Word: penguine
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...science-fiction adventure that roars from start to finish with considerable verve. At first glance, there is nothing at all unusual about this novel. The old standards are there: the embattled heroes, shifting alliances, explosive secrets, and a mysterious and nigh-invincible enemy. The book design cleverly apes the Penguin Classics standard, looking for all the world like a standard English Literature text...
...addition, the jacket design is of singularly dubious merit. In an attempt to avoid portraying actual Transformers and earn the wrath of Hasbro’s legal department, _Eugenesis_ instead features a black and white photo of junked automobiles on the cover; part of a faux Penguin Classics design for the entire book (closer inspection reveals the publisher to be “Polyhex Classics,” a Transformers reference, naturally). With these wrappings, the book could easily mingle unnoticed alongside _Middlemarch_ and _The Canterbury Tales_. Whether it deserves such illustrious company is somewhat questionable. Like...
...feel badly for the students who just fall asleep,” Broadfoot says as he reaches to reshelve a book on Penguin biology. “They come here wanting to study but their bodies just fail them...
...first-years searched for parents who had wandered astray and students delighted in the free food, the WHRB penguin danced to the beat of Simon and the Salamanders...
...supporter walked around in a penguin costume as the two sides battled for street-corner superiority...