The Motel Life, (Paperback)

from michaeldwebb

An endearing book by the singer of the band Richmond Fontaine, it tells the story of two brothers whose luck turns bad. I really enjoyed this book, so it seems wrong to critisise it, but you could tell that it writing wasn't the authors main job - it kind of felt amateurish. It was also very shor...

from jayne_charles

On the one hand this is a book that plods along rather monotonously and which struggled to hold my attention for long sections. It also contained a lot of 'stories within a story' - one of my literary pet hates (alongside descriptions of characters' dreams) - by their very nature they do nothing ...

from arubabookwoman

This book is the story of two brothers living on the fringes of society in Reno, barely scraping by; the kind of people you might briefly wonder how they got where they are if you were to see them on the street. One of the brothers, Jerry-Lee is simple-minded, and Frank had promised his mother th...

from Ireadthereforeiam

This was a good find. Coming to me via the authors other vocation as member and songwriter for the band Richmond Fontaine, I was immediately drawn to the literary side after reading his work described as "gloriously sad". And that it is. Frank has had some bad luck, more than his share really. Wh...

from omphalos02

Dark story of brothers, one of whom is responsible for a hit and run killing of a young boy. Nicely paced, but I was hoping it would go further into situations that where brought up rather peripherally.