Review: Huge

Huge by Brent Butt
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Who would've guessed that the deadpan Canadian comedian behind Corner Gas had such a deadly good thriller in him? Well, it's the sort of book that you can almost read in Brent Butt's own distinctive voice, until it starts mutating into a uniquely demented take on the slasher genre, with a serial killer who only wants to make the world laugh with him instead of at him. If only he was actually funny, because it's not so funny anymore when he's getting the drop on anyone and everyone who pisses him off. But to balance out the major league darkness of Hobie Huge and his warped ways, there are a couple of well developed good guy comedians in this 90s-era Canadian Prairie circuit. Dale, the middle-aged American with a strained relationship to his family, and Rynn, a young Irish lass with a hell of a funny bone, especially when it comes to roasting Canada for its horrendously cold winters. I really hope Butt writes more good books now that the Corner Gas franchise is dormant, because the world needs more of his brand of entertainment.

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