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LOST BALLS is a unique and colorful look at the game of golf from the perspective of the under-celebrated wayward shot. Charles Lindsay's photographs offer a humorous and inquisitive foray into the hazards where golf balls are lost-rough, woods, bunkers, and wetlands-as well as unexpected encounters with wildlife on and off the green. An avid golfer with plenty of experience losing balls, Lindsay photographs his way to the heart of the game with a light touch and an eye for telling details. In the process, he discovers balls ravaged by golfers, gators, and foxes-and lost for over a century.
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The best coffee table book in the house.......2007-07-13
This book's photographs are absolutely brilliant! I first saw the book walking through a store and picked it up only to open up to a page where a golf ball was stuck in a pile of poo. I was flipping pages before you knew it and every shot had me smiling, laughing, reminiscing and just really enjoying the photos. If you are a golfer or going to be buying this book for a golfer I am sure they will get as much enjoyment out of it as I have. Everyone comes into our home and I catch them flipping pages on the book and enjoying it. So don't pass this book up, buy it now!
For every golfer.......2007-06-27
I gave my husband Lost Balls for Father's Day and he absolutely loved it. My 16 year old son and I both enjoyed it as well. This book has beautiful pictures - the photography is excellent - that capture some incredible and impossible lies. The scenes are lovely and make one appreciate golf as a form of relaxation. The many precarious positions that are captured make one appreciate golf as an obsession. For those who love and hate this game, this book will be enjoyed.
A book for every golfer.......2007-03-20
I bought one for a friend and another for myself. If you play
golf, you think that maybe the results of some of your own
golf shots may not be so bad. Even if you don't play golf,
the pictures are funny and interesting (as long as it is someone
else's ball). Well worth the money.
Cover misleading.......2007-02-04
The cover indicated unusual scenes on the golf course. The other monthly pictures were rather ordinary.
Great photos.......2007-01-10
I bought this book as a gift for a friend, but ended up sharing it with various family before wrapping it up. It was also the hit of the party when it WAS opened. Very entertaining and a book easy to pick up and look at more than once. A hit for golfers or those who enjoy a photo with a message.
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Lawrence Block, Simon Brett, Ken Bruen, Christopher Coake, Stephen Collins, Tom Franklin, Jonathan Gash, Steve Hamilton, H.R.F. Keating, Laura Lippman, Bradford Morrow, Ian Rankin, John Sandford, William G. Tapply, and John Westermann, along with introductory comments by Otto Penzler, deliver up an ace anthology of original short stories that mix murder and mystery on the fairway. This collection is sure to appeal to sports fans and those eager to read stories by the most celebrated authors in the mystery genre.
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Good, Wicked Fun!.......2006-07-21
When you assemble a group of the world's foremost writers of any genre, you're bound to have a winner, and Otto Penzler has one in Murder in the Rough. Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master, Lawrence Block, shows the dangers of routing a curmudgeon out of his rut in "Welcome to the Real World." Pulitzer Prize winner, John Sandford gives us a glimpse inside the head of a highly determined young woman who redefines "goal oriented" with his "Lucy Had a List." Ken Bruen's "Spittin Iron" is a tad dark, even for my morbid taste. "The Man Who Didn't Play Golf" by Simon Brett will amuse golf widows. (Buy your golfer hubby the book and stick the bookmark there.)
But my personal favorite is "The Secret" by John Westermann. Former cop, turned author, Westermann is known for his comic novels about the seedy side of law enforcement on Long Island. The chuckle-per-paragraph, the quirky characters, and the quality of Westermann's writing will delight the non-golfer, as well as the fairway-obsessed.
In his story, the membership of the luxurious, expensive Le Club Fantastique consists of "the normally deplored" nouveau riche of the Hampton set, "...dot com billionaires...and a Pakistani newsstand operator who won Powerball," who "pay dearly to feel good about themselves." And while these wildly wealthy outcasts are impressing themselves on a course built for ease, bragging about their new-found fortunes, swilling booze, and swapping wives, one of their least illustrious members goes missing. He turns up, of course, in the...well...you'll see. And laugh.
