Chamblee54

PG just finished reading Gator A-Go-Go. It is a crime story set in Florida. There are drugs, sex, gangsters, corrupt, incompetent lawmen, and muscle cars. The central figure is Serge Storms, a trouble maker with clever ways to kill people. Someone named Coleman is his sidekick. They drive a ’73 Dodge Challenger, and have an uncertain, though dynamic, source of income.
The story goes around various spring break locations in the Sunshine State. Serge is making a movie about spring break, and does a lot of research. The story never stays in one location for more than a page or two, which is a bit annoying until you get used to it. Just like multi colored posts written in third person. Instead of pictures from chamblee54, GAGG has a cartoon gator peering over the bottom of the page. Alligators don’t play much of a role in this story. The humans have sharper teeth, and duller minds.
Gator A-Go-Go is not great literature. If you are recovering from a twisted knee, and easily amused, it will do. It is cheaper than pain medication. Three reviewers at Amazon gave it one star. Their comments are enlightening.
JUST SAY NO February 11, 2010 Douglas M. Zuccollo “dougiez” (Chicagoland USA)
NO CD…. what’s up with that ???? EASY good-bye Serge ..Good-bye Tim Good-bye Harper Collins and 20 bucks for an audio download …guess my days of donating old CDs to the Veterans Hospital are over … Thanks and Good Luck you greedy PIGS
impossible to read unless you read scripts?
December 26, 2009 willie “roadie” (pineapple park, FL, USA)
i cannot recommend this book as i found it impossible to read for a number of reasons – first, it reads like a TV script converted to a book with the prose infused with stream of consciousness dialect that jumps from thought to scene and back again (there is a lot of conversation, but little in the way of description) – second, only a few paragraphs in the book are longer than one or two sentences – third, disruptive use of onomatopoeia combined with italicizing and exclamation marks… also every chapter is broken up with sometimes bold and sometimes roman sans serif subheads, and use of all caps in the text is liberally used throughout – also, the ‘flip comic book’ animation effect of a gator eating the page numbers did not endear this reader to what is essentially an unreadable book – avoid this stinker
Gater a-go-go December 1, 2009 Isabelle Jolly (El Segundo, CA)
Cute title, huh? Blurb sounds good, too. Said it was a humorous murder mystery. The book opens with some seemingly irrelevant vignettes, and the prologue includes a gruesome murder which occurs after a good dinner. The hostess dons a raincoat, and with guests observing, proceeds to cut off a prisoner’s head with the electric carving knife. You don’t know why or who. Next, four men force their way into a room, gun down 5 students enjoying spring break in Florida, and throw a midget who had been in the bathroom off the balcony on the count of three. Still no explanation. Next, a man who had keyed a car, admittedly very bad behavior, is caught, tied up, and left under a garage door on which razor blades had been glued. The door has been rigged to fall when the sun hits it! The book may have something going for it later, but I couldn’t stomach anymore. I quit reading it at the end of chapter 4. It may get funny later, but much too gruesome for me. I’ve read a lot of murder mysteries, but nothing like this.