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# Tamper Paperback – June 17, 2009

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## Customer Reviews

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    worth every cent
  

*by L***O on Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2015*

TAMPER is a coming-of-age novel which reads like a cross between the Hardy Boys and William S. Burroughs (except nice); the best part is it's based on the writings and ideas of Richard Sharpe Shaver, a brilliant and possibly schizophrenic guy who was probably the best selling sci-fi writer of the late 1940s. The twist was he said all his stories were true, and his wily editor, Raymond Palmer, did a sort of early version of tabloid magazines by saying, "Is it true or not? What do YOU think?" Lots of people agreed, and a lot of regular sci-fi fans though it was all outrageous and raised hell about it till the publishers shut it all down.A very good story. For the nonfiction, go to THE WAR OVER LEMURIA by Richard Toronto.

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    Fortean Melancholia and Paranormal Mourning
  

*by A***W on Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2013*

Bill Ectric's "Tamper" is a relatively short book and an excellent one.  I think Eric D. Lehman's comment on the dust jacket is totally accurate: "For a book described by the author as The Hardy Boys meet William S. Burroughs, `Tamper' is a surprisingly tender book about growing up on the edge of magic."  "Tamper" is like the Hardy Boys in that it is a kind of mystery novel in clear/concise language, and it is like Burroughs in the sense that there is a presiding desire to break free of some kind of invisible system of control.  Yet, the system of control in Ectric's novel is not the oppressive and determinate force of language (as it is in Burroughs); instead, it is memory, nostalgia, and melancholia.  "Tamper" is, in this sense, a coming-of-age novel that is unwilling to ascribe to the rigidity of the coming-of-age narrative.  Whit, the central, character does mourn his lost past but continues to revolt against the loss of wonder, imagination, and the possibility that the strangeness of life is more nuanced than we are often enthusiastic to admit.Ectric gets his title from the infamous "Shaver Mystery"--a kind of minor publishing scandal in the 1940s that played out between science fiction magazine "Amazing Stories" and the American author and artist Richard Sharpe Shaver.  Part of Shaver's fiction (which Shaver claimed to be true) was that the Earth was inhabited by subterranean mutants who would torment the brains of humans using invisible rays.  Shaver called this process "Tamper."  This is the central metaphor of Ectric's book: "something" that is visiting and revisiting Whit's mental experience.  We find that in Ectric's work (as a kind of creative critical reading of Shaver's mental illness that is evident in the Shaver's work) that tamper is less of a paranormal force than it is a psychoanalytic phenomenon.  Tamper, here, seems to me to be more or a metaphor for the uncanny resurfacing of memory and the fear of losing the marvel of childhood.  Tamper is melancholia and nostalgia: "The air vibrated with fractal spirits of children running in all direction on the uneven lawn," Ectric writes, "memories of the past almost overpowered my senses.  I could barely stand it and I wanted a drink.  A strange noise registered in my brain.  Here we go again with the weird buzzing in the walls, I thought.  Tamper.  Or is that a bumblebee I hear, zipping around among the flowers?  I know I hear something" (Ectric 230).One thing that is most striking about Ectric's novel is how it acts as a kind of reminder that so much that is strange, odd, zany, and on the fringe of rational articulation is also what is so emphatic about everyday lived experience.  Just as Whit sits with his origami lotus fortune-teller, manipulating "the four paper diamonds with [his] thumbs and forefingers, open/closed, side-to-side/front-to-back, watching the chapters of [his] life converge and scatter, converge and scatter" (Ectric 240), Ectric's novel looks back-and-forth, side-to-side interrogating memory with a kind of mourning for the imagination where consolation is always just so slightly out of reach.  For all the entertaining paranormal intertextuality and insightful mischievousness, what really lingers after reading "Tamper" is its thoughtfulness and warmheartedness.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    We've All Been Tampered With!
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2020*

It's like one summer from your youth that sticks in your mind. Adventure, Suspense and Humor. A truly great read...

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