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Summary: The Kinkster is back
Review: Kinky seems as irascible as he always has been. His language is filled with profanity and he tells more racialand sexual persuasion jokes than a card carrying KKK member. His outrageous behavior borders the cruel side of the line. What happened to the heart of gold personality bordering on sucker. He is irate over the hole in his ceiling caused by his most detestable upstairs neighbor Winnie Kate who runs a lesbian dance class. Winnie refuses to stop her activities as she loathes Kinky.Kinky decides to strike back at his foe. His devious plan begins with a fake threatening note that he shows to several of his buddies, the Village Irregulars. He cons each of them to play "Watson" to his "Holmes" and infiltrate Winnie's apartment to irritate her. They even bug Winnie's place, but that disturbs Kinky because he overhears a male threatening to harm her. It is one thing for the Kinkster to threaten the woman with bodily harm, but unacceptable for anyone else. Kinky worries that his game has turned deadly and he might need to intercede. SPANKING WATSON is the type of novel that readers will either totally love or absolutely trash. No one will remain neutral, which shows the talent of Kinky Friedman to make his audience react. Kinky the character remains irreverent as readers will consider his outlook either very droll or very sick similar to the reactions the audience had to the late Lenny Bruce. Watching Kinky pull his best Tom Sawyer on his friends is definitely entertaining regardless of taste. Fans of the series will take great pleasure with the return of the Kinkster. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: If you have to ask . . .
Review: Okay, I'll make this easy for you. This is KINKY FRIEDMAN. Now, that either makes you start chuckling, or it doesn't. As the man said: "If you have to ask, then don't bother."
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Summary: If you have to ask . . .
Review: Okay, I'll make this easy for you. This is KINKY FRIEDMAN. Now, that either makes you start chuckling, or it doesn't. As the man said: "If you have to ask, then don't bother."
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Summary: Better 'n S.J.
Review: The funniest book I have read in years. This book puts Kinky on a par with the great S.J. Perlman. Great belly laughs from his best writing yet.
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Summary: Better 'n S.J.
Review: The funniest book I have read in years. This book puts Kinky on a par with the great S.J. Perlman. Great belly laughs from his best writing yet.
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Summary: Gamier when ressurected?
Review: The Kinkster is indeed back. Reading about Kinky and the village irregulars is like hanging out with a bunch of old familiar mates, ( I'm English so I address everyone as 'Mate' just like Mick Brennan). The trouble is that these mates, after ten or eleven visits, are getting a little bit too familiar and their characters revealed as just a little sketchy and one-dimensional. My suggestion to Kinky would be to make Ratso the central character of the next adventure or somehow mix up the format a little bit. Otherwise things may go totaly Thatcher, (English for Nixon).
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Summary: Amusing but ultimately pointless
Review: This is a funny book. To deny that would be less than intelligent to put it mildly. However, its humor can't save it from being ultimately pointless and something of a time-waster. When you begin it, it seems very funny and accessible. The jokes about Vinnie and Gepetto, the constant usage of the phrase "passing lesbian" and the cat jokes are all funny. Truthfully, they never cease to be amusing, as do not the Jewish jokes. This book is amusing. However, what little plot there is soon becomes tiresome. You don't care. And you can't care. Funny as it is, it's really a waste of time.
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Summary: Don't Pick This One As Your First Kinky Friedman Book
Review: This is my first Kinky Friedman book. I know that there are a lot of people out there who really enjoy his book series, so I have to assume that he was just off when he wrote this one. Friedman tries way too hard to be witty and cleaver, the main story is slow and unsuspenseful, and the many characters who flit in and out of the story are poorly described. My guess is that they are recurring characters already known to Friedman fans and that the author didn't feel the necessity of fleshing them out for this particular book. Maybe it isn't necessary for the fans. For the uninitiated, however, it is. Some day I might try another, earlier one of his books.
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Summary: If Seinfeld Was a Cigar Chomping Whisky Swillin' Texan..
Review: Wanna bust a gut? Kinky is a master comic, and this stuff is FUNNY! Spanking Watson is an improbable tale of a bunch of misfit buddies put into perpetual shenanigans by a master practical joker. It's a quick, hilarious read. This is the kind of book for people who dig the kind of jokes you imagine Tommy Lee Jones would like. And if this ever gets made into a movie, TLJ is just the guy for Kinky's part.
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