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Summary: Deep look into a strange mind
Review: As mysteries go, THE MILE HIGH CLUB was so-so. Fortunately, this wasn't about being a mystery. Instead, it was a look into the mind of a man who confesses that he doesn't have much luck with women yet doesn't seem surprised when the beautiful woman seated next to him on a plane visits him for some wild times. He is as concerned with getting a new kitty litter tray as he was with being visited by the State Department, the hacked off finger delivered to him, or the dead body on his toilet.It's all tongue in cheek and a good time. While Friedman (the character) may not think much of women, remember--they don't think much of him either.
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Summary: One of Kinky's Best
Review: Giving a Kinky Friedman novel five stars is like saying your last meal at Cracker Barrel was the best you've ever eaten, you have to understand the context. Friedman is no Richard Russo, his novels are fun, witty pageturners but not to be taken seriously. That having been said, I thought The Mile High Club was one of his better efforts of late, and far superior to the claustrophobic Spanking Watson, in which the protagonist makes up a mystery and seldom leaves the apartment. Here Kinky's life is disrupted by a fellow air traveller, on a plane with him from Dallas to NY, who disappears after entrusting a small pink suitcase to our cigar-chomping hero. Kinky keeps the suitcase after not being able to spot Khadija among the swarm of passengers disembarking at LaGuardia Airport, and lo and behold we later learn that it contains a bag full of phony passports. As usual in Kinky's novels, his buddy Rambam does all the meaningful legwork and essentially solves everything, with a nice surprising twist here and there which I will not give away of course. Along the way, we are treated to Kinky's patented observations about everything from Howard Hughes (who didn't trim his toenails or fingernails for the last few years of his life, but who found the time to watch Ice Station Zebra hundreds of times) to Texans' willingness to urinate in public. I read more than I wanted to about cat turds and litterboxes, but since the litterbox played a role in the novel I can't complain that much. Overall, I think this novel represents Kinky in peak form, with an actual story to tell, punctuated by his unmistakeable irreverance.
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Summary: mile high was low
Review: i found Kinky's work was boring. i waited for something to really happen. Blower was dumb,take a nixon was not funny and a few other goofy sayings trying to be funny but not getting it done. no wonder you wont get more than 3.50 for this book.
AS
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Summary: mile high was low
Review: i found Kinky's work was boring. i waited for something to really happen. Blower was dumb,take a nixon was not funny and a few other goofy sayings trying to be funny but not getting it done. no wonder you wont get more than 3.50 for this book.
AS
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Summary: The dialogue is pure Kinky but the story lags behind others
Review: I got hooked on the series a few years ago with "A Case of Lone Star." I have read every one since and love them - Kinky, please keep writing. The wise cracks, the plot, and Kinky's Krazy Kast of Kharacters made that one a hoot - I loved every word. This edition still has the highly irreverent dialogue and nutsy group of irregulars but, still, there was something missing. The basic idea of the passports as McGuffen seemed way too unbelievable to catch and hold me. At any point, a more reasonable man would have collected them and dropped them on the desk of your local FBI agent. By being too clever in this one (and Kinky is very clever) he lost me and that's too bad. Still, I'll buy the next and next and next and read every one in the hope that Mr. Friedman hasn't run out of good ideas.
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Summary: The dialogue is pure Kinky but the story lags behind others
Review: I got hooked on the series a few years ago with "A Case of Lone Star." I have read every one since and love them - Kinky, please keep writing. The wise cracks, the plot, and Kinky's Krazy Kast of Kharacters made that one a hoot - I loved every word. This edition still has the highly irreverent dialogue and nutsy group of irregulars but, still, there was something missing. The basic idea of the passports as McGuffen seemed way too unbelievable to catch and hold me. At any point, a more reasonable man would have collected them and dropped them on the desk of your local FBI agent. By being too clever in this one (and Kinky is very clever) he lost me and that's too bad. Still, I'll buy the next and next and next and read every one in the hope that Mr. Friedman hasn't run out of good ideas.
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Summary: Cat Poop
Review: I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to read a lot about cat poop.
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Summary: Kinkstah Stinkstah
Review: I like Kinky, I really do. But I've had it up to here with his shtick. There's no meat on this bone. It has a thin plot along with the same old tired jokes and scenarios - the cat, the lesbians upstairs, the same crusty one-liners. Although Kinky finds himself in the middle of a bunch of incompetent terrorists, he still manages to find the time to take several afternoon naps. I think the Kinkster took a long siesta over his Smith-Corona at the time he wrote this masterpiece. Don't throw your money into the dumper. 23 bucks will get you a good cigar and maybe a black wooden puppet head.
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Summary: Kinky At His Finest
Review: I read Kinky Friedman mysteries not for plot but for the fresh, raunchy, philosophical whirlpools along the way. While Mile High Club doesn't have much plot, it's Kinky at his funniest and finest. Get it, read it, smoke a cigar, enjoy.
Rating:
Summary: Kinky At His Finest
Review: I read Kinky Friedman mysteries not for plot but for the fresh, raunchy, philosophical whirlpools along the way. While Mile High Club doesn't have much plot, it's Kinky at his funniest and finest. Get it, read it, smoke a cigar, enjoy.
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