Flat Crazy is another one of them “Blanco County” mysteries. I was introduced to the author at another guy’s book signing, and I was impressed with the first novel, but I never really figured the material would translate well outside of Texas. However, and I’m not very far into the novel, any body who can combine “Asian-Midget-Porn” and Chupacabra, in a single tale, and I don’t even have a clue how this is going to end up, but just those two elements, plus a healthy dose of murder, mayhem, and cedar-choppers, it can’t be all bad.
Bone Dry and Buck Fever are the earlier works I’ve read. To me, seemed like those were striving too hard to tread a line between people like Dave Barry, Carl Hiaasen, and Tim Dorsey, sort of a Hill Country version of those Florida wacko-creime-thriller authors.
Flat Crazy is different, at least, to me it is. THe pacing is better. The crafting of the novel is better. It’s just a thriller with death, destruction and mayhem, and the usual jabs at Austin, not that it matters, and the cast of characters has become more thoroughly entertaining.
Tight pacing. Excellent plot, but at the halfway point, I’m not sure it can be neatly wrapped up.
New! Experimental!
Regular astrofish.net subscribers just got a new feature: Video-pod-cast.
Here’s what’s curious, it’s actually a smaller file than the mp3 weekly audio file.
And more than anything, it comes from just jacking around on a Friday evening, trying to wear myself out so I can go to bed early so I can get up early. Only took a couple of hours and minor rearranging of camera and desk, and wires. some day, I hope, I’ll feature the cat, too.
Reminds me of another feature, I’d like to think I pioneered, back in the days of dial-up access speeds: live web cam during the then weekly online chat sessions, sponsored by my former syndicate. Yeppers, I was a first.
Fishing on Saturday:
Up and out early. Off to the lake.
