- Purchase this entertainment book and get 12 issues to either Rolling Stone, Men's Journal or Us Weekly for $2.95 each. That's less than $0.25 an issue. Here's how (restrictions apply)
Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. Already a member? Sign in.
What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World
and over 300,000 other books are available for Amazon Kindle – Amazon’s new wireless reading device.
Learn more
|
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Frequently Bought Together
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
Cowboy Logic: The Wit and Wisdom of Kinky Friedman (and Some of His Friends) by Kinky Friedman |
The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic: A "Walk" in Austin (Crown Journeys) by Kinky Friedman |
Texas Hold 'Em: How I Was Born in a Manger, Died in the Saddle, and Came Back as a Horny Toad by Kinky Friedman |
by Kinky Friedman
|
by Kinky Friedman
|
Editorial Reviews
From Booklist
Since having seemingly killed off his alter ego, Kinky Friedman, the curmudgeonly singer turned curmudgeonly crime solver of 17 novels, the Kinkster has not rested on his laurels. Instead, he has been busy running for the governor of Texas (he lost with more than 12 percent of the vote); selling cigars (Kinky Friedman Cigars, or, KFC); and writing columns for Texas Monthly. Now, in his latest effort, Kinky proffers advice. Not “direct good advice” but, instead, “lots and lots of common Zen bullshit” on such topics as writing, traveling, “life, death, and everything in between.” Really an excuse to expound again on his favorite obsessions (politics, Hank Williams’ death in the back of a ’52 Cadillac, and his favorite lunatics who’ve gone mad or “stepped on a rainbow”), this compendium allows Kinky to recall his Peace Corp days in Borneo, where he ate monkey brains; explain why he (and other authors) killed off their creations; profile personal heroes of his like Don Imus, Bob Dylan, Jack Ruby, Willie Nelson, and various animals who’ve saved lives; and, most importantly, share his special brand of Texas wit and wisdom again. --Ben Segedin
Review
"Sometimes he's outrageous. Most of the time, he's outrageously funny." - People" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
See all Editorial Reviews
Since having seemingly killed off his alter ego, Kinky Friedman, the curmudgeonly singer turned curmudgeonly crime solver of 17 novels, the Kinkster has not rested on his laurels. Instead, he has been busy running for the governor of Texas (he lost with more than 12 percent of the vote); selling cigars (Kinky Friedman Cigars, or, KFC); and writing columns for Texas Monthly. Now, in his latest effort, Kinky proffers advice. Not “direct good advice” but, instead, “lots and lots of common Zen bullshit” on such topics as writing, traveling, “life, death, and everything in between.” Really an excuse to expound again on his favorite obsessions (politics, Hank Williams’ death in the back of a ’52 Cadillac, and his favorite lunatics who’ve gone mad or “stepped on a rainbow”), this compendium allows Kinky to recall his Peace Corp days in Borneo, where he ate monkey brains; explain why he (and other authors) killed off their creations; profile personal heroes of his like Don Imus, Bob Dylan, Jack Ruby, Willie Nelson, and various animals who’ve saved lives; and, most importantly, share his special brand of Texas wit and wisdom again. --Ben Segedin
Review
"Sometimes he's outrageous. Most of the time, he's outrageously funny." - People" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
See all Editorial Reviews
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
Let us begin this ordeal with a fairly safe assumption: No human being who has ever lived in this world has ever taken good advice. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tribute album Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Peace Corps, New York, Leila Marie, Billy Joe, Willie Nelson, Hill Country, Nonstop Talker, Hank Williams, New Orleans, Earl Buckelew, Bob Dylan, Dixie Chicks, Danny Rosenthal, Sherlock Holmes, World War, Native American, Emily Dickinson, Echo Hill, Oscar Wilde, Captain America, Texas Jewboys, Four Horsemen, United States, Judy Garland, Conan Doyle Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Let us begin this ordeal with a fairly safe assumption: No human being who has ever lived in this world has ever taken good advice. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tribute album Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Peace Corps, New York, Leila Marie, Billy Joe, Willie Nelson, Hill Country, Nonstop Talker, Hank Williams, New Orleans, Earl Buckelew, Bob Dylan, Dixie Chicks, Danny Rosenthal, Sherlock Holmes, World War, Native American, Emily Dickinson, Echo Hill, Oscar Wilde, Captain America, Texas Jewboys, Four Horsemen, United States, Judy Garland, Conan Doyle Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?
 |
77% buy the item featured on this page: What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World $16.29 |
 |
7% buy You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics $17.16 |
 |
6% buy Ten Little New Yorkers: A Novel $14.35 |
 |
5% buy God Bless John Wayne (Kinky Friedman Novels) $6.99 |
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Help others find this product — tag it for Amazon search
No one has tagged this product for Amazon search yet. Why not be the first to suggest a search for which it should appear?
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
|||||||
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
 |
Customer Discussions
Beta (What's this?)
New! See all customer communities, and bookmark your communities to keep track of them.
|
This product's forum
(0 discussions)
Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Active discussions in related forums
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Product Information from the Amapedia Community
Beta (What's this?)Be the first person to add an article about this item at Amapedia.com.
› See featured Amapedia.com articles
So You'd Like to...
Look for Similar Items by Category
- Books > Entertainment > Humor > Essays
An Explosion of Popcorn Flavor! |
See the Light |
The Workhorse of the Woodshop |
||||||||
|
Your Recent History
(What's this?)|
You have no recently viewed items or searches.
After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session. |
Continue shopping: Top Sellers
| ||||
| ||
| ||
| ||
| ||
| ||
