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Lunatics<\/em> is the story of two men bound together by the forces of fate, a mutual dislike for each other, and soccer.\u00a0\u00a0Author Alan Zweibel is the voice\u00a0of Philip Horkman,\u00a0who is a syrupy, overwhelmingly politically correct pet shop owner and occasional referee for a 10-year-olds’ soccer league.\u00a0 Dave Barry’s Jeffrey Peckerman is an obnoxious, egotistical, and self-centered plumber whose daughter was called offsides in a game officiated by Horkman.\u00a0 Peckerman confronts Horkman, and the two begin a wild chase from New Jersey into New York City where their actions cause the police to believe they might be terrorists. They stow onto a cruise ship and begin a voyage which will thrust them into separate conflicts involving Cuba, China, Mogadishu, Israel, and Palestine.<\/p>\n Their unintentional intervention into world events turns them from wanted criminals into cult heroes in a matter of weeks. \u00a0An eventual loss in a run for the Presidency ends their brief period of fame, and both characters return home to try and restore themselves to their former lives.\u00a0 At the end of the book, we find Peckerman going to an eleven-year-olds’ soccer game that\u00a0his daughter is playing in.\u00a0 Peckerman will not like the referee.<\/p>\n I’m a fan of authors reading their own works. \u00a0I think they can add nuance to their characters that a hired reader may not impart. \u00a0In Lunatics<\/em>, Barry and Zweibel punctuate each syllable with gusto. \u00a0A great book for a long car ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lunatics is the story of two men bound together by the forces of fate, a mutual dislike for each other, and soccer.\u00a0\u00a0Author Alan Zweibel is the voice\u00a0of Philip Horkman,\u00a0who is a syrupy, overwhelmingly politically correct pet shop owner and occasional referee for a 10-year-olds’ soccer league.\u00a0 Dave Barry’s Jeffrey Peckerman is an obnoxious, egotistical, and … Continue reading Lunatics by Dave Barry & Alan Zweibel (audio – read by the authors)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-steve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}