Dead Solid Perfect
Review
“Dan Jenkins is a comic genius. “–Don ImusPraise for Dead Solid Perfect:”This is vintage Jenkins–profane, outrageous, and sharp-eyed in its parody of the overblown world of big-time golf. It is also distinguished by a climactic golf match that may be the funniest scene he’s ever written. “–Newsweek”Dan Jenkins is the nearest thing to Ring Lardner this generation has ever seen. No one has captured the essential lunacy of the twentieth-century sports (and TV) scene as accur…
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This review is from: Dead Solid Perfect (Paperback)
Although this book did not surpass “You’ve Gotta Play Hurt” in my estimation, Jenkins is no less racy and raunchy and hilarious in Dead Solid Perfect. I have no doubt that this book could have been written this year and still rings true, although maybe not all the dope smoking. Like many of Jenkins’ books, the story revolves around the Texas mystique and a man who can ace his avocation but fail miserably in his personal life. This book mixes enough politics, gambling, golf and sex to become one of the funniest books out there. Jenkins’ style is love-him-or-hate-him, but you if like this one, you’ll be searching more used bookstores for other books that are out-of-print.
This review is from: Dead Solid Perfect (Paperback)
An incredibly funny account of golf, shapely adorables, gambling hustles and general all around characters. I laughed out loud so hard I cried a couple of times. The bit about Kenny Lee Puckett and Spec Reynolds creating a fictional West Texas town in order to bet on the football team and try and pull one over on their bookie is pure genius(dont worry, I gave nothing away). In todays smoothed over, politically correct world this throwback is actually quite unlike anything you will read. I have read this book twice I liked it so much. Order one used if you cant get it new.