Lucky Leonardo

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Summary: Send humor, drugs and lawyers
Review: As if Nabokov had written Desperate Housewives and changed the setting to the Boston burbs, which are colder, brainier, and more clever.

A supersonically fast and fun read that will transport you for X minutes (depending on your habits) to Canter's wonderfully clever, picaresque, and effervescent world of law firms, hi-tech, middle-aged sexual longing, casinos, and an ambient world where dazzling observation takes the place of gravity.
......a GREAT place to transport yourself to on a crowded airplane, lousy family event, or if you need great company on a Stairmaster.


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Summary: Tries too hard and way too much ....
Review: I read all the rave reviews about this book and was very excited at the prospect of a great weekend read. Instead, I thought it was a book that tried way too hard to be off beat and funny. There were so very many characters, many of them sketchy at best, and the organization of events was very jumpy. I was not at all pleased to have wasted my 11.95 on this one.

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Summary: Lucky Reader
Review: Okay, this is a very funny book-a Keystone Kops caper by a former Harvard Lampooner that joyfully leaps from one set of hijinks to the next. But, as they say on late-night TV, there's more: Attorney Canter provides a rich bag of tricks Author Canter and the tale is anchored in all kinds of legal madness. Leonardo Cook is a good soul-a warmly drawn character who is every bit as endearing as Michael Malone's Raleigh Whittier Hayes or John Kennedy's Ignatius J. Reilly-forever just a banana peel away from catastrophe. His tale is compelling and Lucky Leonardo is a more than just a bundle of laughs: It's a page-turner that grabbed me from the get-go right through to the stunning resolution.

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Summary: A Unique and Amusing View of Family Life
Review: This is a book with a style and sense of humor that are both original. The protagonist, a divorced pyschiatrist, starts out as a successful, golf-addicted man-in-demand, but quickly becomes entangled in an insider trading scandal during which he falls from grace and lands on a young Starbucks attendant, named Chrissy. But my words are insufficient. It is how Author Canter's words sing to you to about your own feelings and make you laugh out loud, even as the protagonist falls further and further from where we first found him and then inexplicably recovers the had of his wife. At the end of the book you will only want to know this: when is the next book coming?