My Lucky Star : A Novel

My Lucky Star : A Novel
by Joe Keenan

My Lucky Star : A Novel
List Price: $24.95
Our Price: $3.97
You Save: $20.98 (84%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $2.93 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions


(Click here)
Buy this book at online book store in your country
Canada | UK | Germany | France

Book Summary Information

Author: Joe Keenan
Edition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-01-25
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Amazon Remainders Account

Book Reviews of My Lucky Star : A Novel

Book Review: fun!
Summary: 5 Stars

I was in a bookstore browsing the sale table and came upon My Lucky Star. I'd never heard of Joe Keenan. I was in for a surprise. Not since reading Auntie Mame all those years back in High School, and then some work by Kurt Vonnegut, did I laugh so frequently while reading a book.
The characters in MLS, for the most part, annoyed me. Yet there was something I liked about all of them and that kind of annoyed me too. And, like Gregory Maguire, this Joe Keenan had me adding quite a few words to my homemade dictionary.
I usually don't like descriptions of sex, but JK makes it so situationally outrageous that it works. He manages to have pithy irony in the most unsuspecting places, although I was surprised at how far he went with it toward the end.
Speaking of which--The handsome and aloof Stephen Donato reminds me of the biggest movie "superstar" of all time as he cruises along, denying rumors of homosexuality, only to be caught in a web of Phillip's tomfoolery that forces him to show everyone the money (and so much more) as Clair pulls off her own mission impossible. I'm sure the similarity to any living person is coincidental.
Joe Keenan is clever beyond description. Some of the reviews for this book go on, ad tedium, about what's wrong with it. But I seriously doubt that any of the reviewers could write just one sentence as witty as the countless lines that roll out of JK's very lucky pen.

Summary of My Lucky Star : A Novel

"Joe Keenan fills MY LUCKY STAR with the kind of zanytwists he perfected in Frasier." --TIME OUT When a pair of luckless New York writers gets lured to Hollywood and hitsit big virtually overnight, mayhem on a grand scale ensues--a vortex ofhilarity that encompasses everything from a Beverly Hills spa catering tostars' most secret needs to a blackmailing scheme that threatens to disruptthe Oscars. This enormously entertaining, exuberantly naughty novel sendsup Hollywood pretense higher than it's ever been sent before.
Book Subjects
Most talked about in Best Humor Books of 2007 (As I can remember them)
My Lucky Star : A Novel ImageMy Lucky Star : A Novel
by Joe Keenan
Amazon Remainders Account; Published: 2006-01-25; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.90
Price in other shops: $24.95
The Best Political Cartoons of the Year, 2008 Edition (Best Political Cartoons of the Year) ImageThe Best Political Cartoons of the Year, 2008 Edition (Best Political Cartoons of the Year)
by Daryl Cagle, Brian Fairrington
Que; Published: 2007-11-17; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.83
Price in other shops: $16.99
I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski: Life, The Big Lebowski, and What Have You ImageI'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski: Life, The Big Lebowski, and What Have You
by Bill Green, Ben Peskoe, Scott Shuffitt, Will Russell
Bloomsbury USA; Published: 2007-08-21; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.89
Price in other shops: $16.95
Boomsday ImageBoomsday
by Christopher Buckley
Twelve; Published: 2007-04-02; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $2.70
Price in other shops: $24.99
Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America ImageLand of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America
by Andrew Ferguson
Grove Press; Published: 2008-04-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.15
Price in other shops: $14.00
Fair and Balanced, My Ass!: An Unbridled Look at the Bizarre Reality of Fox News ImageFair and Balanced, My Ass!: An Unbridled Look at the Bizarre Reality of Fox News
by Joseph Minton Amann, Tom Breuer
Nation Books; Published: 2007-04-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.60
Price in other shops: $14.95
Anti-Christ: A Satirical End of Days ImageAnti-Christ: A Satirical End of Days
by Matthew Moses
Booklocker.com, Inc.; Published: 2007-01-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $16.16
Price in other shops: $17.95
An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems ImageAn Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems
by Glenn Beck
Threshold Editions; Published: 2007-11-20; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $10.40
Price in other shops: $26.00
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes ImagePlato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
by Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein
Abrams Image; Published: 2007-05-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.48
Price in other shops: $18.95
How to Win a Fight with a Conservative ImageHow to Win a Fight with a Conservative
by Daniel Kurtzman
Hysteria Publications; Published: 2007-06-21; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.92
Price in other shops: $8.95
Similar Books and other products
Full Circle ImageFull Circle
by Michael Thomas Ford
Kensington; Published: 2007-08-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.24
Price in other shops: $15.00
Summer Cruising ImageSummer Cruising
by Dave Benbow
Palari Publishing; Published: 2006-06-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.39
Price in other shops: $14.95
The Tin Star ImageThe Tin Star
by J. L. Langley
Loose Id, LLC; Published: 2006-08-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.30
Price in other shops: $10.99
Strings Attached ImageStrings Attached
by Nick Nolan
BookSurge Publishing; Published: 2006-06-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $12.26
Price in other shops: $18.99
Call Me by Your Name: A Novel ImageCall Me by Your Name: A Novel
by Andre Aciman
Picador; Published: 2008-01-22; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.47
Price in other shops: $14.00
Alternatives to Sex: A Novel ImageAlternatives to Sex: A Novel
by Stephen McCauley
Washington Square Press; Published: 2007-01-09; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.20
Price in other shops: $14.00
The Back Passage ImageThe Back Passage
by James Lear
Cleis Press; Published: 2006-05-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.04
Price in other shops: $13.95
Michael Tolliver Lives: A Novel ImageMichael Tolliver Lives: A Novel
by Armistead Maupin
HarperCollins; Published: 2007-06-12; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $6.71
Price in other shops: $25.95
Blue Heaven (Contemporary American Fiction) ImageBlue Heaven (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Joe Keenan
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 1988-08-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.36
Price in other shops: $14.00
Putting on the Ritz ImagePutting on the Ritz
by Joe Keenan
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 1992-11-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.40
Price in other shops: $15.00
Book store. Illustrated catalog of books on different categories