Synopsis
About Imad Rahman
See more books from this AuthorTwo episodes after he arrives in Ohio and gets taken by Eileen to dinner with her sister and a cannibal, our hero is working as a repo man for a video store chain, hunting down an errant Forrest Gump tape with his partner Valentina, who speaks only in movie dialogue.
| Read Full Review of I Dream of MicrowavesRahman's deadpan first collection of eight linked stories gets off to a promisingly weird start when Pakistani-American actor Kareem Abdul-Jabbar receives a letter and a one-way bus ticket from Eileen, an old girlfriend, who announces she's "through with big dicks and henceforth thinking constant...
| Read Full Review of I Dream of MicrowavesWhile there is a hip frankness to Kareem's lines ("I hungered to have her right there, in a gymnastic manner on the convection oven, while the rest of the cast cheered us on"), Rahman includes so many descriptions of the mechanics of drinking and smoking that it often bogs down his narratives.
May 22 2004 | Read Full Review of I Dream of MicrowavesRahman is fabulously clever, and these eight absurd, linked stories suggest that he'd make a most amusing drinking buddy.
Apr 16 2004 | Read Full Review of I Dream of MicrowavesFrequently hilarious, the eight stories in this debut collection track sentimental-yet-macho Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (not the athlete), underemployed thespian and alcoholic, through bit parts as caricatures of "ethnics" (a "Zima Zorro" in a bar, a mole who infiltrates a terrorist group).
May 10 2004 | Read Full Review of I Dream of MicrowavesAn aggregated and normalized score based on 12 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes