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Title: The book to read when all you really want is trash....
Review: You're tired. You want something mindless. The world is aggravating and you want an escape. Turning on the TV would just make noise. Reach for Jesus, Elvis, and Coca-Cola (who could resist the title?). Everything about the book is improbable, from the Jewish Texan cowboy private detective living and working in New York, to the ridiculous and repetitive language used (repetitively) to describe ordinary things, to the plot (which makes our hero appear to be an idiot at the same time that he solves the case). The book provides a heavy dose of cynicism about nearly everything it touches, which can be a good thing if you are in one of those moods where a positive and upbeat perspective would be just too annoying. The book is mercifully short, so that nagging feeling that you are TOTALLY WASTING YOUR TIME doesn't last much longer than the (hopefully temporary) bad mood that might have drawn you to it in the first place.
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