Not Enough Indians: A Novel

By Harry Shearer

Book Overview

A Los Angeles Times bestseller in hardcover. Not Enough Indians is the bitingly funny satire about a down and out town who tempt fate by having themselves declared a sovereign Indian nation and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932112464
• ISBN13: 9781932112467
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Justin, Charles & Co.
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.6" x 0.8" x 5.7"

Customer Reviews

Certainly better than that

I grabbed this at the library and polished it off over two evenings. Good stuff, I was suprised to see any negative reviews here. If you like Carl Hiaasen you'll like this. Although it's not quite as over-the-top it's also does without Carl's moralizing. If anything, it was just a little too short.

very Entertaining

One should know the brand of humor of this author. The novel starts out slowly, but after the second chapter becomes very entertaining. I am sure that every one knows Harry Shearer. This would be a good novel to take on a trip or at the beach. I am sure that it is something that you do not have to ponder and think deep thoughts to figure out underlying things going on in this novel. Delightful

A Winner-Buy this Book!

I laughed till I cried! Coming on top of the Abramnoff/Reed scandals in DeeCee, you couldn't make this stuff up! The plot sounds like it is right out of the Washington Post funny pages. Shearer has come up with a uproarious combination of charactors rights out of The Simpsons intermixed with tales of real life politics. The trouble is-this could all be really happening!

Laughed Until I Cried

As a long time Simpsons fan, I was thrilled to see that Harry Shearer had written his first novel, NOT ENOUGH INDIANS, and even more thrilled to see it was partially set in a fictitious town in upstate New York, very much like the type of town I grew up in. Once I started reading, the exciting and hilarious rollercoaster ride began: With his finely honed eye for the absurd and the outrageous, Shearer swept me into the ever-amusing world of small town politics with its overly earnest, self-important players, the machinations of government lobbying, and the well oiled, craftily calculated operatons of a glitzy, cheesy Vegas-style casino, plopped in the middle of New England. Without missing a beat, Shearer nailed every hilarous nuance, and made me laugh so hard, I cried. If you like your comedy sharp, smart and biting, and love a novel populated with a host of characters entirely unaware of their horrific yet charming flaws, then NOT ENOUGH INDIANS is the perfectly delightful and satisfying read you're looking for.

Smart, funny ensemble cast

I'm a fan of Harry Shearer. His work tends to fall into one of two categories: singular and personal (like his weblog or radio show); and ensemble (like The Simpsons, or Spinal Tap). Not Enough Indians is interesting because, as a novel, you'd expect it to be personal, but it is actually a wickedly funny ensemble comedy, in the same vein as A Mighty Wind. The characters are all engaging oddballs, and the whole situation (a nowhere town invents itself as an Indian tribe and opens a casino) is both funny and political. I give it an A.