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Honey Don't

tim sandlin

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A free-spirited young Texas woman becomes the center of a near-future political ring that includes a dying president, a mafia man fleeing his family and the Secret Service with a cache of stolen money, and a cocaine-addicted vice president. Reprint.

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,2003

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400 pages, Paperback
Published
May 4, 2004 by Riverhead Trade
ISBN
9781594480225
ASIN
1594480222
Language
English

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TheJohns
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April 26,2025
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Outrageous and hilarious. POTUS picks the wrong girl for a one night stand and is killed by a Mafioso in DC while caught by him with his girlfriend, a bimbo from Texas named Honey. Honey and Mafioso flee with the body, seeking refuge with her ex-boyfriend, a gay Washington Redskins defensive end. A burned out reporter puts the pieces together and confronts them. Mafia man also has his boss after him for failing to drop off payments he had collected. Hostage taking, shoot outs, and behind the scenes politics with the First Lady and the VP provide more humor. After a while though you just want this nonsense to end.
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FallenAngel18
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April 26,2025
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I love Tim Sandlin. His Grovont trilogy is absolutely hilarious. This, his most recent book, is not. It's actually pretty lame. It makes me sad.
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ArtemBaykov14
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April 26,2025
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Laugh out loud funny. A wild ride. It's got it all: a philandering president, the mob, a gay NFL lineman, a drug addicted VP, Washington politics and a wild chase for the president's head. The story line is compelling.
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Thereisnoonehere
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April 26,2025
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I am a big fan of Mr. Sandlin's, but...this is clearly his weakest work. It is more in the vein of a Tim Dorsey or Carl Hiaasen novel then it is a Sandlin. By the way, I am a fan of those two writers, but they don't compare to Sandlin's normal output.
Unlike in the four other Sandlin books I have read, the characters do not come across as real people. Usually Sandlin's characters are flesh and blood despite the oddball plot devices. That was not the case in "Honey Don't". The characters never gained dimension.
Another thing that got in my way was the title character of the novel, a Texas gal named Honey. I just flat out did not care for her as a person. Sandlin creates her as a woman who uses sex to manipulate her friends and enemies, and yet he clearly wants the reader to accept her as a sort of "hero" of the novel. Not me. Simply put, I could not stand her!
Now, don't get me wrong, I did not go into this book expecting great things. When the advertised plot device is that a couple of yahoos accidentally kill the president as he is engaged in oral sex you know you are not reading a typical book. However, the text stretched the realm of possibility just too far for my tastes. Had the premise and resulting scenarios been a little more realistic and the characters stock types (or vice versa) I might have been able to stomach it. However, when both plot and characters are shallow and trite, the result is not good.
I did laugh out loud a few times, and I read the book on the beach. It is perfect for that, just not much else.
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Sofi_sama
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April 26,2025
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Hilarious. It's one of those books that make you laugh, but at the same time, cry and die a little bit inside with every sarcastic line. It satirizes American society and humanity in general, both guilty of taking themselves too seriously, more so than they deserve. Mankind has many flaws, both individually and collectively, and Sandlin shows that absurdities such as the one addressed in the book can only happen because of humans' attempt at pursuing nobility and denying its many faults.
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Manime8freak
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April 26,2025
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Like 4.5 stars. It was an enjoyable and funny read, but something felt unsubstantial about it. Like it was a little TOO breezy.
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