Reading Me and Bobby McGee I became relaxed feeling privileged to be brought into the lives of his characters, as Keesey’s smart witted tongue makes light of even the direst of situations. The book is not hard to put down … it’s impossible. This is the type of raw humor embedded in every sentence, a masterpiece of comedic literature. At first I wasn’t able to feel sympathetic to Keesey, as he staggered around New Orleans looking for his car, but after he got kicked in the balls three times in two days one has to feel sorry for the guy. The narration is something of a Guy Noir type of private detective portrayed on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie –Home Companion, mixed of course with 80 proof alcohol and teamed up with a Charlie’s Not-So-Angelic antagonist. Just when you think the book is about smuggling dope across the Mexican border, you get blind-sided with a twist and turn and off it goes in a new direction. His writing is only believed after read, as he takes the reader through thought processes far beyond the boundaries of his plot and characters, and into the comedic reflections of our society, “Mars vs. If my lead paragraph above is different than most reviews, let me simply say Chad Coenson has rubbed off on me. Seriously this book is not recommended reading for recovering alcoholics! The star of the novel is tequila, with the co-star being a beer chaser. Keesey is an ex-CIA trained assassin turned drunk. If this would become a movie, I would envision Chad to cast someone like Uma Thurman as Bobby, the femme fatale as he puts it, with a Mickey Rourke or Bruce Willis (as long as they gave him hair) protagonist, Keesey Chypher. We all know the song, but Chad Coenson created a witty and wild novel involving booze, women, gambling, kidnapping and yes, sex and violence, plus the daily hangover into a fast moving “guy novel.” He used a cool way with words that only the narration of a man’s inner most thoughts would expose. “Out of the box writing” would best be the genre for Chad Coenson’s creative work titled, Me and Bobby McGee. Reviewed by: Gary Sorkin, Pacific Book Review Book Review
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