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A review by crankylibrarian
Until the Last Dog Dies by Robert Guffey
4.0
Elliot is a not-so-up-and-coming comedian scraping by on his wits in the hellish cacophony of hipster L.A. So far so predictable, except for a terrifying twist: a worldwide virus is destroying the humor center of everyone’s brain. In denial, Elliot sees friends, audiences and even world leaders succumb to drug abuse, irrational rage, and torpor. Battling the virus himself, and feeling his comic sensibility fade like a stand-up comedian in Flowers for Algernon, Elliot wonders: can society survive without a sense of humor?
Guffey (Chameleo: A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security, 2015) keeps things lively with facepaint-addicted clowns, Mormons in psychedelic ties, a mysterious graffiti artist with a perverse world view, and a punk band composed entirely of terminally ill musicians. Foul mouthed and joyously un-p.c., Elliot relishes his dying role as humor merchant to an increasingly humorless world.
Will appeal to fans of Charlie Huston's The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death.
Guffey (Chameleo: A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security, 2015) keeps things lively with facepaint-addicted clowns, Mormons in psychedelic ties, a mysterious graffiti artist with a perverse world view, and a punk band composed entirely of terminally ill musicians. Foul mouthed and joyously un-p.c., Elliot relishes his dying role as humor merchant to an increasingly humorless world.
Will appeal to fans of Charlie Huston's The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death.