Many thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for gifting me a digital ARC of the latest novel by Christopher Buckley - 3 stars!
During the COVID pandemic, a screenwriter is living in a coastal SC town with his second wife, Peaches. He's overweight because he can't stop driving through the fast-food chain, Hippo King. His concierge doctor gives him speed to help with his appetite, although it doesn't work. He's writing a new screenplay about a Nazi plot to kidnap FDR. He becomes obsessed with a local election for coroner and begins imagining both candidates have nefarious activities. Then a psychiatrist thinks he may have dementia. It's all too much for him.
It was all a bit too much for me as well. I really liked some of the humorous/satirical portions but I lost interest in the screenplay he was trying to write and found myself skimming those portions. The humor got overshadowed by the rambling stream of consciousness thoughts.
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