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A review by dark_reader
Ghost Dick: Private Eye by Peter Derk
funny
5.0
My first book of 2025! This was a welcome stocking stuffer (as in, I ordered it for myself to put in my own stocking. When you're a parent and the main person making Xmas happen it's the kind of thing you have to do).
A laugh out loud (god I hate writing that, it makes it sound stupid, and yeah it is actually stupid, but it's supposed to be and also it's stupid funny, so there,) account of a paranormal investigator's training and typical day-in-the-life. Peter Derk writes the best and funniest pathetic loser characters. I sincerely hope this is not reflective of anything.
I note that the author's name appears nowhere on the book-as-physical-object. Not the spine, not the front cover, not the back cover, not the title page, not the copyright page (there isn't one). Presumably this is so that if someone enters his dwelling, and if he even has physical copies of his own work lying around, in case that person picks up it and scoffs, "Wow, someone actually wrote this?" then he has plausible deniability. Which is probably the correct way to go in this case.
(Seriously, Peter, I love your stuff, thanks for it.)
A laugh out loud (god I hate writing that, it makes it sound stupid, and yeah it is actually stupid, but it's supposed to be and also it's stupid funny, so there,) account of a paranormal investigator's training and typical day-in-the-life. Peter Derk writes the best and funniest pathetic loser characters. I sincerely hope this is not reflective of anything.
I note that the author's name appears nowhere on the book-as-physical-object. Not the spine, not the front cover, not the back cover, not the title page, not the copyright page (there isn't one). Presumably this is so that if someone enters his dwelling, and if he even has physical copies of his own work lying around, in case that person picks up it and scoffs, "Wow, someone actually wrote this?" then he has plausible deniability. Which is probably the correct way to go in this case.
(Seriously, Peter, I love your stuff, thanks for it.)