I enjoy the kind of book where the writer just throws everything out there, absurd, obscene, or flippant, and somehow makes it all hang together. He makes a point of the way the plot is a tangled mess, though he does a pretty good job at keeping the reader from getting derailed. I even think he's making a serious thematic point about how badly adapted human beings are to the global issues we face, though I don't think the way the three heroes defeated the Big Bad in the end necessarily means anything deep. For writers, it is a very good illustration of how much sheer nonsense your reader will swallow as long as the characters are engaging, with the first person viewpoint character being a screwed up shlemiel, his friend John the essence of cartoon violence, and his girlfriend Amy being the moral center of the book (unless that role belongs to Amy's dog Molly, I'm not sure). I read this without having read the first one in the series which I'll probably go pick up some time also.