Lareau's fiction is both irreverent and mystical. Whether he draws his material from the gutters of life or from flights of imaginative fancy, he strikes his reader with one hammering wake-up call after another. He is a surviving Boston beatnik, a new paradigm metaphysician, a photographic artist, and an author in many genres including consciousness theory, poetry, drama, photography and business. Not a prolific producer in any single genre, he instead applies his genius to a very broad spectrum, chasing his inquisitiveness with reckless abandon. His writing is sometimes reminiscent of Bukowsky.