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The humor is often coarse, with plenty of farting, faces compared to dog anuses and the like. And thats a terrific problem for us writersto accept the fact that our readers dont give a shit about us. Pete hautman always takes on big issues in his books. The plot of an underage kid going into las vegas and winning thousands of dollars is very good and intriguing but the way hautman organized the paragraphs.
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