Tales from the Gas Station
Book description
Drunk customers. Shoplifting raccoons. Otherworldly visitors. As night shift clerk at the twenty-four-hour gas station at the edge of town, Jack has pretty much seen it all.
That is, until his best friend reveals the body of a local politician hidden in the trunk of a car, setting off a…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Tales from the Gas Station as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Beautiful and ridiculous deadpan hilarity.
I recommend starting with Volume One of the series, which is fantastic. But I’m calling out Volume Two in this particular list because it’s where Jerry, one of my favorite characters ever, really hits his stride.
Not to take anything away from Jack (the first-person protagonist who exhibits a dry, laid-back sense of humor in the face of all kinds of outrageous paranormal absurdities) but for me Jerry is a perfect example of a character that doesn’t take himself, or anything else in the world, seriously at all.
Without a doubt the best dark humor series set in a gas…
From Joe's list on people who don’t take themselves too seriously.
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