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SNAFU’D: A Novel

Ted Miller
IUniverse (2009)
ISBN 9780595442256
Reviewed by Gina Hollan for Rebecca's Reads (6/09)


I was recently introduced to this intriguing novel! The name, "“Snafu’d”  was familiar to me; it comes from something that I used to say all the time when I was younger. I used to tell my kids that I would snafu them if they didn’t behave! I am not even sure what it meant at the time, but I was delighted to see this word on a book! I feel privileged that the author, Ted Miller, and I have similar tastes in words!

“Snafu’d” is a novel, based in the 1970s.  Moe Graffiti is a sixty-year-old, wannabe Southern California beach boy, who is married, but does not stay faithful to his wife. He likes to date really young women and he thinks that he is the smartest guy in the auto industry. He has a silent partner, his former used car manager, who lives in Europe and helps Moe with his illegal car deals and faulty European cars.  His wife doesn’t care what he does as long as she is kept in the rich-circle spotlight and has all the money she needs. But Moe has a son, who does some very disturbing things in front of his wife’s social friends, and she is not very happy about that! Aside from all of these troubles, Moe is heavy into drugs, and someone is stealing his stash. Everywhere he hides it, someone seems to find it. So it’s definitely someone that Moe knows. The salesmen, who work for Moe, are onto him and his craziness, but they need their job and they can do no more than laugh behind his back.

I gave this novel 3 stars because I didn’t find that the storyline ever changed enough to keep me that interested. Some parts of the book I thoroughly enjoyed, but other parts I just read through, but was not very interested. The characters were all good but I feel as though this book was written with men in mind. I would definitely recommend that adult men who love to read buy this book. But I am not sure whether a lot of women my age or younger would enjoy the novel. If the novel had maybe a tiny bit more romance, that would be to my taste. To those who read this novel and enjoy it, maybe Ted would be happy to write a sequel to it!

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