The story begins at a girls’ 10 and under soccer game in New Jersey, refereed by Phillip Horkman, a happy mild-mannered owner of a pet store called the Wine Shop. Phillip calls a foul on a girl who would have made the tying goal in the championship game; the daughter of Jeffrey Peckerman a foul mouthed blowhard (as described by a neighbor). Peckerman doesn’t seem to have a good day unless you’re having a bad day. Lunatics lives up to its name by consistently escalating from one crazy happening to another. Terrorists to humanitarians, a political satire that doesn’t let you know what will happen next, with plenty of superior potty jokes.
Dave Barry, a bestselling Pulitzer Prize winning humorist says “Lunatics is geared toward the older not terribly mature reader”. The novel was actually a tag team effort written with TV writer Alan Zweibel. They said they actually wrote each chapter separately and tried to make it as hard as possible on each other with each introduction into a new adventure.
This is not one of his better books but a very funny one that leaps over the line of taste and wallows.
I really enjoyed listening to this book. The narrators really did use very good New Jersey accents. If you can overlook some of the bad language coming out of Peckermans’ mouth you will enjoy this book.