I have tried to be on a "steampunk" kick lately but got sidetracked by an article about modern noir authors and have been trying to read all of the books mentioned since then. THE MOTEL LIFE is the first one and I blazed through it in a couple of days.
It's about a pair of unlucky brothers who live in seedy Reno motels and try to hammer out an existence for themselves. Both have creative talents that they only use to pass the time and get through life, and there's a sense throughout of "what might have been." At first this seems like a typical Bukowski style pastiche of the boozing lifestyle, but this wouldn't be a noir if that's all it was.
It's been a while since I read something that I kept wanting to get back to, and where I was disappointed to know it was over and that was all.
Listening to black metal a lot, things I was into in my late 20s. Wondering if my mid-life crisis is coming up.
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