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Title: The Prisoner of Vandam Street : A Novel by Kinky Friedman ISBN: 0-7432-4602-0 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 08 March, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A malarious way to bring your interest to a fever pitch
Comment: Once again, Kinky Friedman gives us a much needed respite from the tedious news we could do without. This time he does it in a unique and entertaining manner that has Kinky flat on his back, more delirious than usual, and dependent upon that wonderful group of unconventional wanna be sleuths that we have come to know and love.
I love Kinky's work so much, and his terrific, if unconventional slant on life, that I could find a cook book by him entertaining and completely enchanting. I am well aware that behind that Texas wardrobe beats the heart of a poet, and the soul of a lovable and caring mystic. Genius is an overused word, but I don't think in Kinky's case you can avoid it. His interests are eclectic, and his knowledge varied. Don't let his demeanor fool you; this guy can do just about any damn thing he puts his mind to....and do it damn well
If you enjoy Kinky's work, please don't let the "intelectual elite" label you as a member of some mindless cult who follows some lemming-like troop over the cliff of mediocrity. He is so much more substantial, and it is a terrible shame that the boneheaded literati prefer the boring conventional over bright, inventive, and thought provoking.
Keep it up, Kinky, you are appreciated enormously by those of us who can tell the difference between assembly line drivel and the thought provoking gems you provide us. You make the mundane tolerable, and we love you for it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hilarious-Typical Kinky
Comment: While drinking at the Corner Bistro with his friend McGovern, Kinky Friedman starts shaking, mumbling and goes from hot to cold in an instant. He blacks out and comes to in a hospital. At first Kinky thinks McGovern slipped him a Mickey, but the symptoms continue. The Kinkster knows he is sick but it takes the doctor a while to figure out what is wrong with him. He suffers from a virulent form of malaria picked up when Kinky worked for the Peace Corps in Borneo.
His friends, the Village Irregulars offer to nursemaid him so the doctor discharges him with the provision that he stays in his apartment for six weeks. During one of his moments of lucidity, Kinky looks out the window and sees a man beating a woman until she starts bleeding. When he calls 911and the police go over to investigate they find an empty and unused warehouse and nobody on the second and fourth floor heard anything. Kinky is determined to prove that he is right and he uses the Village Irregulars as his eyes and ears with some very hilarious results.
Kinky Friedman is irreverent and witty as usual, insulting everyone and everything using blue humor so he doesn't sound like a racist (which he isn't). It's touching to see Kinky's misfits and society's rejects gather round in his hour of need and no one can doubt them for not believing Kinky since half the time he is hallucinating. The real star of THE PRISONER OF VANDAM STREET is the cat whose displeasure at the invasion of his territory by an occupying force is shown in a very definite way.
Harriet Klausner
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Title: Kill Two Birds & Get Stoned by Kinky Friedman ISBN: 006620979X Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Kinky Friedman's Guide to Texas Etiquette : Or How to Get to Heaven or Hell Without Going Through Dallas-Fort Worth by Kinky Friedman ISBN: 0060935359 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Last Car to Elysian Fields: A Novel by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0743245423 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Mr. Paradise : A Novel by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0060083956 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Cadillac Beach : A Novel by Tim Dorsey ISBN: 0060520469 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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