Guy Grand's pranks are hilarious, sure. Actually, Southern deserves a lot of credit here. It's amazing how well his humor has held up. It's still fresh, still very funny. However, as a full on novel, it doesn't work. The prank sequences, which are all quite funny, are punctuated with pieces of this horribly boring scene that extends throughout the entire novel and fails to really say much about anything. I found myself skipping those parts towards the end and enjoying the humorous segments for what they were: disconnected comical ideas, perhaps most appropriate as synopses for episodes of an imaginary sitcom.