It was supposed to be funny, guess we have different senses of humour. Yes I chuckled at times, smiled frequently but never did I LOL. I found there to be an underlying sadness in all the characters that weighed down silly scenes. Set in the 1980s some of the pop references of the time, were likely lost on me, I am passing it on to others
because it is well written and still worth the read for its efforts at humour.