Fred Golden Years Volume 2 Joe Basara Books
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Fred's Golden Years is a work of fiction in which ex-Marine and toilet-seat maker Freddy Gold retires to Florida and rallies his new trailer-park neighbors into doing great things, beginning with getting the potholes on their street fixed. As Fred goes around knocking on doors, we meet a cross-section of AARP America, and find how sometimes we need a little illusion to get through life.
Fred Golden Years Volume 2 Joe Basara Books
I read the first book and third book in this trilogy and somehow overlooked the second for a long time. Having read it, I liked it a little more than the first and a little less than the third. There are a lot of interesting characters, starting with the eponymous Fred, a former Marine who moves to Cypress Lake, Florida and immediately begins rallying his neighbors to fix the potholes in the road. The neighbors are a motley assortment of characters (in the sense of "what a character!" from an impostor swami to a rabid feminist to a bald artist worried he's regrowing hair to an old-fashioned Beatnik to a man who lives at home and wears a colostomy bag to a tribe of "West Africans" inspired by the Star Trek episode with the aliens who have a face that's black on one side and white on the other. There's also a sixteen-year-old girl referred to as "The Golden Girl" on whom Fred has a creepy crush.The only thing really holding this book back is it's really too short. At less than 200 pages there's more than enough material here for a much longer book that could better explore all the quirks of the characters and how they come together as a neighborhood.
Still it's a very entertaining novel filled with unforgettable characters.
That is all.
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Fred Golden Years Volume 2 Joe Basara Books Reviews
This reads like a bunch of sketches cobbled together, but still has a unique feel of 1980s frozen in time.
ranks the sale of some books according to the telescoping categories of literature & fiction, genre fiction, and satire. (In this system, Vonnegut has the top two sellers.) But , for whatever reasons, fails to further and fine-tune this progression. As a result, a reader cannot follow its sales rankings through these narrowing categories and into the granular classification of pure silliness. Nor, does it allow readers to pursue this three-part chain into such literary niches as slacker humor, unusual neighbors, or healthy illusion. This is unfortunate, since , by tweaking its system, would bring more readers to the estimable FRED'S GOLDEN YEARS, an amusing and diverting novel that is the equivalent of a Judd Apatow movie.
In FGY, the 62 year-old Fred Gold moves to a trailer park in Cypress Lake, Florida, where the streets have potholes and need repair. Fred considers himself a "man of action", "a take-charge guy... not some bump on a log", and "a gallant knight in shining armor, a slayer of dragons and a rescuer of fair damsels in distress." This Fred, who believes he is a leader and hot guy, decides he must rally his new neighbors; together, he is certain, they can fix their streets. The ups-and downs of Fred's mission and the sweetly harmless illusions of Fred and his odd neighbors are the subjects of this funny novel.
In his own mind, Fred is a no-nonsense former marine and drill sergeant. But he is also helpless to the appeal of a manipulative nymphet and has a bad back. Sometimes, this becomes "...locked into a bent-over position, so much so that he was only able to view the world from between his legs... In this anatomical position... stepping backwards meant his upper body was moving forwards..."
Among Fred's many neighbors are Spic Spinana, who miss-associates advertising and products ("It dee-lightful, it dee-lovely, it Dodge," the Mexican sang while dusting away. "No," Willy objected. "Desoto." "But senor, I thought Desoto was the soap which contained one-quarter cleaning cream." "No, Dove had...")
Fred's neighbors also include Mr. Wald, who excels at the upper-crust sport of balding. "Before the action begins, each contestant's head is thoroughly brushed by the judges, removing any lose hair. During the next several hours audience member may place bets on the contestants... A second brushing at the end of the event determines which contestant has lost the most hair, and is thus declared winner. It is a magnificent sport, and requires patience, intensity of observation..."
FRED'S GOLDEN YEARS is Joe Basara's third novel. In his first, Cypress Lake, Basara follows the emotional development of young Owen Cloud, who matures and eventually finds a woman he can love. In his second, Sale Day at C Mart (Cypress Lake), Basara casts a wry but insightful look at big box merchandising. Like its predecessors, FGY is set in Cypress Lake. And it nods to Owen, who makes a cameo appearance. But this time, Basara wants to display his humor, which is usually silly or slapstick and often LOL funny. Judged on this basis, FGY is a five star read and highly recommended.
I read the first book and third book in this trilogy and somehow overlooked the second for a long time. Having read it, I liked it a little more than the first and a little less than the third. There are a lot of interesting characters, starting with the eponymous Fred, a former Marine who moves to Cypress Lake, Florida and immediately begins rallying his neighbors to fix the potholes in the road. The neighbors are a motley assortment of characters (in the sense of "what a character!" from an impostor swami to a rabid feminist to a bald artist worried he's regrowing hair to an old-fashioned Beatnik to a man who lives at home and wears a colostomy bag to a tribe of "West Africans" inspired by the Star Trek episode with the aliens who have a face that's black on one side and white on the other. There's also a sixteen-year-old girl referred to as "The Golden Girl" on whom Fred has a creepy crush.
The only thing really holding this book back is it's really too short. At less than 200 pages there's more than enough material here for a much longer book that could better explore all the quirks of the characters and how they come together as a neighborhood.
Still it's a very entertaining novel filled with unforgettable characters.
That is all.
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