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Kinky Friedman #7-9
Even More Kinky
Contains the novels Armadillos & Old Lace, God Bless John Wayne, and The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover.
- GenresFiction
Paperback
First published September 4, 2000
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About the author
Kinky Friedman
69 books289 followersRichard S. "Kinky" Friedman is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain. He was one of two independent candidates in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas. Receiving 12.6% of the vote, Friedman placed fourth in the six-person race.
Friedman was born in Chicago to Jewish parents, Dr. S. Thomas Friedman and his wife Minnie (Samet) Friedman. The family moved to a ranch in central Texas a few years later. Friedman had an early interest in both music and chess, and was chosen at age 7 as one of 50 local players to challenge U.S. grandmaster Samuel Reshevsky to simultaneous matches in Houston. Reshevsky won all 50 matches, but Friedman was by far the youngest competitor.
Friedman graduated from Austin High School in Austin, Texas in 1962 and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in 1966, majoring in Psychology. He took part in the Plan II Honors program and was a member of the Tau Delta Phi fraternity. During his freshman year, Chinga Chavin gave Friedman the nickname "Kinky" because of his curly hair.
Friedman served two years in the United States Peace Corps, teaching on Borneo in Malaysia with John Gross. During his service in the Peace Corps, he met future Texas Jewboy road manager Dylan Ferrero, with whom he still works today. Friedman lives at Echo Hill Ranch, his family's summer camp near Kerrville, Texas. He founded Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch, also located near Kerrville, whose mission is to care for stray, abused and aging animals; more than 1,000 dogs have been saved from animal euthanasia.
Series:
* Kinky Friedman Mystery
Friedman was born in Chicago to Jewish parents, Dr. S. Thomas Friedman and his wife Minnie (Samet) Friedman. The family moved to a ranch in central Texas a few years later. Friedman had an early interest in both music and chess, and was chosen at age 7 as one of 50 local players to challenge U.S. grandmaster Samuel Reshevsky to simultaneous matches in Houston. Reshevsky won all 50 matches, but Friedman was by far the youngest competitor.
Friedman graduated from Austin High School in Austin, Texas in 1962 and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in 1966, majoring in Psychology. He took part in the Plan II Honors program and was a member of the Tau Delta Phi fraternity. During his freshman year, Chinga Chavin gave Friedman the nickname "Kinky" because of his curly hair.
Friedman served two years in the United States Peace Corps, teaching on Borneo in Malaysia with John Gross. During his service in the Peace Corps, he met future Texas Jewboy road manager Dylan Ferrero, with whom he still works today. Friedman lives at Echo Hill Ranch, his family's summer camp near Kerrville, Texas. He founded Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch, also located near Kerrville, whose mission is to care for stray, abused and aging animals; more than 1,000 dogs have been saved from animal euthanasia.
Series:
* Kinky Friedman Mystery
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January 30, 2022
The third omnibus I have read of Kinky Friedman's crime novels, which means I have read nine separate novels in total. He is one of my favourite crime writers. His novels are offbeat, always amusing, irreverant, absolutely of their time (the 1980s and 1990s) and yet full of gnomic one-liners that are timeless. The three books in this particular volume are all worth reading but they aren't equally good.
Armadillos and Old Lace is unusual in that it is set outside New York, deep in rural Texas. I found this change of setting refreshing. God Bless John Wayne was less to my taste, though the plot is certainly interesting. The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover is the best of the trio, more convoluted, stranger, wilder than the others.
Armadillos and Old Lace is unusual in that it is set outside New York, deep in rural Texas. I found this change of setting refreshing. God Bless John Wayne was less to my taste, though the plot is certainly interesting. The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover is the best of the trio, more convoluted, stranger, wilder than the others.
August 6, 2011
what's better than a kinky friedman book?.... how about 3 books from the kinkster! being a big kinky fan already, this collection was just all kinds of awesome...
June 10, 2012
contains 3 novels, I had already read the 1st novel and the beginning of the 2nd, when I continued reading I could hardly put the book aside, I really like his humor e.g. "I left the cat in charge."
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