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Horse Latitudes Review by Sparrow (Snow Country)
Here is a book that should come with a WARNING on the cover "May be difficult to put down". Reason being that when I sat down to read this novel with a full cup of coffee, 45 minutes passed before I realized I now had a cold cup of coffee . Very well put together , I had to re-read many pages twice because I was reading too fast as I was anxious to find out what happened next . Mr Bufogle has a way with writing that I've never seen or read before , right to the point with no dragged out chapters as many authors do to add more pages .I would love to see a movie on Horse Latitudes to see who would play who , mainly Chester. H L is a book everyone can relate to at one point or another in life. Now the "cons" The cover didn't really fit the book at all , I guess you were trying to prove the old saying "you can't judge a book by its cover". A+ , 5 stars and 2 thumbs up , hope to see more of your work .
Horse Latitudes Review by Plato Zorba (NYC)
Henry Chinaski; Hank Moody; Val Miller -- they've got nuthin' on Chester Sprockett, the protagonist of Q.R. Bufogle's novel, Horse Latitudes.
Bufogle has forged a new style both in prose and storytelling: a fusion of Quentin Tarantino and Chuck Palahniuk sprinkled generously with Hank Bukowski. Some might argue that the book is more a collection of short stories than a novel. Not. Foregoing a linear narrative, the vignettes or "stories" that function as chapters (in much the same way as Hemingway's "In Our Time") tell the story of Chester Sprockett -- an out of work, recently dumped by his fiancee, ex high school football star and would-be novelist -- floundering in the Doldrums.
Veering wildly from present to past and back, Bufogle's scattergun narrative creates a tension and urgency that make this book impossible to put down. Driven by a sardonic wit that's part Vonnegut, part Bukowski, Horse Latitudes is at times wickedly, savagely funny -- as when Bufogle skewers the pretentiousness of both the avant-garde and literati: Chester and his fiancee, Pandora Zombeck, attend the screening of a new wave film where the director's cult-like followers all wear paper bags over their heads; a literary great's final masterpiece turns out to be a series of recipes retyped from a German cookbook. Add a hilarious bit about oral sex in a public restroom; a dream football game between a team of man-eating zombies and deceased literary icons; a bikini clad femme fatale with an overbite; and a visit from the ghost of Chester's father who regularly attends the horse races "up there" with George Washington and Julius Caesar (". . .the man's a degenerate gambler. Used to drop a bundle on those chariot races."), and you've got yourself one incredibly entertaining bit of fiction.
Horse Latitudes Review by M. Cernaro "fogowee" (new york)
I F*****G LOVED IT!!! Read it in one sitting and couldn't put it down. A real page-turner. Not a dull spot in the entire book. Made me laugh out loud. The perfect book for these troubled times!
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Horse Latitudes::Description
Between the end of the Baby Boom and the rise of Gen X, there was another “Lost Generation.” A generation of TV zombies who came to awareness as man walked on the moon, The Beatles disbanded, and the Sixties proved to be the biggest disappointment since Spanish fly. Meet Chester Sprockett, former golden boy high school football star, now facing the prospect of middle-age alone, unemployed and stuck in a quagmire of personal and literary impotence as he pursues his lifelong ambition to write the great American novel. Sex, love, relationships, impending middle-age angst…it’s all here. Horse Latitudes is a darkly humorous, sex-fueled odyssey—one man’s quest for liberation. It’s a tale you’ll never forget.
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