The Stench of Honolulu, Jack Handey
The Stench of Honolulu, Jack Handey
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The Stench of Honolulu
A Tropical Adventure

Author: Jack Handey

Narrator: Jack Handey

Unabridged: 3 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/16/2013

Categories: Fiction, Humorous


Synopsis

The legendary Deep Thoughts and New Yorker humorist Jack Handey is back with his very first novel-a hilarious, absurd, far-flung adventure tale.

The Stench of Honolulu

Are you a fan of books in which famous tourist destinations are repurposed as unlivable hellholes for no particular reason? Read on!

Jack Handey's exotic tale is full of laugh-out-loud twists and unforgettable characters whose names escape me right now. A reliably unreliable narrator and his friend, who is some other guy, need to get out of town. They have a taste for adventure, so they pay a visit to a relic of bygone days-a travel agent-and discover an old treasure map. She might have been a witch, by the way. Our heroes soon embark on a quest for the Golden Monkey, which takes them into the mysterious and stinky foreign land of Honolulu. There, they meet untold dangers, confront strange natives, kill and eat Turtle People, kill some other things and people, eat another thing, and discover the ruins of ancient civilizations.

As our narrator says, "The ruins were impressive. But like so many civilizations, they forgot the rule that might have saved them: Don't let vines grow all over you."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason on August 01, 2013

When you are reading a book by Jack Handey, and you come across a sentence such as: “The sun was like a blazing ball of fire in the sky,” you know you are witnessing genius. Because yes, the sun literally is a blazing ball of fire in the sky, so structuring the sentence as a metaphor is ironic. But t......more

Goodreads review by Nate on September 06, 2016

Dry. Incoherent. Hilarious. It's basically Deep Thoughts crammed into a flimsy plot. I love his stuff, but I could only take so much at a time due to dryness desensitization. Then I'd come back to it and it was hilarious again. So a 3.5 * rounded up. His tone is hysterical, and I could definitely se......more

Goodreads review by Michael on October 21, 2017

Downright hilarious, delightfully absurd, and pleasingly nonsensical, THE STENCH OF HONOLULU is Jack Handey at his finest. It’s so good, it made me do my funny cowboy dance, and I wouldn’t say that in public if it weren’t absolutely true. Buy this book. Support Handey’s drinking habit. Have some laugh......more

Goodreads review by John on September 01, 2013

this book was funny at least 10 times on every page. i will put this book on my shelf right next to "The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" Jack Handy is a Genius......more

Goodreads review by Leslie on August 05, 2013

A word of warning – do not read this book while wearing a clay facial mask. You’ll just crack it up, rendering it useless and you’ll have no one to blame but yourself. That said, DO read this book (preferably without any substance of any sort on your face of course). If you are like me – you loved Ja......more