Rubber Babes: Further Misadventures of Rollo Hemphill

by Gerald Everett Jones

In this hilarious sequel to My Inflatable Friend, clueless tyro Rollo Hemphill continues to fail upward to become the youngest-ever director of a multimillion-dollar charitable foundation. Far too late, he begins to suspect it's a money laundry for sinister players in the Secret Government who are setting him up to take the fall for an international fraud. But his paranoia becomes most acute when he becomes entangled with a succession of women he calls "rubber babes." Claiming he was inspired by the satiric novels of Peter De Vries, author Gerald Everett Jones blogs on the topic of male-centered comic fiction at Boychik Lit (www.boychiklit.com).

246 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2008

About the author

Gerald says, "I write mystery-thrillers and literary fiction for adult readers who seek insight, fascination, and delight in the adventures of their own lives."
Gerald Everett Jones is a freelance writer who lives in Santa Monica, California. Harry Harambee's Kenyan Sundowner is his eleventh and most recent novel. From 2020-21 he won ten book awards - one in business, four in literary fiction, and five in mystery-thriller. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, the Dramatists Guild, Women's National Book Association, and Film Independent (FIND), as well as a director of the Independent Writers of Southern California (IWOSC). He holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from the College of Letters, Wesleyan University, where he studied under novelists Peter Boynton (Stone Island), F.D. Reeve (The Red Machines), and Jerzy Kosinski (The Painted Bird, Being There). Learn more at geraldeverettjones.com.

Reviews

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rollo Hemphill is back in another wacky, hilarious adventure. Rollo works for a high profitable charity foundation. One day he is approached by a Mr. Dieter Zittpopper. Mr. Zitt wants Rollo’s help. Mr. Zitt starts to explain to a condition called Keppelhoffer’s Syndrome that affect men. A condition that is very deadly. Keppelhoffer’s Syndrome is caused by Erectile Dysfunction drugs. Rollo agrees to help. What Rollo doesn’t know is that he is being set up to take the fall in a money laundering scheme. You have got to read Rubber Babes: Further Misadventures of Rollo Hemphill in order to find out if Rollo comes out on top. Plus if you don’t read this book, how will you ever discover what Rubber Babes are?

Rubber Babes: Further Misadventures of Rollo Hemphill is the sequel to My Inflatable Friend, the first book by author, Gerald Everett Jones to feature clueless but loveable Rollo Hemphill. I have not read the first book but luckily you don’t have to in order to enjoy reading the sequel.

When I first read the summary for this book, I thought I should get some laughs out of reading this story as it is a comic novel and my other thought was…I so have got to read this book to experience what exactly boy chik lot is all about. What I got out of Rubber Babes is lots of laughs from the titles of each chapter in the book, Mr. Zitts, working on a campaign to save men everywhere from the serious problem of Keppelhoffer’s Syndrome and finally to Rollo’s visit at a porn shoot. Every time I was sure Mr. Everett Jones couldn’t shock me anymore in a good way, I was wrong. He did it bigger and better the next time, Rollo went or did anything. I want to thank Mr. Everett Jones for turning me on to my first boy chik lit and for making it a good time. I now want to check out more of these types of stories. I just hope these types of books can live up to this high a standard now.

[Gerald · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yup, I did it again. This is the sequel to "My Inflatable Friend."