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Katzenjammer: Soon to be A Major Motion Picture | 
 enlarge | Author: Jackson Tippett Mccrae
Publisher: Enolam Group Inc
Category: Book
Buy New: £39.33
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 377726
Media: Paperback
Pages: 359
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.2 x 1
ISBN: 0971553637
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780971553637
ASIN: 0971553637
Publication Date: August 30, 2005
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Totally off the wall November 26, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I stumbled on this book a couple of months ago because it came recommended to me from a friend who'd evidently been through something like what's in the book. Turns out, it's a very well-crafted book, full of anagrams, twists, and weird characters. Warning: If you don't like Vonnegut, Sedaris, Moore, or anything off-color, you won't like this book. If you like the book "Do Ants Have Arseholes," then you won't be offended by anything in this little gem.
Bleepin fun November 23, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
What a bloke this Perkins character is! Loved it, the way I like Martin Amis's works or the books by Kurt Vonnegut, though this McCrae writer is not like anyone else. There's a good reason he's popular in Australia and N.Z. Loved the plot. You won't believe the ending, nor will you ever be able to guess it.
Manchester
Extremely funny November 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A funny shocking book. I had no idea the gossip items the author puts in about John Wayne, Charlie Chaplin, and famous authors. Very funny and cringing in places. Also like the "take" on New York and all the corruption in that ciy and with industries.
Stellar! November 9, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I know no better way to let you know how funny and knowing this book is than to give you an exerpt. I hope the author won't mind as it's only a sampling of his great wit. Here goes:
In order to test the editor, I typed out a complete chapter of Huckleberry Finn--a chapter from the middle of the book. Then I presented it, along with the statement, "I'm working on something new as you've convinced me that my current novel isn't any good."
"This is a perfect example of what I'm talking about," she started in after skimming Twain's work right in front of me. "You're telling the story instead of showing. As this stands now, you'd never get it published. Your use of English is deplorable, and the phrase is African-American--not nigger. And why would anyone want to read about the Mississippi River anyway?"
The next week I tried a chapter from Faulkner's Light in August.
"Boy, do you need to learn to write!" she said, settling onto the sofa. "You're lucky you came to me. I can really help you with this sort of thing. Do you even know what a sentence is supposed to sound like?"
Truman Capote's In Cold Blood was next.
"People don't generally like reading about this sort of thing," she said, her eyebrows up. "You'd be hard-pressed to find a publisher for it but if you agree to work with me for the next year-payment in advance-I should be able to help you whip it into shape. We have to start by taking out all the violence. That never sells." And then she added, "Just how many examples of your bad writing attempts do you have?"
Her response to three complete chapters from Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, again typed out so as not to look suspicious, garnered the comment, "Didn't you do anything interesting at all on your summer vacation?"
In an attempt to see just how far I could push the envelope, I began to send samples of famous books to various publishers, reasoning that they were as inept as my editor. I attached my name and a different title, just to see how they would react. I knew that the samples would either be ignored, read by some ignorant twenty-year-old whose idea of great literature was the Peanuts comic strip, or given the proverbial "shove-off" letter. Strangely enough, I actually got back responses instead of the usual form letters. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that I lied about having an agent and being wealthy enough to fund my own marketing campaign.
For the first three chapters of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, which I called Morning Aubade, I received the response, "Works like this are generally not publishable and there has never really been a market for this type of thing."
In response to the complete Nine Short Stories by Salinger (it took me two weeks to retype them all), I received, "We are not in the habit of printing the work of fifth-graders. May we suggest a writing course at your local junior college?"
And then there was the response to Steinbeck's last three chapters from The Grapes of Wrath which I had re-titled California Dreamin'.
"We suggest you try one of the lesser-known publishing houses for a work of this genre as the market for this type of thing is usually small. Also, you may want to change the ending as the breast-feeding of the hobo is a bit over the top."
One acquisitions editor at a major house even had the intelligence to recognize the name Max Perkins and accuse me of pretending to be someone I wasn't. "I happen to know the real Max Perkins," she wrote, "and as soon as I put this letter in the post, I'm calling him up and letting him know that you're using his name." I wanted to wish the acquisitions editor luck as the Max Perkins she was referring to had been dead at that point for forty-three years.
Rarely have I come across a book as witty as this. Woody Allen should be so jealous and as far as the form of the novel, it's just remarkable. It's the ONE book whose ending I've NOT been able to guess.
Totally cool November 5, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I totally love this book. Maybe it was because I wasn't expecting much, but boy, did i get it! Fantastic writing and a plot that will make you do a double-take. Fine craftsmanship and cool characters make this top-notch.
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