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Summary: Kinky serves heapin' heppin's of Texas humor in Roadkill.
Review: As prosaic and poetic as Gerard Manley Hopkins on a steady diet of Shiner(with apologies to said poet), Kinky Friedman, in a thoughtful and classically burlesque manner, serves up a heapin' heppin' of Texas humor in Roadkill, his newest novel featuring "Old Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain" Willie Nelson as the monsieur in distress. Don't miss it!
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Summary: Let me save you some time.
Review: Avoid this pablum. I admit, I am not a hardcore Kinky/Willie/Don Imus fan, although I have enjoyed bits n' pieces of each over the years. Spotted the Kinky Friedman title in the library and toted it home. Could not for the life of me get past the first 100 pages. Folks, it's just overly smarmy and self-absorbed with that good ol' bubba lifestyle. If that is your turn-on, you may enjoy it, but even so, it's a pretty slowww plot line. It takes half the novel, just for 'the Kinkster' to recover from a hangover and get on a bus with Willie Nelson after he has been invited. Y-A-W-N. You could have a MUCH better few hours indulging yourself in your favorite consumptive vice and cranking up Whiskey River on the stereo. Give this one a pass.
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Summary: Let me save you some time.
Review: Avoid this pablum. I admit, I am not a hardcore Kinky/Willie/Don Imus fan, although I have enjoyed bits n' pieces of each over the years. Spotted the Kinky Friedman title in the library and toted it home. Could not for the life of me get past the first 100 pages. Folks, it's just overly smarmy and self-absorbed with that good ol' bubba lifestyle. If that is your turn-on, you may enjoy it, but even so, it's a pretty slowww plot line. It takes half the novel, just for 'the Kinkster' to recover from a hangover and get on a bus with Willie Nelson after he has been invited. Y-A-W-N. You could have a MUCH better few hours indulging yourself in your favorite consumptive vice and cranking up Whiskey River on the stereo. Give this one a pass.
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Summary: Friedman is funny, and this is one of his better mysteries.
Review: Even his enemies must admit that Kinky Friedman is clever. Too his fans, he's hilarious. This is another mystery with himself as hero/detective. Willie Nelson plays the part of potential victim. Funny as usual, and with a good story line, as well. Not a Nobel Prize candidate, but definitely a fun read.
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Summary: Kinky is a fine author and a great songwritter!!
Review: Ihave been a fan of Kinky's music for over twenty years. The good news is this book is as entertaining as his music. The bad nrews is all of his energy is expended on his detective novels, he no longer writes those great songs
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Summary: Kinky is a fine author and a great songwritter!!
Review: Ihave been a fan of Kinky's music for over twenty years. The good news is this book is as entertaining as his music. The bad nrews is all of his energy is expended on his detective novels, he no longer writes those great songs
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Summary: Not
Review: It's hard not to like Kinky, but much less effort is needed to dislike this particular book. To his credit, he has a couple of good lines, and that's almost a literal count. To his discredit, the book doesn't tell a story worth reading. Nor does it particularly outrage and offend, unless you happen to be upset by profanity. Worst of all, it tells a truth it probably didn't intend to: that even a diehard musician like Kinky can't rehabilitate Willie Nelson into anything more than a pathetic, irrelevant, perpetually stoned figure. The only possible reason to buy this book would be to give it away as a gift, which is exactly how it ended up on my bookshelf.
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Summary: A Cosmic Romp
Review: Kinky Friedman, the self-proclaimed Last of the Landless Texas Jewish Singing Cowboys, is in a deep-purple funk in his loft in Noo Yawk City, despite heroic efforts of his friends and his cat. Willie Nelson is scraping the emotional bottom, too, thinking his tour bus has killed a native American medicine man and someone's trying to kill him. Put these two chess-playing cowboys together and you have the funniest, yet gripping, mystery novel of the year. Willie invites Kinky to travel with him to try to find the killer, who Kinky suspects is one of Willie's 83 ex-wives. Kinky finds a new bunch of buddies, Ben, Booger, Gator, and two cigar-smoking, wise-cracking native Americans, who, along with his Village Irregulars, to help hi sift the facts from the road grit. Kinky's inimitable use of a good plot as a springboard to literary, social, political, and philosophical musings continues to illustrate his broad grasp of literature and history. His anecdotes about celebrities in the entertainment business provide an extra spark.
So, here's Kinky at his best, on a cosmic romp across the country with the legendary Red Headed Stranger. Don't miss this one! This book elevates Kinky from the cult status he has enjoyed. Lookout for the best seller lists!
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Summary: Still Chuckling
Review: My 1st ride on the Friedman bandwagon. Hope the next one is as much fun. I'm now looking for a puppethead for my refrigerator. (Too bad we live in a world with more rules than common sense. The system won't let me use the auther's first name in the review)
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Summary: Still Chuckling
Review: My 1st ride on the Friedman bandwagon. Hope the next one is as much fun. I'm now looking for a puppethead for my refrigerator. (Too bad we live in a world with more rules than common sense. The system won't let me use the auther's first name in the review)
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