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Meanwhile Back at the Ranch - Kinky Friedman

dozen novels, without any sign that it will lose any of its punch and piquancy. Meanwhile Back at the Ranch (MBatR from here on) is vintage Friedman, a polished exposition of the formula he has made his own. The formula is half detective story, half semi-surrealistic comedy. The stories are all told in the first person and the leading character is, of course, none other than Kinky himself. Kinky fancies himself as Sherlock Holmes, and tends to address his sidekicks as Watson, but the impression conveyed is more of a cross between Philip Marlowe and Groucho Marx, with a few echoes of Johnny Cash (and maybe even Frank Zappa) thrown in for luck, if you can imagine such ...

Meanwhile Back at the Ranch - Kinky Friedman

dozen novels, without any sign that it will lose any of its punch and piquancy. Meanwhile Back at the Ranch (MBatR from here on) is vintage Friedman, a polished exposition of the formula he has made his own. The formula is half detective story, half semi-surrealistic comedy. The stories are all told in the first person and the leading character is, of course, none other than Kinky himself. Kinky fancies himself as Sherlock Holmes, and tends to address his sidekicks as Watson, but the impression conveyed is more of a cross between Philip Marlowe and Groucho Marx, with a few echoes of Johnny Cash (and maybe even Frank Zappa) thrown in for luck, if you can imagine such ...

Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola - Kinky Friedman

most important thing we d learn during our three years of studying was that we "ought never to have been born"! It was this teacher who assigned this novel by Kinky Friedman as part of a crime fiction module. I sensed, then, that the novel might be a little unusual and, boy, was I right! I had never heard of Kinky before I d read this book. Don t make the same mistake as I did and type kinky into your Google search as it will throw up all sorts of naughty links. Friedman is in fact an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humourist, political candidate and the founder of a animal sanctuary. A curious kind of guy, he started writing detective style novels in ...

Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola - Kinky Friedman

most important thing we d learn during our three years of studying was that we "ought never to have been born"! It was this teacher who assigned this novel by Kinky Friedman as part of a crime fiction module. I sensed, then, that the novel might be a little unusual and, boy, was I right! I had never heard of Kinky before I d read this book. Don t make the same mistake as I did and type kinky into your Google search as it will throw up all sorts of naughty links. Friedman is in fact an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humourist, political candidate and the founder of a animal sanctuary. A curious kind of guy, he started writing detective style novels in ...

Steppin' on a Rainbow - Kinky Friedman

help and hindrance from his friends, The Village Irregulars, has to date solved every one of his cases. ~~ For anyone new to Kinky Friedman, I should perhaps explain that he was the one-time leader of an outlandish 1970’s country rock band, who later re-invented himself as a successful and best selling crime novelist… [More detail, should you be interested, can be found in my opinion over in the Music Category] ~~ To fully appreciate the humour in these books, I recommend that you read them in publication date order, thus achieving a manageable level of recognition of both the cast of characters and the inter-related (and frequently repeated) ...

Steppin' on a Rainbow - Kinky Friedman

help and hindrance from his friends, The Village Irregulars, has to date solved every one of his cases. ~~ For anyone new to Kinky Friedman, I should perhaps explain that he was the one-time leader of an outlandish 1970’s country rock band, who later re-invented himself as a successful and best selling crime novelist… [More detail, should you be interested, can be found in my opinion over in the Music Category] ~~ To fully appreciate the humour in these books, I recommend that you read them in publication date order, thus achieving a manageable level of recognition of both the cast of characters and the inter-related (and frequently repeated) ...