Public Service Announcement: Devil's Place Launch

Self-appointed Malaysian Most Prominent Blogger (or something), oh I've checked, it's Blogger of the Year, the very funny guy, Brian Gomez of Pundak and Floating Turd fame, has written a book. An actual book with words and story line and plot and such like. All 300 plus plus pages of it.

Devil's Place, as the synopsis goes, revolves around :

Ning Somprasong gave up working the streets of Thailand for the more tolerable hotel rooms of Kuala Lumpur. She thinks that if she can send enough money back home, her daughter can avoid making the same choices she had to make.

Terry Fernandez is a struggling musician who's marrying up. And in the process trading in the life he loves for a world he can't understand. When he finds his friends dead in his room at The Grand on the night of his bachelor party, he naturally thinks the Minister of Education is trying to kill him.

Chua Chee Ming has been spouting crazy conspiracy theories to anyone who suffers the misfortune of getting into his cab. He thinks the CIA and the Government are trying to kill him because of his theories on human cloning.

Julio Chavez of the CIA hated his posting in Malaysia, until a dead terrorist was found in a hotel room at The Grand. He thinks the Chinese Communist Party is involved somehow.

Suleiman Salleh is back in Malaysia after hiding out in Indonesia for several years. The Most Wanted Man in South-East Asia is on a very important mission but he thinks he's being stalked by a homosexual.

Fellatio Lim Boon Fatt is a pimp who has lost one of his girls. He thinks the name Fellatio means the Greek God of Power and Wish-dom.

Along with a jaded ex-bouncer, a sleazy cop and an old man who's looking for his cat, these people find themselves in the middle of The War on Terror, where nothing is what they think it is…"

If you have been reading his blog(s), you know very well that he is very, very funny. And if you haven't been reading, why the hell not??

I was given the honour to read and review the book. However, I am not as prolific and clever, like Amir Muhammad, so I can only say this:

I LIKE THIS BOOK VERY MUUUUCCCHHHH.

It's fast-paced. It's funny. It's not at all pretentious like how some published Malaysian English writers are wont to be like when they write books. (This is of course my very own personal observation and you can say what you like but seriously, must you be all pseudo-intellectual and clever to publish a book if you're a Malaysian? Can't they be un-dire and funny and simple?)

Devil's Place will be launched at Bojangles this Friday, 28th November 2008. Details can be found in the event poster at the side bar of my blog. Brian himself will be there, and who knows, if you're fanatic enough, he might want to give away his soiled underpants for you to keep.

OK maybe not, but he did say he'll give away some of his books if you're able to answer some questions based on whatever he has written before in his Turd blog.

Awesome eh?

So make your way to Bojangles at Sri Hartamas, don't forget your spare change to buy him a drink (and the book!) and undergarments to throw at him while he performs...Stairways to Heaven on acoustic guitar.

Hahahaha.