I read some reviews of this book, and I want to say wow, this is definitely a love it, or hate it book. So if you are easily offended DO NOT READ THIS BOOK, you will not like it, the main character is a bitch. I can see both sides of the fence, I see where people would be offended. The main character crosses society’s politically correct white line, but I can also see why.Like I said before Paul is a bitch; he is also at times shallow, proud, catty, vain, and very socially awkward. The author backs this up with the fact that before Sandy shook up his life, Paul was pretty much a shut in. Yes, he would go to Helena’s shows, but he stayed up in the balcony where it was safe from other’s judgment. With work, and family being his only other social outlets you can paint a pretty good picture on where he learned his social q’s, the oh so politically correct world of television. I hope you hear the sarcasm there, cause that last part was dripping with it.Paul works with his best friend, Sandy sits in the next cubicle from him so work is a safe place. When you have a best friend, especially a LONG time best friend, you almost have your own language; I speak from experience here. It’s safe to say if somebody ever heard some of my best friend, and my conversations we would be tarred and feathered, because they would miss the underlying sarcasm, and unsaid words. I mean it, especially if my husband is involved to fan the flames. Also I want to add this is all Paul’s inner dialog, and just like my friend said, we are damned lucky people can’t read our thoughts, damned lucky.So in saying this, did I like it when he placed a label on the lady at the hospice, no, but it would be something that somebody that learned social interaction from television and movies would do.Now I want to point out how the blurb about the book they say that Vince is dumber than a box of rocks, well I disagree. So what, Vince isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, but he isn’t stupid, what Vince is lacking is that quickness, the metal capacity to have just the right words ready for the perfect comeback, the sharpness of mind that catches every joke, trick question, or unspoken clue. Vince is a happy go lucky human Golden Retriever of a guy, no rocket scientist, but aware of people using him for his looks, and smart enough to know that, that isn’t what he wants anymore.Later in the book you find out that Vince died as a child, he drowned, and that can have lasting effects to the brain. You also learn that Vince compartmentalizes, this also could be effect of brain damage from drowning, or could just be how he survived growing up with an asshat for a father.So yes I enjoyed this book, very much, I found the humor just the right mix of bitchy, and crass. P.S. Sex Face >.
