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The Book: Postcards from a Dead Girl, by Kirk Farber

The Story: So, Sid is crazy.  He talks to his mom’s ghost in a bottle of wine.  He digs a mud bath in his back yard.  He’s obsessed with automatic car washes.  He thinks he has a dozen different diseases.  Also, he’s getting postcards from his dead girlfriend from the European vacation that they were supposed to take.

Unlike a lot of crazy people, he realizes that he’s getting crazier and crazier.  He tries to do some stuff to ease the crazy.  He tracks the postcards back through the postal system.  He takes a trip to Europe to try to find his dead girlfriend.  He talks to a neighborhood kid. You know, normal ease-the-crazy stuff.

He also meets a girl.  A living girl.  What better way to get over your dead girlfriend than by getting a living girl friend, right? Right.

What I Thought: Just a short, quirky little book. I don’t know. I have read enough spiral-into-insanity books to not really feel strongly about them one way or the other. Why do authors love this subject oh, so much?

I feel so neutral about this book that it’s honestly hard to write a review.  I feel like it’s one of those books that was a semi-enjoyable read but that I’ll forget I ever read as soon as I publish this post. It was fine, but just super forgettable.

I think that’s all I’ve got. What a pathetic review.  Sorry.  I just can’t muster up enough excitement or distain to even get into it.

Conclusion: Meh.