Clownfish Blues

Clownfish Blues – Tim Dorsey

Cover image. The “It looks like a drug deal,” hand-off to get the copy of that book.

Knowing I would have access to an ARC, uncorrected galley/proof, I didn't bother, but the author had a link to the first chapter, for free, someplace on his site.

Clownfish Blues

It was an extremely complicated legal matter that would take an entire book to explain, but one worth buying and reading. Page 33, cf., Shark Skin Suite.

Love the internal wink and tap on the side of the nose.

I would suppose that it is a difficult propositions to make light of mental illness, or to turn a kind of a madman into a sympathetic character, but this is fiction, at least, I think it’s fiction, and that part it delivers well.

The difference, to quote one author, between fiction and real life is that fiction has to make sense.

Plus pirates — it is set with a Florida background — there will always be pirates. Argh.

The grammar — I finally realized what was happening, my cult-like devotion to this series of books — it’s the grammar. There is an excited, almost like a stream consciousness style, with some hanging modifiers and dangling bits that don’t quite fit conventional grammar rules, but work. It works really well. It is prose delivered, at times in the breathless fashion of a crazy person not taking any time to pause during the delivery.

I sense a pattern here.

Good to read, and fun stuff.

Climatic Mexican Standoff, always finish strong.

With a classic, three-pointed plot, it is one of the better ones. I admire the writing. Great stuff.

Gets a strong buy now recommendation from me.

If I wasn’t working in Austin, I’d be standing in line to get a copy at a bookstore. Good thing Amazon delivers.

Clownfish Blues – Tim Dorsey

Previously

Here, here, here, and here.

I’m sure there’s more.

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