Book Review

BOOK REVIEW

BIKER by Robert "Bob Bit chin” Lipkin FTW Publishing Co. P.O. Box 668 Redondo Beach, Calif. 90277 $7.95

When last we reviewed the work of our disreputable pal Bob Bitchin, he’d written a novel. A trashy novel, the perfect framework for the sort of sleazy movie shown only at drive-ins during the summer. In exchange for the promise of a part in said movie we agreed to give his book an honest review. Which we did, namely that the novel was packed with unlikely sex scenes and unprintable language. But for some reason, no movie people came forth.

Instead, Bob has produced another book. This one isn't posing as fiction. It's a collection of essays in which Bob, who is six ft. something, weighs 300 lb., has tattoos and rides ... a Honda . . . travels across the U.S. and in Europe. He meets lots of different people and goes places few of us will ever see.

These essays contain little of socially redeeming value. Sailors will learn new' words. No misdemeanor goes uncommitted. The four letter words are sometimes misspelled. Even w'e who like the man, who think there’s a human being hiding inside the facade albeit not trying too hard to get out, were shocked.

What else? Only that some of the misadventures and observations herein will cause the bike-mad reader to laugh out loud even when nobody else is in the room.

In short, another honest review for the work of the only working outlaw author. This time, though, we give this fair appraisal in exchange for not being in the movie.-AG