Review: This is a good read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2011
This is slacker noir told by Buddy, a full-time barfly whose policy is to turn any buck without doing it nine-to-five. As Beavis is joined to Butthead, Buddy is joined to the "big, ugly" Sal, a bottom-feeding amateur PI with a crumbling 1976 Buick Century. You know right away the pleasure of this book is Buddy's voice and hanging out with these two and it always stays close to the funny. It's never boring and often it's more bloody than funny but still funny. So there's a lot of funny and a lot of action and a really bad smell from the trunk of the Buick. All this is done with a smart comic edginess and an uncluttered style that flows like a late night movie.