New 5-Star Review on Goodreads
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"Let me start off with saying, that I honestly don’t like heavy metal and that’s probably what I appreciate the most about Dan Schell’s The Road to Fluffer; you don’t have to be a fan of the genre depicted in the book to be a fan of its overall content. Not to mention, the rocky road upon which the characters travel literally and metaphorically is one that anybody with a dream can relate to.
Darrel Steiner, a middle-aged music journalist for Rock Weekly, is assigned to tour with a local heavy metal band called Numb Skull. Headed by the impulsive Chester Drawers and co-founded with his buddy Anton, Numb Skull initially gives Darrel the impression that they are cookie-musicians and desperate for a break. It’s not their fault though; Darrel is preoccupied with the fact that touring with Numb Skull is probably his last gig in a job that caused him to severely neglect his wife. Without giving too much of the plot away, I will simply say that the story unfolds with Darrel accompanying the band on their tour for the annual Fluffer Music Festival—hitting various bumps along the road.
I personally, found much of The Road to Fluffer’s literary value in its characters and the struggles they undergo. Numb Skulls is not only a band which consists of entirely separate, individual characters but the band itself acts as a single body in the novel.
The nature of Numb Skull’s struggle to make it in a business where their genre is underrepresented and their form under-appreciated is an element of the novel’s storytelling which I relate to on a very personal level but for different reasons.
Ultimately, if you enjoy quality characters, good imagery, and almost frighteningly relatable content, then you will enjoy The Road to Fluffer.
On a side note, I have a love-hate sort of feeling toward Rollingstone magazine, but one thing I have always been curious about is what it’s like to be one of those guys that get to follow around a touring band. Thanks to this particular read I will consider my curiosity satisfied."
"Let me start off with saying, that I honestly don’t like heavy metal and that’s probably what I appreciate the most about Dan Schell’s The Road to Fluffer; you don’t have to be a fan of the genre depicted in the book to be a fan of its overall content. Not to mention, the rocky road upon which the characters travel literally and metaphorically is one that anybody with a dream can relate to.
Darrel Steiner, a middle-aged music journalist for Rock Weekly, is assigned to tour with a local heavy metal band called Numb Skull. Headed by the impulsive Chester Drawers and co-founded with his buddy Anton, Numb Skull initially gives Darrel the impression that they are cookie-musicians and desperate for a break. It’s not their fault though; Darrel is preoccupied with the fact that touring with Numb Skull is probably his last gig in a job that caused him to severely neglect his wife. Without giving too much of the plot away, I will simply say that the story unfolds with Darrel accompanying the band on their tour for the annual Fluffer Music Festival—hitting various bumps along the road.
I personally, found much of The Road to Fluffer’s literary value in its characters and the struggles they undergo. Numb Skulls is not only a band which consists of entirely separate, individual characters but the band itself acts as a single body in the novel.
The nature of Numb Skull’s struggle to make it in a business where their genre is underrepresented and their form under-appreciated is an element of the novel’s storytelling which I relate to on a very personal level but for different reasons.
Ultimately, if you enjoy quality characters, good imagery, and almost frighteningly relatable content, then you will enjoy The Road to Fluffer.
On a side note, I have a love-hate sort of feeling toward Rollingstone magazine, but one thing I have always been curious about is what it’s like to be one of those guys that get to follow around a touring band. Thanks to this particular read I will consider my curiosity satisfied."
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