When Jack Reilly, Willy Taylor, and John Colletti meet in homeroom on the first day of high school, little did they know what adventures the future held. The Three Extras begins as a lighthearted coming of age tale through the sixties and seventies and then hurls us into the future as an eighty-five year-old John recalls the times of their lives at Jack’s out-of-the-ordinary wake. In this funny, nostalgic, touching, and erotic tale involving the lifelong friendship of three misfits who couldn’t go it alone but who would find fame and fortune by adhering to their rock trio's motto, “It’s all of us or none of us," John Rullo captures an era. By contrasting the excitement of sixties youth with first the absurdity of Hollywood and then the distressing finality of growing old, he drives us on a joyride through time, singing a tribute to a life well lived.
An entertaining, "coming of age" book one can breeze through effortlessly. It made this reader smile all of the way through. The cast of characters was so believable, like people you went to high school with if you're a baby boomer. The encounters The Three Extras have in their "new" career are beyond fun.