Not my usual style, I wanted to try something different. A little difficult to get into at first and I found myself getting irritated with the 'gritty disaffectedness' of it all but the authors way of working the language does capture you and have you stay the course. None of the characters are lovable or memorable but somehow it doesn't matter because you are just enjoying reading the honest (what you previously called irritating) journal-like memoirs of these bitter, morally dubious (and slightly psychotic) old white men approaching death. The rehab and prison stories were the most interesting.