Lady Slings the Booze [Hardcover]

Spider Robinson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1992

Mike Callahan's wife aims to please at her intergalactic house of ill repute that attracts customers from beyond the limits of the universe.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

As the title of the second Lady Sally Callahan novel shows, Robinson ( Callahan's Lady ) has not lost his touch for puns. Unfortunately, he has lost his touch for character, plot and dialogue. This book is hilarious in places, but its disparate parts never merge as a whole. The story is disjointed, and there are long stretches where nothing relevant happens. Private detective Joe Quigley is hired to track down an invisible attacker at Lady Sally's brothel, and ends up saving the world from rabid pacifists who want to nuke it. In between, everyone makes love and makes puns. The characters are collections of eccentricities rather than real people. When they aren't busy punning and wisecracking, they are preaching at Quigley, whose main function is to be amazed at everything he sees. Near the end of the book the tone suddenly turns serious, and the change is jarring. Readers who feel a need to groan at Robinson's puns would be better off rereading his early Callahan collections (e.g., Callahan's Cross-Time Saloon ).
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 257 pages
• Publisher: Ace Hardcover; 1st edition (November 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0441469280
• ISBN-13: 978-0441469284
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,780,931 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Beware! this book may make you fall off you chair laughing., October 13, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Lady Slings the Booze (Paperback)

Lady slings the Booze is full of one-liners and puns! So if you can't take it, stop reading. Lady Sally aka wife of Mike Callahan stars in this one - and she is out to save the world. With the help of some very talented 'artists' in her employ she goes about it. The book twists and turns and there is no guessing the end. I was surprised it ended so abruptly. I've read many of Spider Robinson books both in and out of the 'Callahan' series and I love them. It doesn't matter where you start. I frequently had to stop reading and put the book down just to laugh at the the author's thought processes(and pun-usage). Highly recommended.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How do I get to Brooklin?, December 24, 1999

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This review is from: Lady Slings the Booze (Paperback)

Erotic, funny, thoughtful, Spider Robinson through and through. I can even picture Jeanne hanging over his shoulder as he writes this, both the "Lady Sally" books actually. There is way too much woman in his writing but then again Spider always has had that touch of cross sexual emapthy. Sometimes I think his wife is writing just to see if they can fool us. <grin>

The house sounds like such fun and The Parlor is a place not even second to Callahans for wit, tallent and love.

A place like Sally's IS possible within each of us, if we learn to pay attention to the one we are with.

Dont distract the smoke artists, keep your pants on below the 2nd floor, and dont pee in the pool. Talk politely to the dog also, hate to see him pun on you... Meet you at the fireplace.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Belly acheing punsters fantasy, June 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lady Slings the Booze (Paperback)

Although this is not my Favorite of Robinsons books, It still is a joyes read. If You truly enjoy light hearted fantasy fiction with a whole slew of puns mixed liberally in, this is it for you. I await more.