From time to time I'll use this blog to comment on various forms of media and entertainment, and those of you who read what I write can vouch for the fact that some of my favorite sources of commentary are books.
It was about a year ago that I was taken to task by the author of that classic work of fiction "Thong on Fire" for judging his book by it's cover. Well, DUH! With a title like "Thong on Fire," it's an open invitation to critique the book even without delving into the pulpy pages within. To be fair, after reading bits and pieces of the book (at the author's insistence), I found it to be amazingly well-written, albeit crap...but well-written crap.
Which brings us to today's near-brilliant tome, "Enchanted Again" by Nancy Madore. The following is the product description from Amazon.com:
Following the overwhelming success of Enchanted, author Nancy Madore has responded to her fans' pleas for a follow-up with a brilliant second collection—this time comprised of superbly sensual, delightfully debauched and decidedly darker modern-day interpretations of classic nursery rhymes.
Meet Dan, the handyman whose toolbox is full of surprises…Georgie Porgie, no longer the boy who's content with only kissing girls…Jessica, who, torn between two men, may be lured into the wrong web…Peter, whose wife's wandering eye arouses his libido… As well as an interesting assortment of characters who will entertain and arouse the adult in you…
Okay then....whew.... makes me want to do nothing more than NOT READ THIS BOOK! In fact, I can think of nothing more I'd like to do than NOT READ THIS BOOK! If you read the customer reviews on Amazon, they all seem to really, really like this book, and to those people I offer this advice... GET A LIFE!
The one thing I can recommend about this book is the wonderful cover art which features a picture of a woman with a pumpkin growing out of her butt. Hence, the nickname "Pumpkin Butt." Since I first spotted this book on the shelves at Barnes and Noble, I've grown to love accidentally finding this title around the store and then commenting on "Pumpkin Butt" and making catchy tag-lines for it like "You'd be out of your gourd to not love Pumpkin Butt," or "Her Husband was a vegetable and she was Pumpkin Butt." You know, silly, stupid stuff...
Needless to say, I will most assuredly never read "Enchanted Again" by Nancy Madore...even if she writes to me to say that I should. I do have one question for her though.... "Why's that lady got a punkin' growin' outta her butt?"
-David
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