Published: Oct. 16, 2009
Words: 48666 (approximate)
Language: English

Ebook short description

Dumb stunt with celebrity look-alike doll backfires. Boy fails upward! A car jockey at a luxury hotel in Beverly Hills, youthful hacker turned-slacker Rollo Hemphill devises a screwball scheme for making his girlfriend jealous. Through a silly but magical ruse, our hero gets everything he’s dreamed about--except the girl he really wants--or any sex at all!

Extended description

Magdalena Ball (Compulsive Reader) says: Let me be honest here. This is not a genre I'd normally read. I had to be dragged, kicking and screaming (very quietly) to it. But that said, there are times when you really don't want to work too hard: a hard day in the office, screaming kids, nothing on the tellie, and only cold water in the tap. Everett Jones take me away. My Inflatable Friend is well written and funny, with Rollo's first person confessional narrative making the reader a willing ally in the story. Rollo makes for an effective protagonist, between his self-deprecation, and his extensive vocabulary, which combines to form an almost comic effect. The book is pitched to a male audience in the main, and makes no apologies for that -- there's plenty of wish fulfillment, skirt chasing, and a definite male perspective. But the book isn't dumb either. The language is rich, the plot fast paced, and satisfying, and Rollo is a well rounded character that won't jar a feminist.

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Tags

coming of age, comedy, romantic comedy, comic fiction, satire, funny, laughter, funny stories, fiction humour, silly, humor fiction, laugh, comic, comical, laughing, political satire, laugh out loud, fratire, boychik lit, guy lit, male fiction, relationship humor, rom com, sexual politics, funny storys, funny romance, fiction humor

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Review by: Ron Wells on Jan. 06, 2010 :
This was a funny and clever read about an equally funny and clever character that seems to always be doing all the wrong things for all the right reasons.

A smooth moving, slick storyline with and a colorful cast of characters. A must read.
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