Dope on a Rope - Oddments from the Mind of Kim Underwood

By Kim Underwood

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966840100
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Piedmont Publishing Co., Inc
• Length: 145 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Your town should be so lucky

I'm lucky, see, because I live in the same town as Kim Underwood and get to read his Sunday newspaper column. Why do people like Kim's writing? It's joyous. He is joyous. Compassion seems all out of fashion nowadays, and cynicism has boldly taken its place. Thankfully, we still have a few books out there to bring our attention to ubiquitous things. To celebrate the mundane. To contemplate the everyday matters of life. Dope on a Rope is a very guy-next-door take on life. He a well-versed snacker. His dog Buster (aka "his dogness") figures prominently in his life. And I'm pretty sure that he makes up at least one new word each week. Many of his essays read like short homilies on the state of his life. This makes perfect sense, being as he probably picked up a few techniques from his father, the minister.Everyone who wants to be a better neighbor needs to read Dope on a Rope. Good neighbors pay attention to one another and the life around them. Makes you wish Kim would buy the house next door.

Interesting to read and ponder

I grew up in New York reading almost daily columnists like Buchwald, Hamill, and Wilson Sr. I remember the "Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight as a novel and not a former class of the St. John's basketball team. So when DOPE ON A ROPE arrived, I felt comfortable reading a compilation of what I expected to be small town columns written for the Winston Salem Journal's by Kim Underwood. Talk about New York stereotyping, I found a warm, often humorous but sometimes serious look at life that could been written anywhere in this country. Don't worry Mr. Underwood, I will not tell the world about your mauve (not purple) shirt or what dope jumps from a hot air balloon attached to a bungee rope even if a Playmate is accompanying them. This compilation is fun, well written while readers gain insight into the "oddments from the mind" of a writer who makes his personal look at life a lot more interesting than canned asparagus (think what those shoots look like) or is it spinach? DOPE ON A ROPE is plain ole fun.Harriet Klausner