Dane Barbados Jr. reviews: Machinegun Funk
Those of you who can actually read know that Dane Barbados Jr. is a proponent of reading and literature. In his country everyone reads and those who cannot, and are over the age of 6, are laughed at, burned with cigarette butts, and ridiculed into suicide.
For those of you who do read, and instantly raise in the opinion of the storied Dane Barbados jr. by doing so, I give my highest reccomendation to this book "Machinegun Funk."
This is the story of love and revenge. Of brotherhood and betrayal. And of Parliament-Funkadelic.If you are the literate type and a fan of compendius knowledge of P-Funk, as Dane Barbados Jr. is, then you may very well be a personage of royal lineage and worth my much vaunted attentioon.
The story begins on "just another Saturday night" with one of our two narrators and his lovely girlfriend in a bar. By the end of the chapter bullets have been fired, people have been shot, and a fire has been lit...this tells us that we are truly in store for something good.
As mentioned earlier there are two narrators. And in a stroke of writing magic this author has dedided to alternate narrator with chapters. One narrator's scenes are wholly in the past-tense, one's are wholly in the present tense and the two converge in the bloodbath of an ending.
There truly is something for everyone. Semi-obscure music references, women, gunshots, love, tension, fast cars, complex writing, familial themes and the personal favorite of Dane Barbados Jr., lot's of references to the Caliburn of modern weaponry: the CZ 75 Champion:
Something for everyone...except perhaps old women and men with severe testosterone deficiency.
It can be found in the "Fine Literature" link in my side-bar. You may thank me later.
In short: Dane Barbados Jr. approves.
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