Told from the point of view of an assistant pro named Jay, who is up to no good himself, the story moves quickly and keeps you guessing. Oh...and the "Secret?" The one tip that pros take to their graves, the one that will change your game forever? Well, I ain't tellin'. This story alone is worth the price of the book.
G.A. McKevett
(author of the Savannah Reid Mysteries)
Fun but they are writers, not golfers!.......2006-07-07
This book is for murder mystery lovers who like golf--but don't take it all that seriously. Fifteen authors, who are better at writing murder mysteries than golf stories, each contribute a short story: a murder mystery with golf in it somewhere.
To say that golf has to be found in it somewhere is a stretch, because one murder is built around miniature golf. The real golf enthusiasts will wince at some of the obvious violations of the rules of golf that make the murder impossible--or at least highly unlikely. However the average golfer may never even notice the difference.
I am a passionate golfer who likes murder mysteries, so for me this was a march through each story, thinking that the next would be better. Sometimes it was--the best in the book in my opinion was "Lucy Has a List" by John Sandford. Often it wasn't.
I really liked Stephen Collins' (of Seventh Heaven fame) contribution, "Water Hazard," right until the end. The suspense was good, plenty of red herrings to throw you off and keep you guessing, plus a last-minute switch that you don't see coming. But then if you're a keen golfer, there's a breech of the rules that just couldn't have happened in the fictional round of a woman's major...and still have the protagonist win. But for most readers it will be a small thing.
Armchair Interviews says: If you like a murder with golf somewhere in the mix, this book will be a good distraction. Just suspend judgment and enjoy the entertainment, because that's why the stories were written.
Thank you, Otto Penzler!.......2006-06-26
This volume is as much fun as you'd expect, with contributions from favorites like Lawrence Block and Bradford Morrow ,but the real gem here is the novella "His Mission," by Christopher Coake, a writer we're lucky to have.
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PGA Tour pro Jack Austin promised former caddy and surrogate son Nash Henley he would help him find his biological father. But before Nash and his father are ever reunited, Owen Henley is murdered--and Nash's dream of knowing his real father dies with him. Now Nash wants to know who his father was and why he was killed. And Jack intends to keep his promise.
In Bad Lie, readers see why Mystery Scene calls Austin "the perfect narrator, observant but not omnipotent, confident, but painfully aware of his flaws." Jack is coming off his first PGA Tour victory and striving to reach golf's top echelon. But Nash's request leads Jack on a tour of Owen Henley's past and into an international smuggling scheme.
Plot twists abound in Bad Lie. Readers follow Austin from the fairways of the PGA Tour to a foursome on a wooded golf course in northern Maine. There, the stakes exceed any purse played for on tour, and with a single gunshot, the Jack Austin series changes forever.
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Enjoyable golf mystery.......2006-06-03
Golf pro Jack Austin wants to win another golf tournament. He's won one major in his ten years as a pro and wants more. But when his friend Nash learns that his father was tortured and killed, Jack has got to help. He's done his best to be a substitute father for Nash, but Nash has always maintained a fantasy that he'd reconnect, that he could rediscover the perfect father that his memory holds. As they investigate the murdered man, though, an ugly picture develops. Owen Henley was involved with drugs, and had a connection with a major drug operator in the New England area. Digging into Owen's history exposes Jack to people who don't want anyone looking at what they're doing--people who will kill anyone, including young children, to keep the scrutiny away.
Jack's investigation has to share time with his golf, but it doesn't take long before his problems start to spill over on the golf course.
With his concern for his young daughter, and his affection for Nash, the other players on the circuit, and his beautiful wife, Jack Austin makes a sympathetic character. Nash's fantasies tear at him because he recognizes that they simply cannot be achieved, and would not have been achieved had any reconciliation taken place. The theme of protecting children runs through the story--with Jack's happy childhood in dramatic juxtaposition to Nash's tragic upbringing.
