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Title: P.S. Your Cat Is Dead by James Kirkwood ISBN: 0-312-32120-1 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 15 November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.91 (33 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: You will laugh, cry & realize this is what life is all about
Comment: If you can find this book, buy several copies, as they will disappear. People will borrow it, and you will never see it again; it is that good (I have lost three copies that way). When you read the cover description of the book ("It's New Year's Eve...") , you immediately realize that you have had bad days like that, and you want to know if his day was worse than yours (...it was). I have found this to be one of the funniest, most touching, " go for the gut" books I have ever read, and I recommend it to all! I just wish I could find another copy!
Rating: 5
Summary: To Be Read Over and Over
Comment: It's really a shame that this book is not currently being kept in print. This is one of those funny, heartwarming books that I find myself taking off the shelf every year or so.
James Kirkwood did a wonderful job of taking a seeming tragedy (the breakin of your home) and blending it with a series of life problems that places the main character in a total funk.
When the protagonist walks in during the apartment breakin, he's had it. Everything is wrong in his life and he goes over the top. Unafraid of the burglar, he ties him down to his kitchen counter and hold the burglar hostage.
The hysteria starts as he ties down the stripped down burglar and forces him to hear all of life's woes. The interchange is absolutely laugh out loud funny.
This great book will take you out of any slump you find yourself in. When things can't get much worse, maybe it's time to do some laughing! That's exactly the tonic for the main character, and it can be just as so for the reader.
Save this for a bad week! A wonderful anti-depressant!
Also highly recommended is James Kirkwood's "Good Times, Bad Times." A wonderful coming of age tale.
Rating: 4
Summary: A great read that will have you laughing out loud
Comment: The past few months have been terrible for James Zoole. His apartment's been robbed twice. His best friend Pete passed away. He was laid off from the play in which he had a lead role (and rehersals hadn't even started). His girlfriend Kate dumps him on New Year's Eve. And, Bobby Seale, his cat, died. What a way to bring in the new year!
Feeling angry and sad, Jimmy decides to hole up in his apartment and to not answer the phone, knowing that if he'd been robbed twice, the burglar was sure to come back again. Enter Vito Antenucci, a bisexual burglar who returns for a third robbery. They struggle, and Jimmy knocks Vito out, then ties him to the kitchen counter.
Throughout this New Year's Eve together, Jimmy discovers what he's been avoiding in his life and begins to understand that he and Vito aren't that different from each other in what they want from life. To Jimmy's surprise, he begins to find friendship with his captive.
A few unexpected interruptions from people in Jimmy's life help to liven up this dark comedy from one of the writers of "A Chrous Line." It's full of strong characters, even those with only minor roles such as Jimmy's Aunt claire, a rich spinster who sublty tries to control Jimmy's life, and Crazy Carmine, a drugged-out sex fanatic who's been trying to get into Jimmy's pants for years. It's the developing friendship between Jimmy and Vito that drives this story, though. I wanted them to get together at the end, either as friends or lovers, it didn't matter.
I laughed out loud while reading some of the passages. Though it was written in the 1970's, the humor is defintiely NOT dated. If you're looking for some light, fun reading, then this is the perfect book for you.
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Title: THERE MUST BE A PONY by James Kirkwood ISBN: 0440202388 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 02 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $102.00 |
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Title: Good Times, Bad Times by James Kirkwood ISBN: 0449204693 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 12 May, 1983 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Some kind of hero : a novel by James Kirkwood ISBN: B00005WWDX |
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Title: All Over Him : The Continuing Journals of Will Barnett by Ronald L. Donaghe ISBN: 0595269141 Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. Pub. Date: 10 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Uncle Sean : by Ronald L. Donaghe ISBN: 0595190146 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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