Not The Story I Would Have Written, Darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                     First, let me clear up the confusion.  You are correct, if you are thinking the title character is who he is. That is right; it is Godzilla, better known now, by his Japanese name, Gojira. But, because novelist Mark Jacobson was working with a TOHO franchise, that "a" had to become an "o," so here, now he is known as Gojiro.

                                       He still loves children, his fans and the world.  But he is a lonely complicated soul.  He is sixty six million years old, and, for much of that time, he was a small lizard.  But the whole atomic thing in the Forties and Fifties caused him to mutate into the giant creature known and loved today.  And he is invincible. So, he will be emissary of this world, long after those reading this, have left it.

                                         Gojiro has his humorous moments.  He states that the burgers at Hollywood's famed Brown Derby restaurant, are not what they are cracked up to be, and he should know.  He  admits all of his movies were made solely for money, and never are actual ones mentioned, because of Jacobson and the TOHO copyright.  The movies mentioned have the ring of others, but are not actual titles.

                                           It is when the novel gets philosophic and existential that it becomes weighted down. Not that Gojira--I will call him by his real name here--is not moving and intelligent; he certainly is. But a breezy, Jacqueline Susann Hollywood tale, as only Gojira could tell it, was more what I wanted, and would have added more fun to the ponderousness Jacobson often overindulges in.

                                            He really should have let Gojira tell his own story.  Some celebrities do need ghost writers.

                                             Gojira does not. Left to his own devices, he could be on a par with Brooke Hayward, and Susan Strasberg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!