Review: Jimmy Pudge shines with Bad Billy
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 11, 2012
The product of consensual incest, Bad Billy is a messed up ball of weirdness.  Sharp little teeth, evil ways. His family, as screwed up as they are, are horrified by this bouncing baby psychopath. When he eats the family cat, they have had enough and confine him to the basement.  He never grows much, but he does get fat. And he gets meaner. Or is he mean? I don't know for sure if Billy is really bad or if he's sort of on a search-and-destroy auto pilot. Regardless, he is a killing machine.As only Jimmy Pudge can, he spins Billy through some mighty tempting killing grounds, giving him room to express himself. But there are badder things in this world than old Bad Billy, and things get pretty wild when . . . well, that's enough of that. I don't want to ruin the story for you. Suffice to say, nobody comes out of an encounter with Bad Billy unscathed. Not even his mama, the woman who hid him in the basement all those years.Jimmy Pudge creates worlds where there's always a convenient freak show nearby when you want one, where everybody is just a side-step away from a room in the loony bin. And Pudge will keep you on your toes. This isn't a rambling tale of violence and redneck incest. It's a morality tale of sorts. Think about "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." Billy didn't get that way all by himself. Others messed up mightily. And Billy ends up as much a victim as a predator. He doesn't get to have a normal life, get to feel love.  But what if he did get out of that cellar, move around freely? Well, that's not good either.  So his Mama had made a very bad choice but at least she didn't make another bad choice and set Billy free on the world. Not much to recommend her as a mother, but when your child is Bad Billy, and your brother, the father of the child, dies and leaves you alone to raise this little monster, you gotta make some hard choices. Kind of like real life, though I hope none of you have incestuous children hanging around your basement.Buy this book!  I read it in one sitting, laughed my ass off, nearly cried a couple times, and just enjoyed the heck out of it! Another good one from Jimmy Pudge.