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WEB SITE STORY. Robert Rankin For the mathematician see Robert Alexander Rankin.

For the Conservative politician see Sir Robert Rankin, 1st Baronet.

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. 2001. Read by Christopher Kay. 8 tapes. 12 hrs. Recorded Books. 1-84197-291-6. $39.95. Vinyl; plot notes. A

Rankin's wickedly gleeful glee·ful  
adj.
Full of jubilant delight; joyful.



gleeful·ly adv.

glee
 novel shows why he is the king of far-fetched fiction. One surely can't fling it much farther than this: in the year 2022, the London borough of Brentford, known for its resistance to any sort of change, is experiencing a series of bizarre happenings and disappearances and all because the Millennium Bug--ignored once the opening of the 21st century did not result in the technological havoc that doomsayers predicted--is not only alive and well but is being spread by (computer) mouse and affecting people!

A side-achingly silly, absurdist distortion of our current pop culture, the book goes everywhere at once and nowhere at all in a rollicking rol·lick·ing  
adj.
Carefree and high-spirited; boisterous: a rollicking celebration.



rol
 grand style. And maybe we really are all simply automated player/icons on the screen of some divinity's PlayStation. Hay keeps up with the madcap antics, the zany dialog and the wonderful repartee rep·ar·tee  
n.
1. A swift, witty reply.

2. Conversation marked by the exchange of witty retorts. See Synonyms at wit1.
 and differentiates his characters while still keeping his tongue firmly in his cheek. Some sex and strong language. Francine Levitov, Attorney, New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, NY
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Date:Jan 1, 2006
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