Rating:  Summary: Very Entertaining Review: This is a very entertaining book. The characters are memorable and real enough to want to call them on the phone. As a student of satire, I have to give Hasket's book thumbs up.
Rating:  Summary: Great Book - Lousy Publisher Review: This is a wonderfully sad/funny story with great characters. The story centers around Duncan Delaney, an artist equally out of place in his home state of Wyoming or in Los Angeles. Duncan's infatuation with a beautiful stripper results in some of the best dialogue and characterizations I've seen in a long time. Now why does the publisher make this book so hard to find? I could only find it here, despite repeated efforts to order it elsewhere, and then it went out of stock, I had to buy it used, and now I see it's back on sale after several months in limbo. Mr. Haskett, do yourself a favor. Dump JonLin books for your next novel. I'm waiting to buy it.
Rating:  Summary: Buy it, Great Characters Review: This is great book. I loved the characters. You can't beat a book with cowboys, strippers and lesbians. It was a fun and easy read.
Rating:  Summary: Quirky Novel Not "for" Lesbians Review: This was an enjoyable quick read, very funny. The characterization was fresh and interesting and the descriptions of L.A.'s wasteland truly amusing.It was just not at all what I thought I was buying based on it being offered by Amazon as a "lesbian" book. Sure there are lesbians in it, but the categorization of it as "lesbian" at this site has always meant to me written by lesbians, for lesbian readers *and* featuring prominent lesbian protagonists, not just side characters. Saying this is a "lesbian" book would be like saying Basic Instinct is a "lesbian" movie because the female murderer was bisexual. So I'm not at all sure why Amazon *features* this novel on its list of books recommended to lesbian readers. That aspect of the story is about 20% of the novel; all the other novels on the Amazon list run 80-100% about, by for and concerning lesbians.
Rating:  Summary: Amusing Review: This was an entertaining read with fun characters. The dialogue is lively. The book has moments of humor. I would have given it 5 stars, but there were vague moments. Still, it is a good book, and I recommend it to anyone looking for Robbins-like characters.
Rating:  Summary: Read This Book Review: Very amusing, brief and funny. I recommend Duncan Delaney and the Cadillac of Doom to anyone who likes lighthearted plots and characters with unusual, even bizarre personality traits. I look forward to other books by this new author.
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