While I was waiting for my car inspection I finished #17 in the Stephanie Plum mystery (or humor) series. While the premise is getting a bit old, it still contained a number of laugh out loud passages and stories. The sex is getting more frequent and graphic, but this is no Fifty Shades of Gray, it started at them "then we turned off the light" level. Stephanie is getting marginally more competent at what she does, but the theme is still "barely capable bounty hunter ekes out a living with the help of luck and her friends."
If you haven't ever read on of these, they really are funny, the characters are consistent from book to book, and they do evolve over time, although slowly. If you can picture some of the scenes in the book they are seriously funny, although unlikely. Like many women with liberal arts degrees Stephanie is doing something she would rather not, just to have a job, and as is often true in that case, she's not really all that good at it. The fact that there even is a book 17 should tell you that people really do enjoy these books, and for pure entertainment they are closer to the Marx Brothers than the Three Stooges, ie. not really dumb.
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