Finished New Year's Eve, Th 12/31/15, last book of 2015. The title stands for, "So Fucking What" which is Cliff's method of dealing with his life.
Cliff Paul Spab (rhymes with 'scab')with several other people are held captive in a Michigan 7- Eleven for 36 days by a group called SPLIT IMAGE. This stands for something, but pretty meaningless..
Joe Dice, Cliff's best friend, eighteen months younger, is with him and is killed in the bloody gun battle that ends the incident.
Wendy Pfister is also a hostage and she has a big bag of pot that they all smoke. They also drank the store out of beer.
They are being held by a group of suburban terrorists who want complete nuclear disarmament. They are taping the hostages and streaming it on the internet. Spab is loud, outspoken, and profane and he's a star.
After release, Wendy becomes a 'goody-goody' and becomes like a phony Republican for the media.
Directly after released, Cliff has a brief fling with Joe's sister, Monica. They've been friends and occasional lovers since childhood. Joe and Monica had an older brother, Frank, who was killed in a car accident- driving while getting a blowjob.
Cliff flees the Detroit area and splits to stay at a movie theater owned by a guy named Streeter. His room overlooks the marque.
The book ends abruptly with a couple of brief news stories. Wendy and Cliff are at a news conference and both are shot. Wendy is killed and Cliff is shot in the head and never comes out of a coma. The End.
Not worth it as a novel, and not very well developed. Did not make a whole lot of sense and just comes off as extremely odd.
Made into a movie in 1994, but not yet on Netflix. Here's the link on IMDB.-
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111048/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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