My new favorite author - Greg Crites
I drive around for work every day. Minimum of four hours a day in a vehicle, not counting the commute. My need for aural stimulation is high, and there’s not much to be found on commercial radio except for one or two NPR programs. Thus, my great delight with podcasts. Each day I consume tech news, comedy and episodes of audio novels, preferably read by the author. Podiobooks has been a great source for novels, and I regularly search for updates from my favorite authors.
During my most recent search through Podiobooks I ran across some material from Greg Crites. His novel ‘Crusade’ was described thusly:
“A drug-fueled crusade by two deranged journalists assigned to look into the morass of organized religion. Cornholery, snake handlers, faith healers, serial killers, sarcasm, blasphemy-good, clean, American fun.”
And fun it is! I listened to a couple of chapters and then decided to save it for an upcoming trip to San Antonio. The book lasted all the way there and back! The characters are larger than life, and that is essential for the level of comedy and mayhem they perpetrate. But Crites keeps his novels lean. The descriptive prose is kept to a minimum, which is good because that’s the kind of stuff I tend to skim past when reading. This book is about 75% dialogue, 24% narrative and 1% descriptive text. Actually it might be more dialogue than that, but I’m not going to crunch the numbers at that level. The dialogue is where the comedy shines.
Others have compared his writing to Hunter S. Thompson. I would add a splash of Elmore Leonard to that as well.
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