isn't the entire book a bit like NEEDFUL THINGS? People wishing for shit and getting it. This motherfucker ended like Stephen King's NEEDFUL THINGS.

Read the following SPOILERIFIC SPOILED SPOILERS at your own risk. SPOILERY SPOILS await the SPOILED because SPOILERS. Did I get my $12 worth? Yeah, but only because of that ending. Then I buy said book, no matter the price.

If she likes a book, it goes on my TBR list, no questions asked. I bought it on Amazon for $11.79, blindly. Which brings me to the price of this book. I plan on reading his memoir, STRANGE PLACES, as soon as I can talk myself into its twelve dollar price point. I don't know his story, but it supposedly explains what he went through while writing this and strengthens most readers' enjoyment of the piece. Speaking of the author, I've never heard of Will Elliott. Like I said, though, this was probably just my own brain's problem and not the fault of the author. Gonko, Rufshod, and Winston all had their own separate personalities, but Goshy and Doopy seemed interchangeable. Both spoke in different speech patterns, but when they weren't talking and the author was just describing them doing things, I had a hard time keeping up with who was who. Goshy and Doopy seemed like the same clown, and it wasn't until the honeymoon scene (which was sheer fucking genius in my opinion sick and brilliant) that I finally put a wedge between the two clowns and separated them. Now, about the two of the clowns (and this is probably only me), they kinda blended together into my head. The twin sides of the MC, so I just figured everyone was Jaime. I think this is what led me to believe that the book was going to turn out like IDENTITY. JJ's actions didn't shock me because Winston said 'The nicer the guy the meaner the clown,' so it ended up being all very predictable. I found the day in and day out ritual rather banal. We go from Brisbane to the Pilo Family Circus and, oddly enough, the book became boring for me. Every paragraph had me either disgusted, intrigued, or laughing my balls off. Original, dark, funny-as-hell, nasty, twisted, and more words and stuff and things. I expected the ending from the John Cusack/Ray Liotta movie, IDENTITY.

The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliott