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Bezig met laden... The Stench of Honolulu: A Tropical Adventure (editie 2013)door Jack Handey
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I had much higher expectations because I love the "Deep Thoughts" from Jack Handey. This book was barely a plot strung together with mildly funny bits here and there. Mostly it just felt like an attempt to be silly but ended up feeling like a middle-school aged stream-of-consciousness story. Meh. ( ) A ludicrous little book. If you wondered how Jack Handey might handle the transition from the one-liners of Deep Thoughts to the long form of a novel, the answer is that he doesn't even try. This is a pile of loosely connected jokes and quips, and as such, it's old-timey comedy-writing few people bother with anymore. But what jokes and quips they are. The opening line alone would be a stage classic, and while not all that follows is A material, there's just so much of it, it adds up to a nonstop chucklefest. At a time when the dominant forms of comedy are situational, character-based, or just "awkward", it's good to see someone writing plain old unexpected punchlines. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The legendary Deep Thoughts and New Yorker humorist Jack Handey is back with his very first novel-a hilarious, absurd, far-flung adventure tale. The Stench of Honolulu Are you a fan of books in which famous tourist destinations are repurposed as unlivable hellholes for no particular reason? Read on! Jack Handey's exotic tale is full of laugh-out-loud twists and unforgettable characters whose names escape me right now. A reliably unreliable narrator and his friend, who is some other guy, need to get out of town. They have a taste for adventure, so they pay a visit to a relic of bygone days-a travel agent-and discover an old treasure map. She might have been a witch, by the way. Our heroes soon embark on a quest for the Golden Monkey, which takes them into the mysterious and stinky foreign land of Honolulu. There, they meet untold dangers, confront strange natives, kill and eat Turtle People, kill some other things and people, eat another thing, and discover the ruins of ancient civilizations. As our narrator says, "The ruins were impressive. But like so many civilizations, they forgot the rule that might have saved them: Don't let vines grow all over you." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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