I know what you want: You want to
know what other people have to think about Slightly
Off the Mark: The Unpublished Columns. And who can blame you?
What, you don’t want that? You want
… brownies? Well, okay, go get a snack and then come back.
Here’s a review by author DM
Yates, who’s more than just a trophy wife:
She compares me to Mark Twain,
despite the fact that I’ve never piloted a riverboat, and I look terrible in
white. We’re both Marked, though.
Here’s a review by Kay Kauffman,
who has a signed affidavit that we’re related by neither blood nor bank
account:
Kay insists the book is chock
full of laughs, as opposed to initial reports that she laughed ‘till she
choked, and a three day investigation by the Wapello County Sheriff Department
has confirmed this.
Those and two other reviews can
be found on Goodreads:
The other two reviews are by
Barry Parham, who himself is a humor writer and thus should know better, and
Joleen Naylor, whose horror stories about vampires make her an expert on
politics.
By Federal statute Goodreads can
only list books that are good reads, as determined through a review by the Mount
Airy, North Carolina, Police Department. Writers who violate this statute can
be thrown into a weekend drunk tank with Otis, a long-term convict rumored to
have both body odor and severe halitosis. These reviews can, then, be viewed
with a high degree of accuracy.
Congrats on the reviews. People read mine. Tell me how wonderful they are, but they do not write reviews. I shouldn't complain. They buy the next one.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they're about two dozen reviews behind, like I am? But I suppose buying is more important than reviewing -- at least, in the short run.
DeleteI'm WAY behind on writing reviews--but you're on my list, Mark.
ReplyDeleteAren't we all! I have a bunch of reading and reviewing to do.
DeleteSame here, but those are terrific, Mark.
ReplyDeleteSure beats making them up!
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