" We listened to this on CD, read by Daniel Pinkwater. I didn't really enjoy his reading, as he often reads too fast and trails off at the ends of sentences. I expected because he was the author, he'd read it with more feeling, but often, it seems like he's hurrying along. He also sounds a bit like he's got a mouth full of marbles. But about the story: Logan really enjoyed the breathless adventure of it all, while I (his mom) enjoyed the details of late 1940's Hollywood. A lot of adventure is crammed in, sometimes seeming a bit over the top, but Pinkwater's imagination is amazing. There are a ghost bellhop, a shaman named Melvin, a car full of alien cops, and many visits to a doughnut shop, not to mention a sacred turtle, a woolly mammoth, and villains named Eucalyptus and Bunyip. It was quite a ride. "
— Logan, 2/6/2014