As expected, the rest of this book is as great as originally thought. Let me describe the story up until the end of part one. Our main character, Ethan Jarlewski, works in Vancouver as a video game engineer. His mother owns a marijuana grow-op, and his father is an aspiring actor who can only manage to land roles as extras. From here proceeds a series of partially random and only partially related events that are hilarious but kind of chimerical (OMG a vocab word!!11!one!11! <.<)
At the beginning of the book, Ethan’s mother accidentally kills a biker for extorting for a share of her grow-op. She has this puddle in the corner of the marijuana greenhouse that she can charge with electricity whenever something threatens her, and that's how Tim the biker died.
After mother and son get rid of the body (stopping at a garage sale on the way back), Ethan's house gets overrun with illegal Chinese immigrants, the team decides to covertly insert a serial killer clown with a secret lair into their lame skateboard game-in-development, and Steve, Ethan's immediate boss, falls in love with Ethan's mom and promptly disappears.
And that's just the beginning. You'll have to read parts two and three yourself to see the awesome. Hint: Think SARS. Hugging machines. Home-brewed cola tainted with coke. Lesbians with lowercase names.
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