Nitt Witt Hill

Reviews

WHAT THE POLITICAL PARTIES IN NITT WITT HILL ARE SAYING ABOUT SEBASTIAN GIBSON’S HILARIOUSLY FUNNY POLITICAL HUMOR NOVEL

The Nitt Witt Party Journal

"What this country needs is more Nitt Witts like the author of this book."

Nitt Witt Party Chairman

National Clown Party Weekly

"If more Clowns and Turkeys in Congress read this book, maybe they'd be able to accomplish something in Washington."

National Clown Party Chairman

The Turkey Party Tribune

"Only a real Turkey could write a book this funny.  Any Turkeys in Washington who don't buy this book should have their head handed to them."

National Turkey Party Chairman

Mime Party Daily

"Why do Mimes always get stuck in rooms with invisible walls and no way to get out to buy this book?  It's no wonder the country is in such a mess."

Spokesperson for the National Mime Party Chairman

 

"The Satirical Novel of the Year"  The Daily Satire

 

"American politics is dominated by Clowns, Turkeys, and Nitt Witts. With the rhetoric cranking up on both sides, tensions are quickly mounting and coming to a head. The whole country seems to be going crazy and many people believe that there is only one thing which can make things right – every woman in the country must take off her bra. But that’s enough about American politics, I’ve got a book to review.

Let me begin by saying what Nitt Witt Hill is and what it isn’t. It is not a heavyweight intellectual satire with cutting insights into the nature of society or political reality. It is a light-hearted, fun and easy to read novel with a funny line in pretty much every paragraph.

When I say that it’s not intellectual, I don’t mean that it isn’t intelligent. Although the whole story is given to you with a healthy dose of the absurd, you will find many of the big political players and movements of the day satirised in this book, and many readers will find the caricatures uncannily accurate. Also it does an excellent job of showing how ridiculous politics can be – by taking everything to the most extreme degree of ridiculousness – and of trying to inject just a little bit of common sense through its main character, who is often a lone voice of reason in an utterly insane world.

If you follow American politics then Nitt Witt Hill provides some timely light-relief from the serious issues of the day, bursting the bubbles of pomposity, self-importance and self-righteous outrage which so often surround these things. If you aren’t really that bothered about politics, you will keep reading to see whether bras really are to blame for all of America’s ills, and whether the women of America throw off their lacy shackles and free their breasts before the end of the book.

The story itself follows the adventures of an extraordinarily well connected political consultant and his groin sniffing companion (don’t worry – it’s a dog) as he tries to figure out what is wrong with America and what has been driving the country so crazy recently, and begins to discover that if it wasn’t bras, it may very well have been his fault.

Along the way he meets a whole host of characters, from political advisors to senators to bankers, who are disarmingly honest about the role they had to play in landing the country in its current mess. He uncovers conspiracies, accidentally becomes part of them, meets lots of drunken politicians, and generally tries to bring common sense where everything seems to be getting crazier and crazier by the minute.

Despite the constant threat of impending disaster and the collapse of civilisation which runs through the whole story, Nitt Will Hill is really a very positive book. The caricatures it paints, whilst making everyone look equally ridiculous, are never cruel, and its critique of American politics and culture is always given with whimsy and never with vitriol.

Ultimately that is probably the main message which Nitt Witt Hill conveys – that there is too much vitriol in the world already and that we all need to just step back and relax a bit. And with that message Nitt Witt Hill is the perfect antidote to 2012 election fever, and is bound to be the satirical novel of the year."  The Daily Satire

 

"Read this book twice. Once because its funny as all get our and a second time because there is a grain of truth in each chapter. This is politics taken to the absurd level and told from a comedian’s point of view. I’d love to tell you all the funny jokes and bad puns but I just can’t. LOVE how this ends."  

Book Dragon's Lair

 

"This is a refreshingly funny novel that pokes fun on all aspects of our government and our nation’s leaders. No party (or person!) Is safe...The book is hilarious mainly because its premise is true." Five stars. 

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"I am not partial to either side of the political spectrum, but I am knowledgeable enough to know that Sebastian Gibson has written an uproarious satire about today's political parties and their descent into literal and figurative madness. From page ix, my curiosity was peaked - Turkeys, Clowns, Nitt Witts, and... boobs? I hadn't laughed that much at politics since the George W. Bush skits on SNL. I was pleasantly surprised by the book's progression - the characters were hilariously caricatured, the plot was easy to follow, and no sides were taken. Each party was berated equally, without suffering crude or malicious blows to their egos, and the issues - although absurd - served to enlighten me on the strange-but-true inner workings of the American political system. I definitely recommend this book to all readers, teen through adult, as well as all political parties - be them Clowns, Turkeys, or even Nitt Witts!"

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