A Million Little Pieces of Feces - The Fake Memoir That's So Much More Fun Than James Frey's
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This book may share an alphabetical lineage with the Frey book, but there is no melodramatic redemption here. As one of the characters from the book says, "We're still involved in the commission of the acts that will require redemption - and those stories are always so much more fun." In fact, this tome is much less the Frey end of the literary spectrum and much more the Hunter S. Thompson end of it - from about 35 years ago. Addiction is the depressing, yet voyeuristic, window drawing readers into the former and, in the later, Thompson used reality-altering alchemy without repercussion as his platform for hilarious picaresque adventure, for those who could handle it.
But if you wind up in an asylum, would that be considered an acceptable repercussion?
Python Bonkers is a journalist, a "bottom-feeding Woodward and Bernstein never-bee" who slogs the "preternatural trenches" of the trade magazine world - those unknown but ubiquitous monthly magazines that cater to every industrial and technology and business niche encompassing modern commerce. His niche is a business magazine for tractor stores called American Tractor Times, a trade publication that brags on its cover that it is, "The finest business publication serving the retail tractor industry."
As the editor of this rag, he is on his last leg with the magazine's powers-that-be. When he goes into a meeting with his publisher, he realizes that he is about to be fired. Quick on his feet, he concocts a tenuous plan to produce an interview and cover story with Willie Nelson because of his Farm Aid connection. Moreover, he guarantees that this will land a huge new advertising account that may very well rescue the tottering magazine.
However, overwhelming his interview appointment is, among others, his girlfriend who runs out of their Los Angeles suburban beach bungalow, an underground railroad for escapees from AA - and other sordid types he describes as his "Lost in Space home zoo project." But his biggest challenge will be surviving a road trip to his celebrity interview at the swanky Ebell Theater (home that night to a red-carpet Hollywood event), because, tagging along will be his millstone of an uninvited friend, Mr. Hurricane. This pith helmet wearing buffalo of a human, shows up after trading down from two porn actresses to a motley street bum, that he further decides to use as his sociological experiment for a day - a hallucinating Henry Higgins run amok. Bonkers new "team" embarks on a gonzo tear through the streets of Los Angeles and across the pop cultural landscape as well. In his satirical quest for truth in journalism, and life, he must navigate through the many odd tiers of social class, in both the Southern California culture and in his Machiavellian office life and its absurd red and blue political divisiveness.
There are not many shades of emotion in this tale, its destination is hilarity, so it presses the pedal to the metal and takes no prisoners. As a peculiar bonus of sorts, by denouement the reader may even question his understanding of reality - in a humorous sort of way. In the eternal quest to construe man's place in the universe, this tome offers a whole new literal meaning to that notion - both spatially speaking and, more particularly, as it relates to his place in time as well. And, not to be forgotten, there is also the playful tryst with the concept of determinism - that is, that certain extrapolations from physics dictate that every action in this world may be predetermined. (Or, as Einstein put it: "God does not play dice with the universe.") You might call it physics, with humor. Roll your own dice, if you're feeling mischievous, and see if this book has the same enchanting distraction on you.
About the Author
Who, indeed, is Python Bonkers? And why would he even admit to experiencing such crazy things as occur in this book? But, alas, he doesn't have to . . . after all, this is a fake memoir. Or is it?
A Million Little Pieces of Feces - The Fake Memoir That's So Much More Fun Than James Frey's
A Million Little Pieces of Feces - The fake memoir that's so much more fun than James Frey's,Python Bonkers,Lulu Press,1411677315,Fiction,Fiction - General,Humorous
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