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Amazing

Revisado: 04-07-22

I'm surprised I wasn't assigned this novella in middle or high school. It's incredible. Emotional, tense, tragic, it's a beautifully written book about often ugly people.

Hector Elizando's performance is perfect. I have always been a fan of his acting work and now am one of his narration work, too!

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Listener Discretion Advised

Revisado: 04-04-22

The characters in this story are vile. One more than the other, but both are despicable. To enjoy this book, you must be able to handle comedy about awful people speaking and behaving terribly in absurd situations. There is offensive dialog about every type of person, a few instances of inadvertent animal cruelty, more than a little literal bathroom humor, and a large dose of political humor that might be too much for some (though keep in mind that this book was published in 2012).

If you can handle all that, this is one funny book. The plot is completely ridiculous. The way the authors turn a phrase creates many comedic surprises. The interplay between the two authors' contributions, at times seeing the same part of the story from two or more perspectives, adds to the humor. This is, of course, enhanced by the tag-team nature of the audio performance.

This book is the cousin of properties such as It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Men Behaving Badly, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. If you enjoy that style of comedy, you will likely get some enjoyment from Lunatics.

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Fun Story, Even Better Performance

Revisado: 03-01-22

This tale of obsessed fandom has a lot of interesting twists and turns and more than a few red herrings. It's alternately enlightening, crass, emotional, and comical. The performance and production of the audiobook adds to the fun. While I usually prefer audiobooks to be a straight reading with no extra production, this was a welcome exception. Having the cast of characters largely portraying fictionalized(?) versions of themselves added to the entertainment as did the subtle, sporadic uses of music and sound effects. I recommend this book to anyone who likes a fun mystery/thriller, but if you're a Star Trek fan, this is a must read/listen.

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3 Star Writing, -1 Star Reading

Revisado: 04-12-21

This book was not for me. Taken individually, some of these articles might have been interesting. Collected like this, though, they're repetitive and boring, the rare chuckles oases of entertainment in a desert of dullness. Also, perhaps some of this material was edgy when the stories were first published, but now they're bland. It's tepidness even appears in the subtitle, "Mildly Perverted." Who wants to waste eight and a half hours on mildness?

Certainly not the author, because his read sounds like he's not even interested in his own work. He takes the pan out of deadpan.

You might consider buying the print book and reading it in small portions over a long time, but I cannot recommend this audio version.

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