Reviews for My gun has bullets

The average rating for My gun has bullets based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-09-26 00:00:00 Antonia Hauck Fame - it's nothing but bullshit. I read this book because I liked the blurb, only reading the reviews afterward. The negative reviews really surprised me, until I realized some of the people who posted may have been expecting something along the lines of the MONK books. While I haven't read any of them, I did watch a few episodes of the TV series, and it was really good PG entertainment. This book, however, was aimed at the more adult audience. As a thriller, it was a very good story, and I thought the jokes were hilarious. It kind of reminded me of the Cole/Pike characters by Crais, or the Kenzie/Gennarro characters by Lehane, or even Myron/Win by Coben - although it might be more humorous than those. If I had to pinpoint it, I would rate this somewhere between Carl Hiaason and Tim Dorsey, but with a GET SHORTY/BE COOL/BIG TROUBLE vibe. Maybe I'm just biased because I used to be a movie and television fanatic when I was younger - I think I got the jokes, in other words. And, while humor is subjective, I really do think this book deserves a much higher rating. Yes, yes, yes - the cesspool that is Hollywood. Or, perhaps more accurately, Hollyweird. We've all heard that being in Hollywood is like being on another planet - these people have a very warped idea of normal. And, being on top means everybody loves you, despite having to be the dirtiest player in the game. Most of them make sharks look like Salvation Army mascots and have a moral compass that would make a dictator envious. Friendships are built on mutual respect for money and influence, even though a mild wind could blow it away with tomorrow's failures. True love is as fleeting as a fart in a hurricane. Bonds are as shallow as the shadow of snake shit at the bottom of the ocean. And, nearly all of them are attention whores who will do things that will make a crack-addicted street hooker blush. With over-inflated egos, they have vainglorious ideas of their worth and will live in denial if others can't see it. And don't get me started on "reality" tv stars who have illusions of grandeur coming out of their ears, but rarely the talent to actually back it up. Indeed, this is LaLa Land where only the most ruthless can survive. And the worst part? It is our fault. We enable them. Because we buy into their shit. And it is all bullshit. Think about it for a moment: We like these people and give them money to be somebody they are not. It is all fake, every single thing, yet we buy into how good or bad people are based on made up characters. And then some of them will hate those very characters who made them famous. And there is the magic word: FAME. Fame and wealth means you can do whatever you want, whenever you want, and not have to worry about consequences. They live by a different set of rules than the rest of humanity. And that is what this book so beautifully captures. "And that's when he came to a stunning realization: you don't have to be an actor in a TV show to confuse reality with television. Nobody can tell the difference. Everybody thinks these characters are real." Which is why, when Charlie Willis gets shot by the most famous television actress in the world during a traffic stop, he gets his own television series with a decent paycheck, called MY GUN HAS BULLETS. Allow me this little experiment - I will explain soon: 1. Jaleel White 2. Bronson Pinchot 3. Philip Michael Thomas 4. George Wendt 5. Dwight Schultz 6. Maggie Wheeler 7. Roger E. Mosley 8. Bruce McGill 9. Michael Cudlitz 10. Nicholas Brendon 11. Kevin Sussman 12. Jim Beaver 13. Wade Williams 14. Rico Rodriguez 15. C.S. Lee 16. Rachelle Shumway 17. Kathryn Joosten 18. Tim Kang 19. William B. Davis 20. Joe Tuttle Okay, the twenty names I have given you up here are all actors who became famous in well known and much watched television shows, ranging from the 80's to now. All of them had significant roles in their respective shows. How many do you recognize? (I'll admit, the younger generation may struggle with some of them.) Oh, wait, you need more clues for the twenty names? Right - these are their character names. 1. Steve Urkel 2. Balki Bartokomous 3. Ricardo Tubbs 4. Norm Peterson (Nooooorrrrmmmmmm) 5. 'Howling Mad' Murdock 6. Janice Hosenstein 7. Theodore "T.C."Calvin 8. Jack Dalton 9. Abraham Ford 10. Xander Harris 11. Stuart Bloom 12. Bobby Singer 13. Brad Bellick 14. Manny Delgado 15. Vince Masuka 16. Julia Shumway 17. Karen McCluskey 18. Kimball Cho 19. Cigarette Smoking Man 20. Greg Smith Easy, right? Anyway, back to the book. It is war between the studios to take the top spot (ratings wise) for their television shows. And that was before the mob got involved. "After all, that's how he got this job in the first place. Every executive knew the only way to step up in network television was on someone else's back." And, when the first person dies, it will be Charlie (the good guy) who pulled the trigger. Everything starts to snowball... What's that? You need more info on the list? Okay, here are the shows they were in, which made them famous. 1. Family Matters 2. Perfect Strangers 3. Miami Vice 4. Cheers 5. The A-Team 6. Friends 7. Magnum P.I. 8. MacGuyver 9. The Walking Dead 10. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 11. The Big Bang Theory 12. Supernatural 13. Prison Break 14. Modern Family 15. Dexter 16. Under The Dome 17. Desperate Housewives 18. The Mentalist 19. The X-Files 20. Mindhunter Got it? I bet you're kicking yourself right now. The book - Things get out of hand. The hitman, the ratings, the dog, the perfect boobs... And, just out of curiosity - is there a term for the opposite of beastiality? So, if you've reached this point in the review, you are either interested in where I'm going with this or you are stubborn as fuck. The point of this experiment was this: For every episode you've watched of these shows, you invited these people into your home and convinced yourself you like them, simply because they showed you someone they are NOT. Bet you had to Google most of their faces to see who I was talking about. And when you did, you asked yourself: 'I wonder what happened to that person?' And, was your life any worse because they were not in it anymore? I'm not immune, guys, I also buy into the bullshit. I watched all twenty shows I mentioned, and many more which I didn't. I liked these characters, but I don't know any of them, even though my brain tries to convince me otherwise. And that brings me back to my original statement: Fame - it's nothing but bullshit. Read this book if you want to be entertained.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-06-15 00:00:00 Earl Gray Screwball type mystery set in the television industry. A policeman pulls over an Angela Lansbury type actress, who shoots him. Tho hush things up, the studio gives the cop a TV show. Meanwhile, the mob is trying to muscle its way into the business. The Angela Lansbury type thinks someone is trying to blackmail her. The cop and a wanna-bee actress start poking around. Humorous, but what does Goldberg have against Chad Everett?