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    Shanks for Nothing: A Novel
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    Shanks for Nothing: A Novel
    Audiobook (abridged)5 hours

    Shanks for Nothing: A Novel

    Written by Rick Reilly

    Narrated by Nick Stevens

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The hilarious sequel to Rick Reilly's beloved bestselling golf novel Missing Links

    Life is going pretty well for Raymond "Stick" Hart. He's happily married to the former Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Club assistant pro, the beauteous Cajun firecracker Dannie, raising his rambunctious son, Charlie, and getting by writing smart-mouthed greeting cards for fifty bucks a pop. Best of all, nothing has changed at Ponky, the worst golf course in America. You still have to hook it past the toxic waste dump on No. 1 and under the billboard on No. 8, the fried-egg sandwiches are terrible but cheap, and his pal Two Down is always up for a sucker bet.
    Then, one disaster of a day, Stick's world does a ten-car pile-up. The cheapskate bastard owner of Ponky announces he's retiring to a nudist camp in Florida and selling the club to the Mayflower Club next door, a bastion of blue-blood snobbery that plans to pave Ponky over. Worse, its membership includes Stick's hated father.
    Who promptly drops dead.
    Just before Stick's pal Two Down loses $12,000 to a golf hustler who turns out to be funded by the Russian mob.
    Which is about the same time that Hoover, Ponky's worst golfer and the owner of an impressive array of useless golf gadgets purchased with his wife's money, learns she'll cut him off if he doesn't break a hundred in one month.
    Then a practical joke makes Dannie believe that Stick's been stepping out with the gorgeous new clubhouse girl, the eye-popping Kelly, and he's soon living on the forty-year-old couch in the Ponky clubhouse.
    Luckily, Stick has a solution to all his problems.
    He'll qualify for the British Open.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 2, 2006
    ISBN9780739332788
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    Shanks for Nothing: A Novel

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    • 5/5
      Read this book some time ago and loved it then - actually laughed out loud a bunch of times! Funny story that if you belong to a course you can visualize.
    • 4/5
      Apparently, Reilly was inspired to write hits after a trip to a golf course of the same name in the book and the weird characters he met there. I don't care much for golf -- "A good walk, spoiled," is Mark Twain's famous line -- but this book is laugh out loud funny filled with the most bizarre characters. There is the guy who always keeps a coat hangar in his glove compartment in case he locks his keys in the car. When asked how he gets the hangar out if his keys are locked in the car, the answer is simple, he has an extra key hidden under the bumper. Or the guy who hires some thugs to rob aq restaurant and then require everyone in the restaurant to have sex with the person next to them because he plans to be in the restaurant with a girl he can't get into bed and this is the only way. Geez. Lots of funny golf jokes, but a very enjoyable, wacky plot.