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Updated: 11/26/02 -- The Deed is Done and the Critics are Talking...
Consider the warped aura; humor escapes through the cracks.
James T. Roberts, Beaver Lake Spiritual Advisor
I give a 95... It had a great beat and was easy to dance to. I would buy it.
Robert Neidert, Noted Rock & Roll Connoisseur
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The second book of the Northwest Arkansas trilogy
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"COZENAGE - Beware The Scam"
A Comic-Adventure
If Tim Dorsey honked the political satire horn a little harder, this might be something like he would do it, provided that he could get his tongue that far back in his cheek.
Zany, whacked-out characters, carried over from the author's first book, the irreverent Hog Lick, AR, are rejoined to connive creative con games, scams and schemes over a myriad of unsuspecting but generally deserving folk.
The irrepressible Stanley and his odiferous brother, Roscoe, catch up with Boddie, the questionable lawman, and Jasper, the curmudgeon, to build a scam preying upon outbound corporate crooks and eventually wind up with a whole town to accommodate some already convicted as well. Tinky, aka JB_E, conjoins with Moanika, the devil with the blue dress, to scam some hard-drinking Canadians and refugee executives before moving on to the Capitol to fry some much bigger fish.
Meanwhile, Cousin Rhodenta visits Lulu downstate in the sometimes serious tale of the Stag Bar. Aubrey, Cisco and the Humpster are but a few of the eccentric denizens thereabouts betwixt the Atomic Plant and the new prison.
Stanley provides economics lessons to the geezers of Beau Vue while lovely Sister Mary Lamb furnishes solace to Roscoe and other in-need elders there.
The unpredictable finale flourishes to international deception involving ex-Senator Ichabod Muskrat and his new sidekick, Packy, the failed but now converted terrorist.
Admittedly, this is 'literature-lite', perhaps less filling than a heavier tome, but still tasty and delicious, peppered with humor and seasoned with the spices of life. Full of earthy, humorous, down-home cynicism. If you are prone to grin at the politically incorrect, then this one just might be for you.
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While you're waiting...
One of my favorite authors has a new one out that I really enjoyed.
"LAMB: The Gospel According To Biff" is an irreverent accounting of the missing first thirty years via Christ's childhood buddy, Levi known as Biff.
"The Island of the Sequined Love Nun" and "The Lust Lizzard of Melancholy Cove" are also earlier favorites.
Enjoy!
Visit the "COZENAGE" website now
And some other funny reading...
Tim Dorsey is a hoot to read as well... Very funny Florida fiction...Try "Florida Road Kill", "Orange Crush" and "The Hammerhead Motel".
Carl Hiassen writes about happenings down that way too... I like all of his stuff, but his earlier books are more my style than his latest effort, "Basket Case". Try "Double Whammy", "Sick Puppy", "Lucky You", and "Strip Tease" which was much funnier than the movie.
Please let me know what favorites you recommend that I might be missing?
E-mail your favorite books!
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Scenes from the New Book
You may have seen some of these before...
But not really at the Stag...
They've not used classy coasters like these for years...
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Rhodenta Sue Blukirk
Here is one of the characters from the new book...She's visiting Lulu and looking for Roscoe somewhere in southern Arkansas
I'm sure you've seen her before somewhere...
De'ja vu again, huh?
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