"The Collector Collector" is a veritable, dark comic medley about life, love, success, failure, etc... Fischer, like Tom Robbins (and a semi-obscure writer named J. Joyce) before him, uses unbridled structural imagination and hybridization as the central vehicles to express his protagonist's vaguely normal existence in a sea of eccentricity. This book deserves considerable attention, if nothing else, for the author's choice of narrator; the wise and discerning urn. For all it's whimsical satire, this novel presents deep sobering insight into contemporary society.

"The Collector Collector" is a veritable, dark comic medley about life, love, success, failure, etc... Fischer, like Tom Robbins{Still Life With Woodpecker, et al}, (and a semi obscure writer named J. Joyce) before him, uses unbridled imagination and hybridization as central vehicles to express his protagonist's vaguely normal existence in a sea of eccentricity.

This book deserves considerable attention, if nothing else, for the author's choice of narrator, the wise and knowing urn. For all it's whimsical satire, this novel presents deep sobering thoughts into contemporary society.

This is another book review from Wolfie and Kansas, the boonie dogs from Toto, Guam. The narrator of Tibor Fischer's novel "The Collector Collector" is a 5,000-year old ceramic bowl. (Since the bowl never divulges its name, we'll refer to it below as Mr. Bowl.) Mr. Bowl relates both its present-day adventures with Rosa, a London art appraiser, and numerous tales about other humans it has known in the past several millenia.

This book is very clever, and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny. The modern human characters and the situations they get themselves into are consistently amusing. Some of Mr. Bowl's flashbacks are fascinating. There is only one thing missing here. In 5,000 years of existence, Mr. Bowl apparently never served as a dog food bowl. At least he does not recount any tales of memorable canines. Don't Mr. Bowl and Mr. Fischer know that the two most famous bowls or bowl-like objects in the history of literature are a Grecian urn--and Snoopy's supper dish