A very funny book that’s mostly not racist! Which is pretty good considering Jack Handey is of a certain age and of a certain bent and could have made this a lot more racist. A low bar. This is a fake novel about a trip to Hawaii paid for by the narrator’s recently divorced friend. Hawaii is recreated as a kind of mid-colonial cesspit (hence the stench), full of mystery and intrigue.  So in some ways this is a kind of fake adventure novel ala […]