Tex and Molly in the Afterlife

A lovely lovely book. Richard Grant has upped the ante on Peter S. Beagle's talking raven and dead folk from "A Fine and Private Place" like a writer on a dare and morphed and mutated and created a book so original and wild and funny that it bears re-reading and re-reading. This book impressed the hell out of me. And besides, Tex and Molly listen to some of my fave 60s tunes.

This is a great book if you're looking for something out of the ordinary. It's a great story about some nature lovers and friends fighting to save their local forest, but it has many interesting twists. Great pagan-celebrating, tree-hugging, funny, full of surprises, and afterlife-stuff read.

Tex & Molly is simply one of the best books I've read in ages. My boredom with what usually passes for fiction crumbled before the majesty of Richard Grant's zany genius. I am all admiration for how he can draw characters so well, sharply observing their foibles, and yet still loving them all so tenderly. Dickens also was such a writer.

This book made me laugh so hard that I fell off my chair in a waiting room and recieved accusing glances from suspicious neighbors (nothing unusual really) I am looking forward with great anticipation to his next novel!

Richard Grant has written a NewAge tome, a book sure to please any fan of off-track pagan practices as well as those just wishing to challenge the status quo. We enter Tex and Molly's life as 'aging hippies' in Maine, and are soon drawn into their off-beat lifestyle. Or more to the point their after-lifestyle. For Tex and Molly fall into the Otherworld after toking their last joint on a beautiful full moon night. Their adventures have only just begun. The author weaves his eco-sensitive story with care and detail, taking threads from many myths, and somehow making it all work. The characters are all sympathetically drawn and believable, even as the story itself requires suspension of disbelief. This is a book to read for the enjoyment of the story-telling, as his clever style marries art and science. His witty 'After-life Factoids' are sprinkled throughout. A summary of the story would be an over-simplification, but follows the attempts of a diverse group of anti-establishment types (including witches, heavy-metal computer nerds, a gypsy and an elf, to name a few) to interfere with the goals of Corporate America. Unfortunately the book is far too complex to be explained briefly. Those of us who have not bought in to the American dream will happily relate to one of more of his characters, and wish for our own private mystical revelations, much as Tex and Molly received. Did I mention the driads?