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The Panama Laugh is brilliantly imagined apocalypse fiction; it's greed gone wild. Thomas Roche's action/adventure zombie book is completely rendered and cinematic in scale and it's both one of the funniest and most terrifying books I've read. I'm not going to go into the plot because the other reviews do that very well. I will say that it's a reading adventure that starts out with a bang and doesn't let up. Chapters alternate between past and present until the reader gets the complete picture of the anti-hero's backstory and world. It's a very terrifying world; the military politics and 1% are upsettingly close to reality and you can almost see something like this happening. Well -- maybe not zombies, but who knows? It's a roller coaster ride that speeds you along.

I also love the hat tip to a current popular porn empire, as well as the ever present lunatic fringe of our world. So, why four stars? Why not five? The story, the plot, the fully rendered characters, the sheer cleverness are all worth five stars plus, but I was jolted from the world too often by a lack of competent editing. If it were cleaned up a little, this book could be a runaway best seller. It also cries out for a film treatment. Here's hoping the right people discover it so we can go see it on the big screen.


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The Panama Laugh Thomas S Roche 9781597802901 Books Reviews

Very off-beat zombie tale. I bought this book over 2 years ago and finally got around to it. It is not available as an e-book right now, I think only in paperback and audio-format. At first this was a very confusing story to read as the author kept going back in time 5 yrs or so and then bringing the story forward to the present. But, it is very difficult to tell when he makes the switch in time in the story (no "***" or chapters to clearly mark when the character's point of view changes). In one paragraph events are happening in the past, and then BAM! The story switches to the present! I had to pause several times and get reoriented into the flow of the story. This made the story more confusing than it should have been.

Thank goodness the author finally stopped doing this about 2/3 thru the story. This is a pretty gruesome/gory zombie thriller. Overall I enjoyed the story. "Frosty" is a different kind of anti-hero and he has an oddball set of friends/associates.
Almost completely unreadable.
Impossible to know when you were in the past or in the present !!
The story itself was not too bad.
Boyfriend read this in 2 days must be good
Panama laughs is a great read if you like action, a quick plot and an outragous writing style. The book quickly takes you into the action and keeps you reading just to find out what will happen next. The main charactor is in the style of Kadry's "Sanman Slim. This is a great first effort and I look forward to many more books from Thomas S Roche. If he keeps this up, he could become one of those writer that I keep watch for so I can preorder the book as soon as it appears.
This book takes you on a crazy trip to a world peopled with hideous, laughing zombies. The book grabs you right away and never lets up. The gore level is pretty high, not a bad thing in a zombie novel. This book kept me awake, turning pages to find out how it all turns out.
Zombies? Check. Gross violence? Check. Creepiness? Check. Fast-paced action? Check. Engaging characters? Check.

All that stuff was great, and skillfully done. But the best thing is the quirky style the author brings to the genre. In the middle of the worst apocalyptic crisis imaginable, you get a description of a bad southern accent imitation like this "J.R. Ewing drunk on Sterno, rehearsing for a bit part in a Broadway-musical remake of Deliverance." Like a good chef, Roche knows how to season the book with this kind of flavor in just the right spots, in just the right amounts, without over-doing it. I was delighted every time I ran into such a passage.

Oh, and by the way, I want a sequel. I've seen the apocalypse. Now I want to see the post-apocalyptic hijinks.
The Panama Laugh has been high on my to-read list for a bit, but it moved up in the queue because Paul Goat Allen (of Barnes and Noble) said it was awesome. Yep, The Panama Laugh made a zombie fave list of his, and it's been a few books since my last zombie novel, so it was time. There's a fairly comprehensive synopsis above so I won't rehash it. I will say that The Panama Laugh grabs you by the throat, hard, pretty much from page one and doesn't let you go. Please let me stress this. It. Doesn't. Let. Up. Dante Bogart is pretty much everything I love in an anti-hero. Yes, I'm a sucker for the bad boys sometimes, I admit it, and Frosty D. (don't call him that)¸falls right in with just the kind of guy that would get my motor running. When the man wakes up naked, bloody, and loaded for bear in the middle of a battleground, gets up, surveys the scene, takes a suspicious-yet-valuable looking case with him, and makes his getaway, I'm totally his by the time he washes up at the home of his old friend Van Fish, wondering where the last 5 years went. His old flame, Trixie (that's Dr. Trixie to you) is there too, and she's a little bit pissed at how Dante left things between them. That's really the least of his worries though. Trust me on this one. When the laughers start invading the shoreline of Fish's jungle home, the real fun starts.

Thomas Roche pulls absolutely no punches with Panama Laugh. The guffawing (this is seriously creepy-making), hysterical dead come from every direction, and thanks to a relatively good supply of ammo, lots of guts end up flying around. Lots. A veritable cornucopia of gooey flying zombie flesh fills the pages of The Panama Laugh. As Dante, Trixie, and Van make their escape via air, eventually ending up on a nuclear fortified gunship of the coast of San Francisco, our hero rarely flags. Told in first person from Dante's POV, the narrative goes back and forth between the action at hand to the events leading up to the zombie apocalypse, and it's not a pretty story. Corporate greed, a madman's desire for eternal life, and radical groups bent on depopulation make for a heady cocktail, and Dante's experience with the nasty cause of the Panama Laugh is very, very personal. Giving away too many details would take away the visceral fun of this awesome, terrifying, gruesome, and warped roller coaster ride, and I certainly don't want to do that. Roche's writing is tight, immediate, and engaging, and if you're anything like me, you'll want to read it in one sitting (ok, I read it in two, but I wanted to read it in one.) Horror lovers will eat this one up (sorry about the pun), and if you're a true zombie fan, it's not to be missed. I was in the mood for something "zombie", different, and awesome, and I got all three, and more, with The Panama Laugh. Put this one on your must list!
The Panama Laugh is brilliantly imagined apocalypse fiction; it's greed gone wild. Thomas Roche's action/adventure zombie book is completely rendered and cinematic in scale and it's both one of the funniest and most terrifying books I've read. I'm not going to go into the plot because the other reviews do that very well. I will say that it's a reading adventure that starts out with a bang and doesn't let up. Chapters alternate between past and present until the reader gets the complete picture of the anti-hero's backstory and world. It's a very terrifying world; the military politics and 1% are upsettingly close to reality and you can almost see something like this happening. Well -- maybe not zombies, but who knows? It's a roller coaster ride that speeds you along.

I also love the hat tip to a current popular porn empire, as well as the ever present lunatic fringe of our world. So, why four stars? Why not five? The story, the plot, the fully rendered characters, the sheer cleverness are all worth five stars plus, but I was jolted from the world too often by a lack of competent editing. If it were cleaned up a little, this book could be a runaway best seller. It also cries out for a film treatment. Here's hoping the right people discover it so we can go see it on the big screen.