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A review by maleficentknits
The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney
4.0
As a little girl I adored the film "7 Faces of Dr. Lao" which starred Tony Randall and Barbara Eden for its weird and strange makeup so had to snag this book up at the Friends of Seattle Library's big book sale earlier this month. Of course the movie was different and a bit more tame than the book but so was the ways of Hollywood in the mid-sixties.
A strange and gangling trio of vehicles come into a sleepy little Arizona town led by an ancient Chinese man proclaiming to be a circus of unusual and amazing acts and sideshows to delight the senses. It was right in some ways. The weird and creepy astounds but delight might be a little off the mark. I would have been enthralled if I attended Dr. Lao's extravaganza.
There is an additional list of characters with descriptions, some off the mark and funny, at the end of the novel. I wondered if Charles G. Finney had come up with this as an outline before writing his story.
A strange and gangling trio of vehicles come into a sleepy little Arizona town led by an ancient Chinese man proclaiming to be a circus of unusual and amazing acts and sideshows to delight the senses. It was right in some ways. The weird and creepy astounds but delight might be a little off the mark. I would have been enthralled if I attended Dr. Lao's extravaganza.
There is an additional list of characters with descriptions, some off the mark and funny, at the end of the novel. I wondered if Charles G. Finney had come up with this as an outline before writing his story.