Author John R. Corrigan brings the game of professional-level golf to life. Jack is completely convincing as a golfer, caught up in a combination of workouts, ritual magic, and philosophy in his attempt to beat the talented field and win another golf championship. Corrigan does a fine job with the mystery as well, planting clues as to the killer without making it too obvious who actually done-it. Of course, by the end, Owen's murder is only one of the many problems that Jack and his friends must face.
Even if you're not a golf fan, you'll enjoy BAD LIE. I'm happy to recommend this mystery.
John Corrigan Just Gets Better and Better.......2006-01-23
In golf another term for a "bad lie" is "rub of the green." I am not sure of it's derivation although I am pretty sure it's an old Scottish expression meaning "you figure your way out of this on your own - you get no help."
That is pretty much what is facing PGA Tour Pro Jack Austin as he undertakes to fulfill a promise to his surrogate son, Nash Henley to help him find his biological father.
That doesn't sound like an undertaking that would be fraught with danger and even death, but as it turns out, it is all that and more.
One of the things I like about this series is that while Jack Austin is a PGA Tour golfer, that fact does not dominate the story, but is very nicely woven into it's fabric with much factual information as well as vignettes which have a ring of authenticity to them.
That Jack Austin has managed to have a career that has now lasted several years on the PGA Tour is in itself remarkable given the outside distractions he has had to endure. However, Corrigan makes it all plausable.
A note on the book jacket compares the author favorably to Robert B. Parker and Dick Francis. He is a much better writer than Parker, but as I have thought about it, the allusion to Francis works for me. John Corrigan's books about Jack Austin are as much about golf as Francis's were about horse racing. They both have interesting characters, pay attention to the details of the sport that they use for a background and spin stories that keep you turning the pages.
I see no point in outlining the plot. What you really need to know is that if you like a nice mystery, enjoy good writing and every so often tee it up you will most likely find this author well worth your time. Teeing it up isn't required, however. I never rode a race horse, but I read all of Francis's novels. I have read all of John Corrigan's also. I hope he has as long a run.
Pro Plus More!!.......2005-11-06
In "Bad Lie," John Corrigan's latest and finest book featuring pro-golfer Jack Austin, the author provides tournament-winning prose, plotting and character development. The skillfully crafted ending surprised even this voracious (three or four novels per week) consumer of fiction! Players and lovers of golf have already provided favorable reviews of Corrigan's knowledge of the game and the realties of life on the pro tours. Being neither a player nor lover of the game, I shall confine my comments to matters that I care about. What impresses me most about "Bad Lie" is Corrigan's insights into and sensitivities to the realties of life for those of his characters who deviate from the stereotypical image of golfers, attendants and fans as being predominantly white, Anglo-Saxon, heterosexual, upper or upper-middle class, dominant males. A major character in "Bad Lie" is a woman with two children and a militarily-disabled husband to care for at home on her "Wal-Mart Associate" cash-register attendant's salary. Jack Austin accepts and treats his journalist wife, Lisa, as an equal in every respect (as well he should, since she is). They have adopted an African-American son, born and raised on the hard streets of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Jack's caddy is gay and one of his best pro-golfer friends is a "fallen" Catholic priest who innocently attracts women like bees to honey.
In "Bad Lie," John Corrigan indisputably proves his extraordinary talent as a writer, his love and knowledge of golf, and most of all his humanity!
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Good Bounces & Bad Lies: The Autobiography of Ben Wright
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You've got to give this to former CBS golf analyst Ben Wright: he can sure tell a story, and the further he shoves his soft-spiked foot into his mouth, the better the stories. His anecdotal autobiography flits back and forth between idolatry and wickedness, and at times his pen has no governor at all. Case in point: Wright idolized Ben Hogan. He even went AWOL from the British army in 1953 "shamelessly, though without a trace of guilt," he admits, because it was the only way he could get off base to see Hogan win the Open at Carnoustie. (It's hard to quarrel with that.) After teeing up several tales that firmly ensconce Hogan on his pedestal, Wright finally veers off this way: "These stories illustrate the kind of perfection, dedication and respect with which Gary McCord"--Wright's fellow CBS analyst, and a pretty funny guy in his own right--"was wholly unfamiliar." Fore! Wright then proceeds to launch into a tale of introducing McCord to Hogan, Hogan humiliating McCord when he finds out McCord's been on tour for 17 years and has no victories, and Wright, who clearly detests McCord, getting to gloat, "I told you so."
