when i first finished rumo i felt rather ambivalent about it, but now that a fortnight has gone by i do have a strange desire to revisit zamonia and the netherworld. i think that moers overcomes the fact that he's not the best writer by having an overwhelming enthusiasm for his characters and his world, and maybe that's half the battle won in fantasy writing. i have ordered his first book (13.5 lives of captain bluebear) from borders and already i am impatient for it to arrive. six weeks.