MASH Goes to Vienna [Paperback]

Richard Hooker (Author), William E. Butterworth (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Pocket (May 1, 1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671804588
• ISBN-13: 978-0671804589
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,266,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Richard Hooker... SURE he wrote it., March 28, 2002

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Craig Gustafson (Lombard, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MASH Goes to Vienna (Paperback)

After "MASH" & "MASH Goes to Maine," Richard Hooker "took on a collaborator", William E. Butterworth, for a series of "MASH Goes to..." books.

The first two MASH books are basically collections of short stories with a very loose structure. The Butterworth books are sitcom novels... and not very good ones.

After the Butterworth series was played out, Hooker released "MASH Mania," which was a loosely structured series of short stories about the Swampmen in middle-age -- a rock-ribbed Republican middle-age, in fact, amazing though that may be to fans of the TV series, which Hooker hated. Although this book has politics opposite to my own, it's still funny and more importantly, Hooker WROTE IT.

From the completely different writing styles involved, I'd say that if Hooker ever even SAW what Butterworth wrote, it was to say, "Yeah, ok. I'll approve that."

I like Hooker's writing; so I felt rather manipulated by the Butterworth MASH books, which to my mind are Hooker's in name only.