Wright likes to gloat; he does a lot of it in Good Bounces, and he's awfully entertaining--if somewhat small--when he does. He's also entertaining on the intricacies and personalities of CBS's golf broadcasts, and what an analyst must go through when he criticizes a player. When Wright kept chastising Peter Jacobsen's atrocious putting, Jacobsen claimed he'd exorcised those woes by mentally imaging Wright being hoisted from the TV tower by a helicopter and flown into outer space. Which is about where Wright ultimately wound up when he hooked his career into the drink with some out-of-bounds comments about women golfers, breasts, and lesbianism in 1995. He still offers a bagful of excuses for the incident that badly tarnished him, but he does treat it with appropriate seriousness and contrition. He makes no excuses, though, for the alcoholism that actually sunk him. Given the public nature of his disgrace, Good Bounces is something of a mulligan for Wright. As both raconteur and provocateur, he's made a pretty good shot of it. --Jeff Silverman
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One of golf’s preeminent commentators with more than fifty years of experience, Ben Wright relates the wealth of experiences he’s gained from writing and broadcasting about the world’s greatest golfers and courses, and his take on the infamous interview that cost him his twenty-three-year career as a golf announcer with CBS Sports.
In Good Bounces and Bad Lies, Wright brings the reader into the world of professional golf—and professional golf broadcasting—depicting in equal measure the game’s grace and tradition as well as its often raucous behind-the-scenes character. Wright tells of the ups and downs of his expansive career, relating dozens of funny and outrageous anecdotes along the way. Having known such greats as Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Seve Ballesteros, Tom Watson, and many other prominent figures in the world of golf, Wright gives the true insider’s perspective. Although controversial, Wright is an entertaining and engaging figure who personifies the elegance and audacity of the game of golf. This Bison Books edition features a new afterword by the author.
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Good bounces, Bad read.......2006-07-24
Wright's tales are stupendous, but to the point of being absurd. This is one of the few books in years that I finally just put down. He defects from the army to watch Hogan, his house is reduced to rubble but he and his sister miraculously survive; his overzealous buddy grabs a waiter and pulls him outside to beat him senseless...sheesh. I liked Wright as a commentator but leave this book on the shelf.
No secret is sacred - no one is spared.......2002-11-27
Wright's book basically, after he gets through some obligatory stories about golf in England when he was young, is a tell all about most of the peole he has worked with at CBS Sports. If it is not a tell all, it will do 'til one comes around. Most of the problem is with alcohol...we hear of interventions, wild partys, stupid episodes of behavior...yet through it all...even after an intervention which sent him to Betty Ford...one of the staff told him before he left that he was not an alcoholic but an abuser of alcohol. What that distinction is remains lost to me but was understood by Ben. No matter. You wonder how CBS managed to produce a cohesive telecast of the Masters or any other tournament they were assigned to based on Ben's recollections. He also ran into some world travelers that he thought behaved badly. It is a "tell all" from one who is still in the dog house for telling all about his opinion of women's golf and the difference betwen the men's game and theirs. No matter that he had that just right,,,he was PC'd out and the world of golf broadcasting is the worse for it. I miss him behind the microphone, but the book goes a bit long.
All the bounces were good.......2001-12-28
Ben Wright does a superb job in taking mere golfing mortals behind the scenes of some famous, and some not so famous, tournaments to give an insight into LIFE in the golfing world. It is a page turner that had me howling with laughter as he strips bare the mystique behind both golf broadcasting and some of the peripheral characters that add to the colour of the sport. Of course in the true style that has endeared him to so many he also takes a few swipes at some brighter lights in the business of golf. Wright has an obvious deep love for the game but he does not let sentimentality get in the way of a good story. I am sure that he must have a stock of untold tales waiting to be let out of the closet and I look forward to the next installment from this very funny, very English and very lovable raconteur.
