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I'm in the only town in the country where I could walk into a cafe wearing a Botch shirt to find that the barista is wearing a Botch shirt. {would never happen in Miami #234}

I'll admit it, I'm addicted to literary fluff. I've read a solid 522 pages of it in the last week or so, starting with
Money Shot, which looks like this:

and The Death and Life of Bobby Z, which looks like this:


The next book I'll read won't be able to be called fluff by anyone, because I gotta break the CYCLE, man. Also, I need to get reading some sci-fi. The other day I was in Barnes & Noble spending money I don't really have when I saw the Military Sci-Fi endcap display they had there. I was riveted. And I felt like I'd been missing out.

Anyway, Money Shot is your basic revenge tale from a lady's point of view. Think Kill Bill, only with (I think) a lot less suffering on the lady's part. The lady in question is mostly-ex-pornstar Angel Dare, who gets pulled into some bullshit involving a briefcase involving a couple of hundred-thousand dollars, sex-slaves, dead friends, rape, and getting left for dead in the trunk of a Honda Civic.

She survives what is done to her (I wouldn't have) and gets back at everyone involved with the help of one of her agency's bodyguards, Lalo Malloy.
Yeah. I didn't love it. It was a fun read, and it had a lot of blood and irate porn stars and semen and the whole mess, but I still didn't love it. I wasn't crazy about the main character, I guess. Whatever.

The Death and Life of Bobby Z was more fun. Career fuck-up (the book reminds us, over and over) Tim Kearney is hired by corrupt cops to take the place of the legendary drug dealer Bobby Z in a trade-off with Mexican drug lords.
This was a blast to read, action packed from start to finish. Too many coincidences, kind of like that movie Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, but still. I bought it all and enjoyed every bit of it. Even if Tim Kearney, who we're supposed to believe is a loser, becomes fucking John Rambo by the end of it. I guess it made for an interesting character arc. Like that bike delivery loser in 28 Days Later I had a blast and I'll be reading more of Don Winslow's work. Also, I'll be watching the movie, which stars that classically trained actor for the times, Paul Walker, as Tim/Bobby Z. brah.

I got nothin else. I'm a big winner. Looking forward to the weekend, and finally seeing The Hulk.

Also, God-damn.