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Comedy is a special kind of thing. It works best when it is recognizable, but it has to be blown out of proportion to be truly hilarious.

Kate and Scott have a vice, let’s be honest, we all have our vices. But this isn’t enough for Nick Spalding; for Nick Spalding their shared vice has to be a crippling embarrassment to everyone around them.

Spalding created some of the best absurd, down-to-earth normal people that I have come across in a book. They are a rather normal middle-class family, with all of the stresses and problems that any normal family has – how they handle those problems is what really makes this story so much fun. I frequently found myself saying to the two of them, “No, please don’t do that; you’ve gone far enough. Please! Stop! Now!” These two were a couple of great characters.

I can picture Spalding writing Dry Hard. He has this great premise and with every aspect of the story he is trying to figure out how to constantly up the ante; and he does.

What I really appreciated about Dry Hard is that it is more than just a hilarious story about a family working out their problems. It goes a few places as well. This makes the story so much more, separating it from the rest.

*5 Stars

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Dry Hard

​By Nick Spalding

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