I don't know what is going on with the living under a rock and the movies stuff...I just started reading
http://www.bewrite.net/mm5/merchant....egory_Code=HUM
Allkazzam by Daniel Abelman
This is one weird book. There's a lot of characters with hard-to-pronounce names and some foreign language words here and there...I had to read the opening segment twice. The first time I had no idea what it was, then when the chapter started, I got it and went back to re-read it. The long descriptions are peppered with humor and the story is doled out with a lot of hints...it does jump around quite a bit. This is one that is definitely not a "western" setting (which means I'm missing some of the humor and getting some of it late.)
It's...interesting so far.