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The Stench Of Honolulu: A Tropical Adventure (2013)

by Jack Handey(Favorite Author)

3.31 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1455522384 (ISBN13: 9781455522385)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Grand Central Publishing

review 1: Three words: Best. . . Adventure. . . Novel . . .Ever! Take that Clive Cussler! And yes, I know that's four words. The "Ever" part was an afterthought and I'm too lazy to delete it. This is like Indiana Jones had an idiot half-brother who decided to go off and have his own adventure after losing a staring contest with a squirrel. And who knew there were crocodiles and komodo dragons and pirates in Hawaii? That's definitely not in their tourism ads.Seriously though, if you need a good chuckle this is the book for you.
review 2: One of the silliest, most joyfully goofy books I've ever read. I laughed out loud several times reading this (not on EVERY PAGE, as the lunatic Ian Frazier says in his pull quote on the front cover. You ok, Ian?), and was pleasantly surpr... moreised at how much enjoyed a book that only has the merest semblance of a plot. I love the dry, bold idiot of a main character Handey has created here (known only to us as "Wrong Way Slurps," a name he made up for himself) and the completely brash way he treats his well-meaning companion Don. I loved how each section basically served as a kind of episode or sketch or something, as Slurps & Don barrel their way through a Honolulu that couldn't be further from the true one. There is very little realism here, and who cares. Realism is bullshit anyway.If you're a fan of Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett, you're gonna like this. It falls in the same category of "bumbling doof stumbles from scenario to scenario, inexplicably avoiding death," making just about every single joke that could be made in the process. The whole ordeal here is ultimately kind of pointless, which in and of itself makes a joke about narrative structure that I thought was smarter than it appears to be.All that said, the lack of structure can get a little out of control at times, with Handey just kind of spinning off into whatever direction he feels like. I guess some deep part of me does cling to structure, because I am human and need to be told what to think and feel. That little bit of missing constraint may have brought this into being one of my favorite books of all time, but as is, it's just very good. I certainly hope Handey finds the time for more of these. less

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