A hallucinatory and hilarious novel that functions somewhere between a crime caper and a suicide note. The story centers around Isaac, the night auditor at a crappy hotel. He hates his customers, he hates his job, and he’s suffering from (possible) delusions involving owls. But things go from bad to worse when a couple of shady counterfeiters blackmail him into helping with their criminal enterprise. What follows is a comedy of errors so violent and pitch-black it’s like a slapstick version of a...

I don't know where to start. Part of me says what the hell did I just read? Yet I have to admit I flew through this book (like an owl?) and couldn't put it down. Isaac is a young man who has led a very strange life. We are given a small glimpse into his past when as a young teen he was uprooted from his home.. though we are not given the why of it all. Do we need to know? I can't say the not knowing took away from my enjoyment of this humorous and horrifying story but I am certainly curious. Cur...

Most​ ​of​ ​us​ ​have​ ​had​ ​a​ ​job​ ​we​ ​hated​ ​at​ ​some​ ​point​ ​in​ ​our​ ​lives,​ ​perhaps​ ​still​ ​do.​ ​I​ ​was​ ​so impressed​ ​with​ ​the​ ​way​ ​the​ ​author​ ​turned​ ​these​ ​experiences​ ​into​ ​a​ ​well​ ​developed​ ​and cynically​ ​comical​ ​story, placing those ​thoughts we often keep to ourselves​​ remarkably​​ ​​well​​ ​​into ​​words.​ ​I was​ ​hooked​ ​from​ ​the​ ​start,​ ​with​ ​the​ ​“list​ ​of​ ​responsibilities”​ ​you​ ​must​ ​fulfill​ ​to​ ​be​ ​a​ ​successful hote...

I got to say that this novel is very enjoyable. It reminds me of the work published from the Dell Abyss line in the ‘90s. You know, a little horror here, a darkly humorous passage there. This original tale of a bored hotel night auditor who’s going rather cuckoo is filled with psychedelic images and unpredictable situations. Max Booth III is an author to watch. Told in the first person, his narrative is fun and as strong as that face-eating owl that keeps coming back in his story (a sort of a ho...

Isaac may be the worst hotel night auditor ever. In between his sleep depraved hallucinations, owl obsessions and late night rooftop jerking, he is rude to his customers, in love with a mysterious homeless girl and is totally crappy at disposing of bodies. He makes pretty good pancakes though, so there’s that. Too bad they don’t seem to last very long in the stomach. Not really a spoiler, just a meaningless rant that has basically nothing to do with the story: (view spoiler)[I read this one as a...

Isaac is a night auditor for the Goddamn Hotel, who, when not reading, watching porn or Netflix, or masturbating off the roof and onto the cars parked in the lot below, is dealing with surly, ignorant guests, deadbeat travelers, grifters, and the occasional corpse. After stealing a guest's lost wallet, and shocked by the disturbing owl-related attack of a co-worker, Isaac is caught up in some dark situations well and truly over his head. He also has a crush on a homeless bulimic girl.By turns fu...

This book is for anyone who has felt that their job is a life sentence. For Isaac, it just might be.  He is the night auditor at a hotel, and the situations he gets into are not only unbelievable but humorous in the darkest of ways.  Isaac's best friend works at the neighboring hotel, part of the same chain.  They share whiskey and race luggage carts down the hotel halls for entertainment.  Isaac has other methods of coping with the stress and boredom of his job, especially on the roof of the ho...

It is said one should write about what they know. Max Booth definitely knows something about night auditing in a hotel. Much of what is in The Nightly Disease comes from his experiences working that very job; hopefully not the actual events but from the strange and cynical atmosphere that night duty brings. Having worked a series of night shifts in a series of strange jobs in my much younger years, I can vouch that the midnight hours brings out a different and not always complimentary side of hu...

