tanuki said:

“Sometimes there's a man, I wouldn't say a hero but a man who is the man for his time, sometimes there's a man, sometimes there's a man... Jeff Lubowski was one and Eustance Conway is another. This guy has a possum cooking on one burner while sewin up a new pair of moccasins out of a road killed buck and a piece of steel heatin on the other to be made made into horse shoes after possum pie supper. He is a bad ass modern day Daniel Boone who can shoot a squirrel in the eye with a hand made bow at 20 paces and hike the whole Appalachian trail in a Bandanna, pickin up chics along the way. He's the fuckin bomb. Oh, and he has some real family issues, like his dad is a dick.Whatever. This book would have rocked but since it was written by a female it had to delve too deeply into the father son relationship and how all his accomplishments were just to prove his worthiness to his asshole dad. Look, dads are assholes, that is their job, every guy who has a dad worth a damn knows dad is a dick, if he wasn't you'd be a bratty little prick like... oh yeah, all those kids who grow up without dads or dads who let them do whatever the hell they want. Dad is a DIck - that is his sacrifice so you do not become one yourself.
So that being said, I still liked the book and she is a good author but I want more detail on how to cook possum stew - maybe even a recipe or two and a bit less on the psycho analysis. He is the Last American Man after all, he needs no excuses.”

posted Thursday, July 3 2008