by Joe Meno
When he was a youngster, Billy Argo was the best teenage sleuth Gotham City, New Jersey, had ever seen. That is, until his sister killed herself, sending Billy to the mental institution for a decade. Now that he's out, the boy detective has one last mystery to solve...Back when I was a lad, sometime...
An Absurd 2 Stars Random Ramblings .....^^ That was basically what I was thinking by the end of this book. My mind was blank and I found myself absently blinking at my kindle. I couldn't tell if the book was endearing or it had a stupefying effect. After several minutes of mindless blinking, I ...
What a wonderful surreal sweet book. I smiled often as I was reading this one.
What a wonderful surreal sweet book. I smiled often as I was reading this one.
Occasionally funny, frequently bizarre and mostly melancholy, this is a story about being young and gifted, and then being older and fucked-up, and finally being a little bit older and a little bit less fucked-up. It comes with a decoder wheel and it has a cameo by Frank and Joe 'Hartley'. It is ...
Five stars for a pretty dexterous feat of managing the incongruous tones of the book. It's comically absurd, mostly, but deals with lost, sad, and damaged characters. It isn't far from where you might imagine the heroes from those childhood mysteries landing in adulthood. Meno has predicted a dark p...
This book is a cross between The Venture Brothers and Chuck Palahniuk.Billy Argo was once a Boy Detective, solving every mystery with the help of his little sister Caroline and hapless best friend Fenton. But while he's away at college, Caroline commits suicide. Billy is devastated, attempts suici...
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