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brmstory's review against another edition
This is my first encounter with Dorsey. Maybe it's because I just had my first encounter with Faulkner, but I couldn't make it 100 pages into this. I know that doesn't give him a chance to even fully set up the plot, but I just couldn't bear to make it that far. It's a slapstick serial killer (part of a saga, judging from the back cover) but doesn't take itself quite seriously enough to make me care. I knew it would be lighthearted, but I didn't realize it was made lighter by tropes and poor writing. Maybe I just don't get the whole "weird Florida" thing and this is just too meta for me. Meh, I'm liberating myself of this book and I'll probably be looking elsewhere for my lighter "pulp fiction".
applescc's review against another edition
3.0
2.5 It was fun, but got a bit tiring after awhile what with all the silly characters and plot jumps. It would've been a 2, but I give it an extra star for being set in places I know well. I recognized all the scenes in LA (where I used to live) and Tampa (where I live now).
rlbasley's review against another edition
4.0
After listening to Atomic Lobster, our introduction to Tim Dorsey and to his interesting character, Serge. I was sent to the library by my daughter (don't worry she's over 18 lol) to try me find as many audiobooks as I could get via interlibrary loan. The librarian told us they would probably trickle in a few at a time but we are now in a Dorsey marathon as we got all of them in (except the first one no one had that one) and this is the book we just finished.
We really liked this book and just like with the last one when it came to the last 2 CDs, we simply had to know how it would end. All activity, chores, whatever was postponed until the end of the book was heard. It takes a special author to get my daughters attention, he's only been the third one to do so. Starting the next book in a few minutes .
By the way....that chicken soup book written by serge?? I would read it! Any chance you could make it happen Mr. Dorsey?
We really liked this book and just like with the last one when it came to the last 2 CDs, we simply had to know how it would end. All activity, chores, whatever was postponed until the end of the book was heard. It takes a special author to get my daughters attention, he's only been the third one to do so. Starting the next book in a few minutes .
By the way....that chicken soup book written by serge?? I would read it! Any chance you could make it happen Mr. Dorsey?
booksmy's review against another edition
2.0
Too crazy back and forth. Would be a good story if it was less frantic.
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