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dr sportster

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Usually I read non-fiction history,war or sociology type books but someone gave me a book called The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. You will laugh so hard you will practically choke reading this. It's the memoirs of a kid who grew up in Des Moines in the fifties. Funniest ever . Anybody read this?
 
I think my son may have emailed me an excerpt- about the kid getting a bow and arrow set, then thinking it would be cool to shoot a flaming arrow at a can of starting fluid sitting on a stump- then put a couple cans of his dad's black powder alongside, just for fun- you can imagine what happened.
 
Now I have to find that book! It sounds as good as Patric F. McManus books! Ever read They Shoot Canoes Don't They ? Need to put it down to take a breath occasionaly!
 
(quoted from post at 00:04:39 02/28/13) Now I have to find that book! It sounds as good as Patric F. McManus books! Ever read They Shoot Canoes Don't They ? Need to put it down to take a breath occasionaly!
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McManus was fantastic! His description of riding on the tailgate of a pickup careening down a mountain road while having his arms full of whatever he had to carry and clinging to the rivets on the tailgate with his butt was hilarious! "My sister- The Troll", "...we called our dog Stranger when he first showed up. After we got to know him we shortened it to "Strange"!" His best friend Retch Sweeny and his hero Rancid Crabtree!

Cop finds Pat and Retch behind a building after one of their adventures and says, "What are you boys doing back here smoking?" Reply, "This is nothing, you should have seen us when we were still on fire!"

Love it!
 
The Life and times of the Thunderbolt Kid is by Bill Bryson, a brilliant American author who lives here in England and is doing an excellent job as Chairman of the Campaign for the Preservation of Rural England.He has written numerous other books, some serious, mostly humerous, and no, you can't have him back, we need him over here.
 
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