Saturday, October 17, 2015

He's still kicking

Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing

Patrick F. McManus

From the title, I thought this was going to be some kind of farewell book from the author.  But it doesn't appear to be, so I'm happy.  McManus just gets funnier with age.  I don't care how many of the stories are real or how many are made up, I just trust and believe them all.

If you're going to read just one, read Cereal Crime. It starts with his best friend Eddie getting a Private Detective kit from a cereal box-top giveaway, then pining away because there weren't any crimes to solve in their little backwoods town.  But Rancid Crabtree tells him of one--

And I've told too much.  Enjoy!

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