A review by brmstory
The Big Bamboo by Tim Dorsey

Did not finish book.

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".