Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League, Et Al

A Compendium of Evils

By: The Reno Kid, E.M. Rauch

Narrated by: Peter Noble

A world-class hero confronts ancient "supernatural" evils in an adventure that spans entire planets and defies everyday notions of reality!

Still mourning the losses of his beloved Penny Priddy and his surrogate father Professor Hikita, Buckaroo Banzai must also contend with the constant threat of attack from his immortal nemesis Hanoi Xan, ruthless leader of the World Crime League. To make matters worse, Planet 10 warrior queen John Emdall has sent her Lectroid legions against Earth with a brutal ultimatum. Or is her true target Buckaroo Banzai? As the apocalyptic threats continue to mount, only Buckaroo and his Hong Kong Cavaliers stand in the way of global destruction.

The long-awaited sequel to The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is finally here after more than thirty-five years! As told by the Reno Kid to Buckaroo Banzai chronicler E. M. Rauch, this tale follows everyone's favorite scientist-surgeon-entertainer-daredevil as he sets off on a brand-new hair-raising adventure!

©2021 Earl M. Rauch (P)2022 Tantor

Why get paid for one word when you can use two?

I was really looking forward to reading this book, and I was eager, because there were a lot more pages in the second book then there were the first. And I don't have as many hours in the day to read, as I once did, so when the audiobook came out, I jumped at it.

Perhaps the choice of narrators had something to do with it. The annunciation was clear, and the pace was slow enough that anybody could listen to it, but it was being read by someone I thought would be more appropriate to a Shakespearean play. It was truly hard to listen to.

I quit one hour in and I'm not seeing how to get a refund.

Endless yammering

I made it past 3 hours into this story and having encountered nothing but back story, contradictory descriptions and endless monologs, I gave up.

Less of a novel and more profanity as performance

I gave up a few hours in. The, "novel", is structured as small vignettes of various villains engaging in what feels like endless streams of profanity. Imagine a cut up novel such as Burrough's naked lunch but with less artistic merit

mean, disgusting garbage

this is the worst thing I've ever listened to. Faces of Death in literature form. I will seek a refund.

worse than you've heard

I actually finished it. I couldn't tell you what it's about. I loved the original novel so much. I couldn't tell which character the narrator was portraying as he could only do 2 or 3 voices. All I know is the author must have been paid by the word. This is a ramblibg, disgusting, horny,confusing elephant sized crap pile of a novel. I could have used this time better, like by getting a colonoscopy or two.