Tried three more new authors (new to me) who write humourous fiction. If I am lucky I will get a whole new backlist to work through. If not, well maybe the obscure information will win me a trivia contest one day.
Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys had so much promise but ultimately didn't deliver. Young female lawyer kidnaps men who have been rude to her and then locks them in her basement to re-educate them. Her goal is to make them perfect gentlemen that will make women happy. Lessons include recognizing fashion by designer, relieving stress by singing into a hairbrush, and how to understand what a women is really saying when she talks. Throw in a murder (WHY?) and some vicious dogs (again WHY?) and the story goes off track. It wasn't even remotely dirty, and with a cover like that you thought it just might have been its saving grace. I probably will try one more of his backlist, because a T-Rex police detective is a premise I have to see.
The book blurb compared it to Douglas Adams and they were right, just not as good. Frogs from space settled the earth and eventually abandon it to their pet apes. Unfortunately one of genius frogs is using the earth as his play place in
Falling Sideways. One good thing was how he tied in the story of a princess kissing a frog.
Lastly I read
The High Impact Infidelity Diet. This gem is a quick read and details three couples wherein the wife is dealing with an obese husband. They promise them if they can get down to under 210 pounds (they all start at over 300) they can individually spend a night with a beautiful hooker one of the wives knows. This was made into a movie by Warner brothers in 2006 and it was so good they have decided not to release it until has finely aged like cheese.
Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys had so much promise but ultimately didn't deliver. Young female lawyer kidnaps men who have been rude to her and then locks them in her basement to re-educate them. Her goal is to make them perfect gentlemen that will make women happy. Lessons include recognizing fashion by designer, relieving stress by singing into a hairbrush, and how to understand what a women is really saying when she talks. Throw in a murder (WHY?) and some vicious dogs (again WHY?) and the story goes off track. It wasn't even remotely dirty, and with a cover like that you thought it just might have been its saving grace. I probably will try one more of his backlist, because a T-Rex police detective is a premise I have to see.
The book blurb compared it to Douglas Adams and they were right, just not as good. Frogs from space settled the earth and eventually abandon it to their pet apes. Unfortunately one of genius frogs is using the earth as his play place in Falling Sideways. One good thing was how he tied in the story of a princess kissing a frog.
Lastly I read The High Impact Infidelity Diet. This gem is a quick read and details three couples wherein the wife is dealing with an obese husband. They promise them if they can get down to under 210 pounds (they all start at over 300) they can individually spend a night with a beautiful hooker one of the wives knows. This was made into a movie by Warner brothers in 2006 and it was so good they have decided not to release it until has finely aged like cheese.
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Glad to hear that at least one of three was decent. I think I might read the falling sideways one anyway. And I am glad you finally updated your blog!
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