Tim Dorsey, The Big Bamboo

The Big Bamboo

Tim Dorsey

Morrow, Apr 2006, $24.95

ISBN: 0060585625

At THE BIG BAMBOO Serge Storms (who everyone agrees is not because he will kill you otherwise) is outraged by how Hollywood (California that is) depicts his beloved Florida in the movies; movies fail to get it right since the classic top ever state seller Deep Throat. His stoned partner Coleman tells him they ought to do something about that, so Serge decides to write a screenplay starring Florida, which means Southern California will have the pleasure of the crazed duo.

In Hollywood, unprincipled agent Tori Gersh demands that the Glick twins, owner of Vistamax Studios, use her client Ally Street in their Werner B. Potemkin blockbuster movie All That Glitters, or she will expose their coke games. Before they can respond, someone hires Serge to abduct Ally, which of course he succeeds in doing, only to learn he is also involved in a homicide as the wannabe actress is found dead, as Serge battles Hollywood vipers while taking the movie industry by storms.

As always when Serge is in town chaos rules, even ironically in a town in which chaos is already the norm. As Serge torpedoes everyone in sight, Tim Dorsey satirizes, using hyperbole; the worst transgressions of Hollywood in the minds of the fundamentally always right. Fans of the series, and anyone who enjoys an amusing out of control zany tale will want to join Serge takes Hollywood.