- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Douglas Gibson (Sep 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 077104383X
- ISBN-13: 978-0771043833
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.5 x 2.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,741,406 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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After his post-war adventures in movies in New York (see Me Bandy, You Cissie) our hero returns to his Ottawa Valley home in 1923. Through a series of misunderstandings Bandy becomes the official Liberal candidate in a by-election and to the horror of the Liberal Party leaders – especially Prime Minister Mackenzie King – he wins, takes his seat in the House of Commons, and proceeds to wreak havoc there.
To finance his campaign he goes into business with Gallop’s local tycoon to smuggle booze into the Prohibition-hit United States, a profitable business until the unpleasantness with the U.S. authorities and all the shooting and wounding. But it does make him a House of Commons authority on corruption in the Canadian government, which leads to his lightning elevation to Mackenzie King’s Cabinet as Minister of Defence. Will this last?
To finance his campaign he goes into business with Gallop’s local tycoon to smuggle booze into the Prohibition-hit United States, a profitable business until the unpleasantness with the U.S. authorities and all the shooting and wounding. But it does make him a House of Commons authority on corruption in the Canadian government, which leads to his lightning elevation to Mackenzie King’s Cabinet as Minister of Defence. Will this last?
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Good fun, but not as inspired as its predecessors,
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This review is from: Me Too: The Bandy Papers (The Journals of Bartholomew Bandy, Volume 5) (Paperback)
If you've not read any of the Bandy Papers yet, don't start here - buy Three Cheers for Me and read that. Once you've read one, it's difficult not to read the others. See you here soon.Although there are some flashbacks to Bandy's bizarre Russian escapades, for the most part he is on his home turf in Me Too, causing chaos in his parents' home town of Gallop, and then moving on to Ottawa as an M.P. Those who know the series will know what to expect - a mixture of naivety, misplaced good intentions, and plain old bad judgement embroil Bandy in various unfortunate circumstances...he makes powerful enemies, powerless or fickle friends, and generally blunders around oblivious to the effect he is having on the world. Unbearable yet utimately lovable, Jack's skill throughout this series has been the balance of his protagonist's awful and endearing attributes. This volume is notably more wordy than the previous instalments, and the prose loses some of its sparkle as a result. Too much introspection on Bandy's part slows down the pace of the narrative, and the payoffs to some of the awkward situations are a little weaker than they could have been. Nevertheless, there are the usual classic and memorable moments, including a very funny scene where Bandy ends up cycling around his parents' house so that the bicycle won't be seen, and Bandy as an M.P. is something that we would only wish on Canada in fiction. Read it, but not before you read the previous four volumes (Three Cheers For Me, That's Me In The Middle, It's Me Again, and Me Bandy, You Cissie) - each one of which is guaranteed to make you laugh out loud.
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Continuing a great series....,
By Patrick E. Cochran "History Geek" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Me Too: The Bandy Papers (The Journals of Bartholomew Bandy, Volume 5) (Paperback)
Donald Jack has written some of the funnies scenes I have ever read. Bandy's last flight in his Vimy is a classic. The series is 5 stars all the way (until the last two books). If you like humor and/or great historical fiction (they aren't often found together!), you will love these books.
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