A pretty standard satire of an author as an enfant terrible. Writer Fante Bukowski is so awful and entitled in the first book that I doubted I would have tried the second if I had read it as a stand-alone work, but since it was but the first chapter of this collection of all three books in the series, I powered on and slowly the jackass ground me down and I started to see some of the charm hidden under the cringe and stupidity. Mostly though I think I was won over by the trio of women who suffer his buffoonish presence.

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Contents: Introduction / Ryan Boudinot -- Fante Bukowski Book One / Noah Van Sciver -- Fante Bukowski Book Two / Noah Van Sciver -- Fante Bukowski Book Three / Noah Van Sciver -- 6 Poems by Fante Bukowski / Noah Van Sciver -- Visual Tributes by Various Artists / Josh Bayer, Marc Bell, Box Brown, Nina Bunjevac, Anya Davidson, Max de Radiguès, Simon Hanselmann, Jesse Jacobs, Steve MacIsaac, Pierre Maurel, Bryan Moss, Ed Piskor, John Porcellino, Cristina Portolano, Joseph Remnant, Eric Reynolds, Giulia Sagramola, Zak Sally, Leslie Stein, and Alessandro Tota, illustrators -- Works Cited ( )

Consistently laugh-out-loud funny. ( )