Baja Oklahoma

by Dan Jenkins and Jenkins

Book Overview

Dan Jenkins' second best-known novel, Baja Oklahoma , features protagonist Juanita Hutchins, who can cuss and politically commentate with the best of Jenkins' male protagonists. Still convincingly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689111738
• ISBN13: 9780689111730
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

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Dan Jenkins is master of the redneck simile. Also highly recommend You Gotta Play Hurt and Semi-Tough.

Buy it By The Gross

If only for Juanita Faye's list of favorite Country songs, this is a worthwhile purchase. I've had to buy many as I tend to lose muscle control while laughing and rip them up. Even the sections out of sequence are convulsive. The nice part of this is you don't have to know diddly about Country music, football or Ft. Worth to have a whale of a good time. Why don't these people live near me? Why don't I move to Ft. Worth? Admittedly, a quarter of a century later it has changed but the book is as wildly funny now as ever. As my title suggests, I buy several copies at once, some to give away and more to replace ones that self-destruct. Quit reading reviews of this book and just buy it.

May be the funniest book ever written!

This book is so funny that one feels one must read portions aloud to anyone within hering distance. The dialogue is brilliant. Though very broad, it is always true and real. I only wish Eric Partridge were still alive....he would have found countless words - and lines - to incoporate into his "Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English." The fact that it takes place mostly in a Texas bar and is about country-Western music should not obscure the fact that this book is a kind of minor masterpiece. Bravo!

I can quote much of it from memory. It's that good.

Marvelous. Magnificent. Fill in your favorite superlative and go for broke.I've read this book so many times I can quote much of it from memory, but it never gets stale. I'm always entertained ... and deeply impressed not only with Jenkins' style and talent, but with his earthy insight into the human condition and the latent goodness in us all.You can live a perfectly fine life without Dan Jenkins, but you're missing important things to think about if you ever finish laughing.

The best book I have ever read! Outrageously funny!

I read this book many years ago and loaned it out. It never came back! I have searched everywhere for a copy. Dan Jenkin's book inspired me so much and made me laugh til I cried! I can't remember all 10 of his "The 10 Stages of Drunkeness" referenced in the book, but my favorite one is number seven. I can't use all that language here but it's the level you reach at dinner time!! I must have this book because the book I have been working on is somewhat similiar to "Baja Oklahoma". I can't wait to read it again I would like nothing more than to somehow reach him and give him credit for such great work. Any ideas?