As if Isaac's soul-crushing gig as night auditor at The God Damn Hotel wasn't bad enough, now he has to contend with two methed up shoe manufacturers, a bulimic girl, and numerous corpses.I got this from DarkFuse via Netgalley.Ever wonder what crazy shit goes on at a hotel during the night shift? Wonder no longer!The Nightly Disease is the tale of Isaac, the night auditor of a hotel, and how his life spiraled out of control after one ill advised decision. It's hilarious and suspenseful and very

i just finished reading this book in a hotel, and this certainly enhancend the experience.my actual review will be short:Max Booth III is one of my favorite writers in the business today. No one writes dialogue like him in the indie press world.Everyone should read him. Like, now.

Review is percolating like coffee.

Issac is a "night auditor" for a chain of motels in Texas. His time there (when he's lucky), consist of masterbating on the roof, hours of Netflix, talks with his fellow auditor from across the way, George, and making pancakes for a bulimic woman that he thinks he's in love with. Unfortunately, there are times when he actually has to unclog toilets, bring towels to the guests, evade domestic disputes, and hear tales of owls that like to eat the face off of people.Quite the life.Until he gets cau...

Wow. THE NIGHTLY DISEASE by Max Booth III is an amazing story. Who knew you could take your crummy night shift job, add in some owls and sprinkle it over a gripping crime story and get a masterpiece? Max Booth! That's who!From the opening line of the book and straight through to the final period, THE NIGHTLY DISEASE drags you into its talons and refuses to let go. So many great, quotable sentences pepper the pages of the book. The prose is wonderful. The plot is nerveracking. Isaac, the protagon...

Fock Wurk. This was a fun read about owls and death, some vomit and masturbation, stuffed with some really great references to movies in the everyday life of a night auditor. I liked reading that everyone finds the shortcuts to avoid actual work and develops creative ways to entertain themselves while the clock drags on the job, and that the narrator knows customers despise him just as much as he does them. I laughed at many parts, cringed at a few, but really enjoyed this thing. The plot took m...

I saw this on Netgalley first, and since I'm Social Media buddies with the author, the book's description had me searching for a GIMMIE! link before I was even finished reading it! (see the GR comment I left on the 27th, before I even got the book >.< )Excellent read, and full review will be posted soon.

I will not do this book justice with this review, but I'll try. This was the kind of read I want to say is heart-breaking, fun, weird, impenetrable, bizarre as can be, un-put-down-able, and a dozen other adjectives that won't describe it adequately.Full disclosure: Booth published one of my stories in his Lost Signals anthology, but I don't know him personally and as far as I know don't owe him my allegiance, soul, or first-born. This is as honest review as I can write of an author who shares a

Working with the public in an entry-level job can be demoralizing; whether you work in retail or fast food, the dregs of humanity and the individual’s desire to lord their power over the laborer send shivers down the spines of those who know. Some people make a career out of it and go into management, while others find a way to move into another career or end up suffering through it for a very long time. The Nightly Disease is Max Booth III’s novel of an existential crises suffered by a young ma...

The book has just enough typos to frustrate me, and some continuity and logistical weirdness that twigged me every time I spotted it, but it's very tightly written, very well-paced, and it trout-slapped me with its plot twists, which hardly ever happens--less because I'm a precognitive reader (but I am) than because so many people are predictable writers.Those said:It's about a night auditor, which is part of what attracted me to it, okay, I held that position for a few years, in the carefree da...

Max Booth III is improving with every release and THE NIGHTLY DISEASE is a major step up. What begins as the somewhat amusing chronicles of a lonely hotel night auditor take a strange turn about a third into the novel when the surreal nature of the night and his sleep deprived subconscious start to get the better of him. Think the Grand Budapest Hotel meets Lost Highway. It's funny, heartwarming, terrifying and yet it's nearly impossible to tell what is real and what is projected by protagonist'...

Isaac is the night auditor at the God Damn Hotel in the middle of nowhere Texas. His nights are endless stretches of Netflix binges and masturbating on the roof of the hotel. Totally what I did when I worked as a night auditor. (You can tell this author really works in the hotel business-he cracked me up with these parts)Then a new employee catches Isaac's attention. Mandy 2. She might be the one to fall in love with him since the Bulimic homeless girl hasn't realized her love for him yet. He st...