A GREAT Read.......2001-05-02
CBS, BRING THIS GUY BACK! If you want a good read that will absolutely make you CRY with laughter. This is the book for you...And you don't have to be a Golf fan to enjoy it. I always figured that stranged things happened behind the camera, but his stories will absolutely crack you up. It is definitely a MUST buy.
Intimate sharing of a life in golf.......2001-01-20
Wright is as witty and colorful as his broadcasts were. Gives an image of broadcasting which most of us aren't aware of. We sense the morals and ethics of these public individuals are different. Appreciated even more his love for the game and extreme pain the LPGA comments have brought upon him. Image is everything!
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Badger got up one morning feeling very grumpy. "Humph!" Badger said to himself. What was the point of being in a bad mood if nobody noticed? he thought. So Badger headed out, slamming the door behind him. Badger spreads his bad mood far and wide, greeting all his friends with angry, rude remarks that put them in bad moods, too. A comical, cautionary tale for anyone who has ever gotten up on the wrong side of the bed.
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Playing A Bad Lie
John K
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Golf - The Democrat Way:
* Where errant shots are never your fault
* The better you play, the more you pay
* Where different rules apply to different players
* Where if you don't like your score, you can recount it again and again
* Where the only hazards are the people who play by the rules
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Not Just for the Old Enough to Vote Crowd.......2004-08-21
Upon receiving our copies of Playing a Bad Lie (one for me, one for my college age daughter), I started reading it. I found the story line very creative. Sean, a 12 year old, has been listening to his teacher, a dyed in the wool Democrat, and announces to his father that he is considering become a Democrat. His father tries to postpone the inevitable father-son politics talk, pointing out to Sean that he is a bit young for the complicated topic, so they can enjoy their game of golf and each other's company.
Sean persists and dad, Alex, decides to use a creative method for instructing his son about those things Sean's teacher left out of her glowing reports of Democrats - the issues. They will pretend they are Democrats for the day. The analogies, comparisons and obvious contradictions this method raised throughout their 18 holes made the reading enjoyable and laughable.
Due to my busy lifestyle, I would read a Hole (Chapter) here and a Hole there leaving the book lying all over the house as I was called away. But, something strange started happening in my house. I would hear laughter coming from other rooms, rooms where my 14 year old and 17 year old were sitting alone. What did I discover? They were sitting and reading Playing a Bad Lie and thoroughly enjoying themselves and John K's witty comparisons and revelations. Sure the 17 year old likes to read, but the 14 year old boy reads only technical manuals for guitars and amps and the schoolwork he assigned! What a joy to find he was enjoying reading about politics.
Consider getting a copy for every member of your household old enough to read it. As Alex found out, though he thought Sean was a bit young for this talk, it was more than high time!
An Excellent and Timely Analogy.......2004-08-15
While mixing sports with politics can often lead to undesired results, John K.'s Playing A Bad Lie cleverly exposes "the greatest flaws, hypocrisies, and dangers of today's Democratic Party" through a simple round of golf between a father (Alex) and son (Sean).
John K. brilliantly metaphors the flaws in liberal ideology into 18 holes of golf, covering many of the most concerning issues that face us today. It is quite amazing how issues like tort reform, taxation, affirmative action, welfare, foreign policy, and even abortion are analogized from the tee to the green. You might be asking yourself, "How do all these subjects relate to golf?" The lessons learned by young Sean on the golf course, while they may seem outrageous and crazy to him, are wonderfully creative examples about the Democrat way of thinking. The only thing farfetched about the conversations between Alex and Sean is not in the application of Democratic thinking to the rules of golf, but the notion that Democrats find that way thinking to be right for America.
