds about satires of America written by non-American authors. On the one hand, it would seem presumptuous for a foreigner to understand American life enough to mock it, but on the other hand, it's satire, so who cares? America is as good a target as any. Torsten Krol, a mysterious writer (even his publisher apparently knows next-to-nothing about him), has created a unique protagonist in Odell Deefus, who is on his way to enlist in the Army when he walks into some very unlucky

Wonderful. Why am I being stingy with the extra star? Don't pay any attention to the stars.Loved the voice. I felt led along, just as the protagonist was. Suddenly we weren't in Kansas anymore, and I thought of wonderful books that break with the voice when it just ain't funny anymore. Hundred Years of Solitude comes to mind.Verily, verily, a book for our time.As I said, ignore the stars.