have I said that I love the Brandywine Public library? Well I do. If it only had porn I could replace it with the internet…
Um wow, I had no idea what to expect. It was in the “new” section and I borrowed the book based on its’ cover and its’ title. It totally threw me for a loop. The main character Curly is a 6’2″ bald headed degenerate coffee shop guitarist that has an octopus tattooed on his head. It starts out with him and his junky buddy Ivy doing a tarball of heroin. And that is just the beginning. It took me about 5 hours to read. I couldn’t put the darn book down once I got started. It was an eclectic book that took place in and around the Oakland, Ca. area.
I would liken this book to one of those movies you start to watch on a Saturday afternoon and can’t stop watching. It wasn’t great, but it twisted and turned more wildly than I thought it would have based on the opening 10 pages describing a couple of junkies doing heroin. After that it got even better.
