Doreen's 24 Hr Eat Gas Now Cafe
Editorial Reviews
From the Publisher
Doreen's 24 Hr Eat Gas Now Caf is one of those reader-friendly books written to be consumed in small portions--short, funny stories that follow the escapades of a colorful cast of characters you'll feel you've known in your own life. The problem with that design is that once you pick it up, you will find it hard to put it down, so instead of serving its humor in small bites, you'll probably end up gobbling it all down in one setting. Which is fine. It's one funny book. If you've ever hung around a local coffee haunt, you'll identify with the likes of Delbert P. Axelrod, "Wrong" Willie, Doc, the ever splendid Trixie, and of course Doreen, the main characters who populate Reavis' thinly disguised fictional diner.
From the Author
Doreen's 24 HR Eat Gas Now Caf is an oddball look at the unusual interaction between the members of The Hunting Club, a strange collection of outdoorsmen, and the patrons of Doreen's Caf. This strange journey into the virtually unexplored interaction of hunters and non-hunters sets the scene for fun and education.
I've been an outdoorsman all my life. In the 1950s I can remember the Old Man taking me down to the Red River in Lamar County, Texas, where I was given a freshly cut cane pole and told to "watch the bobber." I've been watching it ever since. Once it even bobbed. I ran through the woods and fields of Lamar County, getting a sunburn on my ears which stuck out under a "Boys Regular" haircut. In the early sixties, I was a pre-teen and could have cared less about competitive sports. The outdoors was It for me. From there we hunted squirrels in the cold mornings of autumn, shot quail and dove in season, and caught catfish in the dreadfully oppressive heat of the Texas summers. It was a boyhood which youngsters today will never know. Pity. I've always had a warped sense of humor anyway, and as part of my own personal therapy, I began writing a "funny" newspaper column for The Paris News in 1988. That's what they called itfunny. I prefer "humor," because you can't be funny all the time. Some people say I only manage humor about once a month, but I respond by saying they can't all be gems. In the meantime I've always wanted to write a book, and so I wrote three of them. Then I looked around and wondered what to do with the stupid manuscripts. Even I get tired of reading my own stuff, and it looks bad to hang around shopping malls, bathrooms and street corners begging people to read excerpts from a worn, dog-eared manuscript, so I asked Larry Bozka, editor of Texas Fish and Game Magazine what he thought about publishing a collection of my columns. Since I am currently the Humor Editor---see how much better that sounds than Funny Editor---Bozka temporarily lost his mind and agreed to publish those columns which originated in Doreen's Caf. There is no "how to" information in these pages, unless you want to know how to have a good time. My real motivation behind the book was to touch hands and hearts with the outdoorsmen across this great nation, and to also bring those same hands and hearts in contact with those who don't share our preferred pastime. Surprisingly, over eighty percent of the correspondence with my readers comes from the ladies, who have been left behind by husbands and boyfriends as they head for the field. The ladies are, too, a part of the outdoors and enjoy those endeavors as much as the men. In addition, we can all have fun looking at the foolish side of our own society. I try not to take too much of life very seriously, and you have to be pretty sour not to enjoy at least one or two components of these stories. Strangely, the characters are real, although some of Hunter Thompson's Gonzo style of writing has probably reared its strange and loathsome head beside what I've learned from Pat McManus, the late Gene Hill and Dave Barry. It's an evil mix. It is my sincere belief that anyone, male or female, old or young, outdoorsman or what I fondly call Bunnyhuggers, will find truth and humor in these pages. Sometimes I might touch a personal nerve, but it's all in fun, because I laugh at the guys and myself as much as I laugh at this strange and bizarre world in which we live. I hope you enjoy these stories and take them for what they arefun, because I'm coming back with another volume soon called Outside Doreen's. By the way, they're supposed to be funnuhhumorous, too.--Reavis Z. Wortham
Doreen's 24 Hr Eat Gas Now Cafe
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