Justin Partridge’s Reviews > Brothers Keepers > Status Update

“Hey, Charlie, you want a drink?”
“As soon as I finish this one.”

I am gonna try and bring this one home as soonish as I can. It’s far too charming and cleverly written to be putting off any longer. Like I want to adapt it now just to do it, it’s THAT fun. I feel like this might be one I revisit a bunch.

ALSO just found out TO-DAY that one of Westlake’s pen names was RICHARD STARK! The creator of Parker! I had no idea.

I am still marveling at how FUNNY this is.

“I firmly intended to waffle, but I didn’t know how exactly I was going to go about it.”

This continues to be an absolute delight.

This thing is seriously still so funny. The running gag about the 14 volume novel based on the life of Jude The Obscure has gone on for so long it’s stopped being funny and then looped back around to funny. I can’t wait to finish this.

I know people regard Westlake as more of an action writer and that’s certainly how he’s been presented to me but you guys, this book is so goddamn funny.

Are his other books funny? Is this the outlier? Either way, still a blast thus far.