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Buttarsi (2010)

by Dan Fante(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

8871685385 (ISBN13: 9788871685380)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Marcos Y Marcos

series

Bruno Dante

review 1: this was a fast paced read that really kept me going. i really never wanted to put it down once, but it was easy to read for short amounts of time and pick right back up.this was my first dan fante book and I am led to believe that his other books are similar in style and all are semi-autobiographical. i like that.the story here was good, it was kind of like life, i expected characters to come back into the fold, especially portia, but in life there are characters that are there and important and then just not there anymore. no redemption, stories often times try to wrap up with redemption and this one had a good chance at that with the whole 12 step angle.i didnt really like that angle. i kind of wished that he would just drink himself to death or drive himself stupid... more enough to die. so, i guess the redemption is that he didnt die.
review 2: Bruno Dante is an alcoholic writer with an occasional drug usage problem. To pay his bills, he works as a driver for a limo service, schlepping Los Angeles' elite around the town. He formerly worked in New York City for a boss who is opening a Los Angeles branch of the limo service. One of the stipulations is Dante has to stay clean and sober. This does not happen and he grows dissatisfied with this job, and is usually drinking a few fingers of bourbon along with some Vicodin to get through the day. Periodically through the novel, he has a few opportunities to get out of limo driving and people who want to cut him a break, but he invariably screws his chances of this and falls deeper into his alcohol fueled depression. He tries A.A. and towards the end of the book, it seems to have a positive effect.There really isn't much of a plot to the book; the reader is more or less following Dante through his days of driving and drinking. Fante's depiction of L.A., using it as a background character to the story, the phony jackasses of the movie industry, the seedy underbelly of L.A., as well as some of the ridiculous things one encounters as a limo driver are intriguing. Prepare for coarse language and raw descriptions of sex and drug usage.I was originally planning to rate this three stars because while I didn't really connect with the main character, Fante's realistic depictions of Los Angeles effectively draws the reader into the story. less

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