Helpful Score: 1
I almost kept this book just for the one-liners on Pages 32.5 through 72. Generally, this is a funny memoir-novel which is easy to read. If I was the editor, I would have sandwiched the couple of uninteresting character studies between the funnier ones and end the book on an upbeat note. Some of the author's writing is too sparse, as if it were a face-to-face conversation. There are mercifully short tips and stories on being a bartender and 10 pages of recipes -- the longest recipe only 4 lines on the page. My real enjoyment came from the better-written chapters devoted to characters that have peopled the author's life in the military, working on the railroad, and while a bartender on the beach in Hawaii.
