Einfach unbezahlbar, das Zeug:
ZitatAlles anzeigen"What're you gonna play, Jake?" the Doc called out from his ringside seat. I adjusted the mikestand, turned up my axe just enough to put it on an equal footing with Fast Eddie's upright, and tossed the ball right back to the Doc .
"What would you like to hear, Doc?"
"How about, `There Are Tears In My Ears From Lying On My Back And Crying In The Evening Over You?' "
"Naw," drawled Long-Drink from the bar, "I want to hear `He Didn't Like Her Apartment So He Knocked Her Flat,' " and a few groans were heard.
Doc Webster rose to the occasion. "Why not play the Butcher Song, Jake?"
I resigned myself to the inevitable. "The Butcher Song?"
"Sure," boomed the Doc, and conducting an invisible band, he sang, "Butcher arms around me honey/hold me tight . . ."
Peanuts began to rain on his head.
...und das sind nur die Jokes. Die Stories sind nochmal eine ganz eigene Klasse (leider nur in englisch wirklich gut zu genießen, die dt. Übersetzung taugt nicht viel). Mehr zu den Büchern hier.
Am einfachsten ist es wahrscheinlich, die Welt über das Computerspiel gleichen Namens kennenzulernen: Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (wird seit 1998 nicht mehr vertrieben)