Good Luck Arizona Man

By Rex Benedict

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 0440430089
• ISBN13: 9780440430087
• Release Date: September 1973
• Publisher: Dell Publishing
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Be sure you've been to the bathroom before opening

This book is one of the funniest ever! Years ago, when I drove my latency-aged children across country, we had the book in the car, and to avoid sibling conflict on the long road trip, I had my daughter read it aloud. It's one of my most treasured memories. It has everything: Treasure, bad guys, good guys (Indians), clever kids who win the day. The publisher needs to get its head examined for not keeping it in print.

My favourite book, hilarious and fast-moving.

Arizona Slim tells the story as if he's chatting to you, and the misspellings help a lot. While reading you feel like you're in the book, with him. All the characters make you seem very close to them, and they are hilarios in their ways, language and actions. Their names are enough! For people who dont like long, slow moving book this is the one. Fast moving, interesting, original and above all funny. The book has a quality that you can't describe, it's so good. Really, whoever you are, you MUST read it.

Laugh out loud, heck, read the whole book out loud!

As with the other two people who have reviewed this book, I was introduced to it by my father. I very much enjoyed listening to this story. In the 20 years since, I have read this book several times - my copy is now ragged! I have also enjoyed reading this book to young people while working as a day care provider. There is enough mischief and mayhem, enough sneaky twists, and enough action to keep your attention. The language is, at times, poetic, at other times just plain funny. It is truly a crime that this book is not in print. I want to send a copy to my eleven year old half-sister, but don't want to give mine up!

Funniest book I ever read.

My dad and I read this book, and it's wit is still impressive (15 years later) compared to the literary classics. I'd recommend this book to everyone.

Story

My father read this book to me when I was fairly young. He slipped it in between Watership Down and The Lord of the Rings, and so naturally when I grew of age, I expected it to be a classic know all over the globe. I have found that this is not the case and I am rather disappointed with the world. Sometimes there are fiction books that outdo the fantasy series in fantasy, or the ancient myths in myth. This is a myth which we can understand, because we half-belong to culture of the book. There is something about this tale that makes it sound as if it is spun right at the fireside where ole Wicky-up sits up straight, half asleep.