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Gül çetin bluetwinss — As with any Tim Dorsey book I read, I devour it as fast as I can, sometimes staying up well past my bedtime and/or sneaking in a few quick pages while I'm watching porn, calibrating the plutonium rod mechanism at the nuclear power plant or showering. The adventures of Serge and Coleman are also the perfect complement to a few pitchers of beer with bong hit chasers. Not that I've done a bong hit in a few decades or attempted to drink a pitcher on my own lately, but I sometimes feel like I'm back in the woozy saddle of high times while reading his novels. The best way for me to describe Serge and Coleman, the dysfunctional OCD/ADD protagonists of Electric Barracuda, Dorsey's 13th installment in the continuing warped Florida adventures of this daft duo, would be to compare them to an Abbot and Costello meets Jake and Elwood Blues amalgamation infused with Hunter S. Thompson gonzo dystopian eclecticism wrapped in a devious Hannibal Lecter taste for the erudite and obscene. It's like skydiving without a parachute, blindfolded and on acid, terror-filled yet exciting, and landing on a massive soft pile of overweight circus clowns dressed in bright garish costumes wearing those crazy two-can holding beer helmets who all cram into a Mini Cooper to race across the sandy palm tree dotted landscape dodging brain-addled geriatric drivers flipping the bird and pissed off Humvee hulking tourists while contemplating Nietzsche and discussing the relative merits of TNT versus C4 while doing shots. It's exhilarating and it's frightening. There's never a dull moment. This book actually had a few more close calls than I'm used to from their other adventures. I kept thinking they were much closer to being caught than I was comfortable with, so I actually felt a bit nervous at times. The run-ins and near misses with their arch nemesis, Agent Mahoney, kept me on the edge of my seat. The totally unexpected revelation about Serge and Mahoney at the end of the book shocked me. I can't wait to see how Dorsey incorporates this into his future books. I didn't give this novel five stars because it just seemed a bit weaker than some of his other books. I can't really pinpoint why I feel this way, but it might have to do with some of the more improbable escapes and near misses of the bumbling entourage chasing Serge and Coleman. I thought the character of Doberman was hilarious. But let's hope the other epic bumblings of the poor character who never gets laid makes a return in the future, who I would compare to Doberman. And, despite the fact that these books are full of comic genius and hilarity, I'm also impressed by Tim Dorsey's intelligence and writing finesse. A discussion of male female relations was so perfect that it should be mandatory reading for every pimply-faced male teenager embarking on the rocky road of dating: "Let's get going," said Serge, heading into the woods. "That was a lucky clean break, no schmaltzy good-byes." "Didn't she tell you not to leave?" [Coleman asked] "Women always say that." Serge pushed through the branches. "But they actually WANT you to leave. They love that in a man." Coleman stepped over a log. "I thought they hated it." "They say they hate it, but inside they secretly want a rogue." "Are you a rogue?" "No, but I play one in books." Serge hacked through more branches. "You show me a guy who does everything a woman wants, and I'll show you the same guy six months later, standing on the sidewalk, wondering why some asshole's toothbrush is in her bathroom where his used to be." And although I've never taken acid (LSD-25) before, although many of my close friends have described their experiences to me in vivid detail, Coleman's description of bad acid versus good acid, that begins chapter six, is priceless: "Good acid's totally different. Took some killer windowpane last year, and first got pissed because it wasn't working and I thought I'd been ripped off, and I'm playing with my zipper, up and down and up and down, hearing sounds of individual prongs locking and unlocking in musical scales like a xylophone, and the mechanism starts blowing my mind and I think: Hey, a lot of planning went into this motherfucker. So I took off my pants to get a closer look, zipping up and down in front of my face. Even more impressive! LSD's like that, always giving you a new perspective, especially when the pants are over your head, and you're looking OUT through the zipper: up, down, up, down, each time giving me a peek through the crotch to the tune of "Jungle Boogie." And you know how sometimes you just get this paranoid feeling on excellent drugs that someone's watching you? It was like that this time, except multiplied by a hundred, probably because I was in a restaurant. Suddenly all these people began screaming, and I thought maybe some customer had gone berserk, and I crawled under the table. Then suddenly the table went straight up in the air! I'm thinking, holy fuck, what kind [of] crazy McDonald's is this? Turns out some employees had lifted the table and grabbed me and then I was on the sidewalk in my underwear and some pants hit me in the face, and I went back to the motel and kept working the zipper, wondering about the person who invented it, and I finally nod to myself: Yeah, now this guy really had his shit wired tight--he could see the big picture. And I hid under the bed and played with the zipper for the next six hours until the trip wore off. Now, THAT'S good acid." It's boyish, it's irreverent, it's entertaining and it's meant to be nothing more. But in the hands of this gifted writer who has created memorable and well developed characters, it's just what Tim Dorsey's many fans expect from these humorous books. Thank you, sir. May I have another?

Iana Zyrianova iana_zyrianova — fun/quick read. i picked this book up in the airport. i had finished Kafka on the Shore a lot sooner that i thought i would and was stranded without a book. this book was one of the few appealing ones in the meager selection of the airport bookstore. if you're into stories about trials, murder mystery, etc. this one was pretty good. nothing amazing, but a very decent and easy read.

Tiago Fernandes tiagomsf28f69d — I liked this book a lot. Reading it right before having a baby is an interesting situation because there is a lot of talk about relationships between family and such.