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The Terrible Threes

de Ishmael Reed

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With offbeat humor and on-target social criticism, Ishmael Reed presents in "The Terrible Threes" a vision of America in the not-too-distant future, a portrait of a fairy tale gone awry. Opening on Thanksgiving Day in the late 1990s--three years after the former fashion-model president was laughed out of office for admitting that Saint Nicholas knew more about the workings of the executive branch than he did--the White House is implicated in a plot to rid America of its surplus people and the Third World of its nuclear weapons.… (més)
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I read Ishmael Reed's The Terrible Twos some twenty years ago, and this sequel to it picks up with very little pause. So I guess I wasn't an ideal reader in this case. This surreal satire, mostly about US politics and religion in the 1990s, written in 1988, is still hilarious. The ways in which Reed fails as a prognosticator are in some measures consoling, and in others alarming. One that particularly stood out for me was the vilification of Ronald Reagan by the Neo-Christian successors to the Republican Party, on the grounds that he was a liberal who bargained with the Soviets. In our "real" world, of course, Reagan was a "liberal" according to the standards of 21st-century politics, but he is still the beloved saint/mascot of the ever more reactionary Republicans.

The book is an incredibly fast read, full of thinly-disguised parodies of public figures and clever twists on cultural tropes. It is also, like its predecessor, a Christmas story. Reed points out that the name "Dickens" actually comes from "Nicholas" somehow, and he makes a fair try at redeeming an assortment of characters more vile than Ebeneezer Scrooge. But in the end, things still look to be deep in "the Terribles," i.e. the episodes of public shock that commenced with the assassination of President Kennedy. Aye, they are that.
3 vota paradoxosalpha | May 30, 2016 |
Read this right on the heels of The Terrible Twos and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Reed gets even wilder here (e.g. at one point, a conversation between a mosquito, a turtle, and "one of the old ones," Bro Lobster). Much of the satire, though the names have changed, is dead on for our present circumstances. Learn a little about Black Peter and St. Nick. Find out what a "surp" is. Prepare yourself. Read Reed. ( )
  bibleblaster | Jan 23, 2016 |
This is the continuance of the story of The Terrible Twos. It stars Santa Claus, Black Peter, Reverend Clement Jones (a televangelist, faith healer, and White House confidant), and numerous others. It also stars Reed's special brand of voodoo mystery writing. Conspiracy to control the world rests at the center of the book. It mirrors much that has happened in the U.S. Homeless people and lower class people are referred to as "surps" for surplus people. It is population control at its scariest. ( )
  Mdshrk1 | Jul 22, 2008 |
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With offbeat humor and on-target social criticism, Ishmael Reed presents in "The Terrible Threes" a vision of America in the not-too-distant future, a portrait of a fairy tale gone awry. Opening on Thanksgiving Day in the late 1990s--three years after the former fashion-model president was laughed out of office for admitting that Saint Nicholas knew more about the workings of the executive branch than he did--the White House is implicated in a plot to rid America of its surplus people and the Third World of its nuclear weapons.

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