Too Much Stuff: A Novel
By Don Bruns
3/5
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A 1935 hurricane in the Florida Keys destroyed the East Coast Railway, killed five-hundred people and blew away the town of Islamorada. Lost in that storm was Mathew Kriegel, a finance director for the railroad, and one and a quarter million dollars in gold. Now newly minted private investigators Skip More and James Lessor, of More Or Less Investigations have been hired to find that lost treasure. Fighting off competitors, scuba diving, digging in a spooky cemetery and almost getting killed is only part of their job. Skip and James have stumbled onto the biggest most dangerous adventure of their lives.
Don Bruns
Don Bruns is a singer and songwriter, a painter, a cook, a traveler, and stand-up-comic who has not decided what to do when he grows up. He is also the author of two mystery series. His “stuff series” showcases the unstoppable yet bumbling young private investigators, James Lessor and Skip Moore, and his “music series” features rock and roll writer Mick Sever. Don and his wife, Linda, live in South Florida.
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Reviews for Too Much Stuff
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Too Much Stuffby Don Bruns2 starsToo much…somethingI had been looking forward to reading Too Much Stuff, my introduction to Don Bruns’ work. I love both comic novels and treasure hunts, so I thought this would be a sure-fire winner. Ever the optimist, in this case I was mistaken.Too Much Stuff is, I believe, the fifth novel in Bruns’ Stuff series. While it’s true that I have not entered this series with the characters’ full back stories and histories, I have a very difficult time imagining it would have made a difference in my enjoyment of the novel. The protagonists at the center of the series are 20-somethings Skip Moore and James Lessor. They’re high school grads that have been bumbling their way through a series of menial jobs. Now they’ve decided they’re going to be private detectives. They got the licenses and placed the yellow pages ad. This leads to their improbable first job, helping track down a fortune in lost gold in the Florida Keys.The blurb from Mystery Scene Magazine promised me “witty dialogue and likeable, wacky characters.” Well, I suppose that first person narrator Skip was ok, but violent, cop-hating, married woman-chasing James left me rather cold. As for the dialogue, it was about as far from witty as I can imagine. Sophomoric is more like it. In fact, that’s really the best description for these two characters. They are so unbelievably unsophisticated (emphasis on the unbelievable) that the prospect of valet parking throws them completely for a loop. I get it that these are working class characters, but, what? They’ve never seen a movie? I simply don’t find stupidity, ignorance, and a lack of sophistication to be a recipe for hilarity. What it is is tiresome.And perhaps I could have gotten past the cast of not very interesting or likable characters, and the decidedly unfunny comedy, if only there had been a great mystery plot. But the simple truth is, I was bored. The pages plodded, the dénouement was telegraphed, and surprises were rare. It was a short novel, but it was work to get through it.The publisher recently offered the first novel in this series as a Kindle freebie and I downloaded it, but somehow I doubt I’ll be revisiting this series. I’m glad others have enjoyed the novels, and goodness knows that humor is subjective. This stuff, it seems, is not for me.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/54 STARSThis mystery case is solved by two P.I.s who are not the most on the balls. James Lessor and Skip started More or Less Investigations after collage. They graduated at the bottom half of their class. They watched a lot of old movies instead of studing. They are always quoting old movies and the other one is g uessing.They have been hired to go to KeyWest and try to find 10 boxes of gold that was on a train in 1937 that was destroyed by a hurricane that killed over 500. The Flager railroad took 6 years to build but destroyed by hurricane.Mary Trueblood had hired 6 months ago other P.I.s that had vanished their number disconnected and internet site down. She found a letter that her grandfather had sent in code that he survived the hurricane. Where he might stash the gold for his company he would leave a clue their. He was afraid he might not be able to get back each box weighed around 200lbs worth around 44 millions dollars in todays market.James & Skip before they get too far in the investigations find a dead body in thier hotel room. Emily Skip's girl friend back home recieved a death threat to James, Skip and Mrs. Trueblood.So Emily comes down to join the boys. James has found a couple of girls in the mean time.They keep running into danger and making not the smartest moves especially James.I was given this ebook to read in exchange of honest review from Netgalley.