Review: Gross, sick, perverse, vile, and a bunch of other fun stuff!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 25, 2012
As usual let me start off by saying I'm not a shill. I didn't get this for free or agree to write a review in exchange for a bag of chronic or anything like that. I don't know the inmate... I mean the gentleman that wrote this collection of short stories.This collection isn't for everyone. Recommendation number one is that you grab your kid's Kindle and check to see if any of Jimmy's titles are on it. If they are, read them, decide for yourself if they're appropriate for your kids and then delete them anyway just to let the little brats know you're on to them. It'll keep 'em honest that way.These stories are a super example of what a lead paint chip, pork rind, and D-Con packet diet can do to the human mind. If the author is not the byproduct of such a diet, he fakes it better than a $5k an hour "escort companion."I live in the rural South and since reading this set I've seen at least 2 dozen dudes that I almost walked up to and said, "You're Jimmy Pudge for real, right?"All joking aside - I'm a humorist myself and I know writing this stuff isn't as easy as it looks. Amidst the sophomoric grossout segments that are gross enough to gag a maggot are more than a few brilliant one-liners and wordplay jokes. There were only a few places where I was able to come up with a way to make one of the "jokes" in the stories better than the way they were presented in the book. Believe it or not, that's a big compliment. I read chunks of each story to my wife who normally hates this kind of stuff and she not only laughed out loud, after she did the technicolor yawn in the porcelin pony she came back and started reading over my shoulder along with me. She even brought me a bucket of my own so I wouldn't have to keep getting up as often. If that ain't love I don't know what is.This is my first experience reading from the Pudge Pile, but it won't be my last. I'm a fairly well educated guy but sometimes a man just gets the urge to read a story about a crack-addicted-vampire-hooker that tends to get aggressive in the wrong ways when the munchies hit. When I start Jonesin' for something like that I'm mighty glad I have a couple more of ol' Jimmy's books on my Kindle to scratch the itch.Oh, and Jimmy? If they ever let you read these reviews while your in the joint and you're interested in collaborating on a story or two, gimme a holla and I'll tell you some stories about how we kick it in the trailer parks of North Cackalacky. I'm outta work right now since my temp job shut down so I can use the coin. I was workin' on a crew this summer putting astroturf down on all the county high school football fields. The players hate it, but it was the only way to keep the cheerleaders from grazing at halftime.