“I wished I had a video camera to film our little group of social rejects. I thought Randall and I had had reached the pinnacle of weirdness in traveling companions with the trio of Harley, Moon Love and Long Dog. But I was wrong. Anyone who looked like Ms. Shadow, lived out of a 1958 Edsel parked in a rest area, fell in love at first sight with a snaggle toothed, scraggly looking escaped convict and agreed to climb onboard a big rig with a bunch of strangers and a disease ridden dog definitely won the contest.”
Two weary engineers Mark and his childhood friend Randall are heading home for Mark’s wedding. After stopping for a bite to eat in a ‘greasy spoon’ the pair come in contact with an assortment of some of the funniest, seediest characters ever penned. Harley a camel smoking ex-marine is determined to get even with someone, and he isn’t real choosy just who that might be. Before long the RV Mar and Randall are piloting east is filling up. Mangy Long Dog is added to the assortment of scrufty humans before the unlikely group meet up with a woman with the CB handle ‘Little B.’
Dr. Pollen does his best to explain the incredible transformation of a well known academic into ex-con Harley.
This is not the first of Rolland Love’s books that I have reviewed. Each one I declare to be my favorite as I am reading and this was no exception. In his offering Toe Tags & TNT Writer Rolland Love has produced another in his Mark Twain type fun romps filled with captivating players and marvelous detail. The scene is set from the outset when we meet the weary, bickering twosome of old friends and is carried on through out the narrative to the end.
From the argumentative childhood buddies to the psoriatic obsessed Harley each of Love’s characters are caricatures of what we all suspect may be out there just beyond the bend. The various folks introduced to the reader are funny to the max and nicely fleshed out. Hands eye for peculiarity is put to good use as he describes the settings, people and minute details filling his entertaining work.
The quote at the beginning of the review offers a taste of writer Love’s unique talent.
Entertaining read as perfect for a lazy summer afternoon spent in the porch swing as bees are buzzing nearby, as it is for a cold winter’s evening when the reader sits wrapped in a quilt with book in hand before a roaring fireplace.
Reviewed by: molly martin http://www.angelfire.com/ok4/mollymartin
BUT, Molly makes it sound interesting. Great job!
Great review for what sounds to be an
outstanding book!