My Lucky Star : A Novel
by Joe Keenan
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Author: Joe KeenanEdition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-01-25
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Amazon Remainders Account
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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.
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"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
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