Playing A Bad Lie is a highly entertaining story that shows how the game of golf would be bastardized if Democrats applied to it the same policies they wish to impose on America, and proves why we must ensure that they are never allowed to do so.
Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, it is worth ordering a copy of Playing A Bad Lie.
SUPERB.......2004-08-04
Wow, can't wait to read volume II!!!! I highly suggest this book to ALL citizens, both conservative and liberal, moderate, WHATEVER!! It's stimulating, interesting, and humorous. What else could one ask for?
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“What fools are we? Blindly living our lives caught up in trivial and material things, all the while never knowing who or what is going to destroy us and change who we are forever,” Sheridyn reflected sadly through her tears. To Sheridyn F. Lane, everything about her life was awesome. The daughter of a successful doctor and a former runway model, along with her brother, she lived a life of privilege in a magnificent estate called Winterbrook Springs. A confident and intelligent beauty who always seemed to have the world at her fingertips, she naturally expected her sixteenth birthday to be awesome too. Yet before she even had a chance to blow out the candles on her birthday cake, horrible secrets and lies would turn her awesome life to awesomely bad in the blink of an eye.
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Great for teens.......2007-08-14
Girls in their teens would especially like to read this book. The overall theme I took away from it is that everyone (no matter how perfect they seem) has secrets and struggles. Sheridyn stays strong through family disruption and chaos, and is a great role model.
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Sticks Johnson: Bad Lies & Strange Bounces
Keith Larsen
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STICKS JOHNSON, BAD LIES and STRANGE BOUNCES is the tale of a single, momentous round of golf, one played like none other has been played in many a long while. It is a tale filled with comic turns, incredible characters and a climax that is both satisfying and surprising. In short, it is a round of golf filled, like Sticks Johnson's life, with bad lies and strange bounces. The match is for the Club Championship. Sticks has endured the shame and frustration of a fifteen-year run of second place finishes, losing every year to the same player, an idiot-savant by the name of Gus Giovanni. Gus has ruled all these years as Club Champion. Sticks knows that he has great skill as a golfer but it is the mental aspects of the game that puts him at a disadvantage. In order to finally put his ghosts to rest, Sticks visits Doctor Eugene Everhardt, perhaps the greatest sports psychologist of his time. While mortified at the thought of actually seeking psychological counseling, Sticks is determined that this time it will be different. This time, he will win the championship. Sticks' progress on the course is followed by an amusing ragtag gallery of misfits, from the cross-dressing Colonel Mack (MacArthur) Sanderson, a former United States Marine Corps Special Operations Officer and Sister Mary Harriet, a Catholic nun with the worst temper at the club who once punched out the club manager over an incorrect lunch bill and was suspended from the club for six months to Moshe Bernstein, an orthodox Jewish rabbi who plays every Sunday with his regular Hassidic foursome in their traditional garb. These, along with many other colorful characters, make the eighteen holes of golf played in this Club Championship the most delightful eighteen holes of golf we have enjoyed in a long, long while.
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Sticks Johnson.......2005-09-21
This is the funniest golf book I have ever read. The mental side of golf is amazing. Many zany characters dealing with the mental side of the game.
Golf, golf and more golf
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True Lies: The Book of Bad Advice
Mariko Tamaki
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The unsuspecting public is in for a treat as Mariko Tamaki shares her love, joy, humour and pain in a clever and sensitive social commentary on everything and everyone. True Lies is about places, spaces, people, events - complaints and kudos and the things in between. Her gift as an orator and writer lies in her capacity to disarm using humour as a great leveler. True Lies succeeds where few books have: it simultaneously provokes laughter and is thought-provoking.
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Entertaining!.......2002-08-10
Bottom line: this book is *funny*.
It takes quite a bit to get me to laugh out loud, in real life and particularly in print, but this book did it.
My enjoyment was probably enhanced by the fact that I live in the same city as the author and so have personal experience to back up some of her stories with.
Though it is a fair bit of $$$ for a very short read (a couple hours) and definitely not for one easily offended or searching for serious social commentary, this book is worth reading.
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