This is an off-the-wall screwball comedy. I'm willing to suspend disbelief for a really good romp, but I just didn't think this was funny enough. If the idea of carrying the president's bloody head around in bean bag chair strikes you as inherently hilarious, you might disagree. (It's a fictional president, not the current president.)

Not my type of humor - seems to be aimed at male audience, so I won't rate and am slightly embarassed I even read.

Totally fast-paced plot-based page-turner that I read to avoid doing other things. Not that the plot wasn't interesting, in its presidential-fellatio, crazy homeless poet, decapitative way, but I probably should go study for those tests now.

Sandlin's one of my favorite writers, but this one's a bit of a disappointment.

There are two main differences between this and Sandlin's earlier work. First, Sandlin uses third person for the first time and it robs the story of a lot of the quirky charm exuded by the narrators of his earlier books. Much of the humor in those works came from the awardward moments of self-awareness present in the characters. As a result, this one comes off as much more generic--there's really nobody for readers to relate to on the level of previous books. Rather than a Sandlin work, I kept feeling like I was reading a knock-off Carl Hiassen. That's not a terrible thing, its just not up to par with something like the GroVont trilogy.

The second big difference is that rather than an off-beat look at life and relationships, Honey Don't functions more as political satire. While some of Sandlin's barbs hit the mark, too often things feel bitter so that on the whole this book lacks the insight and the pathos that made the earlier works so memorable.

That's not to say the book isn't without considerable strengths. Its packed full of belly laughs and the characters, if somewhat two-dimensional, have enough quirks to keep readers entertained. There are a collection of hilarious scenes, ideas and lines. But in the end, none of it ever provokes much of an emotional reaction, making Honey Don't perfect as light beach reading but far short of Sandlin's most memorable effort.

(interesting side-note--the plot of this book was first introduced as Kelly Palamino's unpublished fourth novel in "Sex and Sunsets" Sandlin's 1987 debut. Kelly didn't think it was that great either.)

Silly, stupid at times, quirky. If you like Carl Hiassen or Christopher Moore--this book is similar. It was OK but the ending was drawn out and by the time it was over I was ready to be done with it.

Don't recall reading- 7-2010

I loved this book! Very funny, perfect DC milieu, spot-on skewering re working of the executive branch in particular and federal government in general. It should be a movie. Is it?

No idea where this book came from and it is not like anything I usually read. I loved t!

I just like Tim Sandlin. I like his characters, I like his writing style, I like his storyline. If you're a fan of Sandlin, go ahead and read this. It'll give you a good chuckle here and there and you'll definitely keep turning the pages.

The premise scares me but I know it'll rule anyway.

I know I read this book and have a vague recollection of liking it... but I have absolutely no recollection of the book itself.

Ok, this book is about a bogus bagman gangster who walks in on his g/f while the President of the United States is tonguing her clit. When he confronts the Pres, the Pres freaks and starts to run. He trips over his bikini briefs, bangs his head on the metal flamingo in the living room and dies. The rest of the book is how the government deals with its dead leader and the people who are aware of his death running away. There are a ton of strange characters and the writing just speeds you through all this funniness before you know it, it's all over. I've just become a Tim Sandlin fan, and funny enough is this isn't even the book I was looking for. I was looking for a different book I had heard about by the same author and got this one on a whim. I can't wait to find more by this guy to see if he's always this funny. If it's any indication I started reading this book last night and I'm mad that I don't have another one of his books to start now. Although actually, it's probably good that I finished this now or I'd be up late tonight finishing it. Don't start this book if you need to get your beauty rest...wait 'til the weekend.