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Slim and None | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan Jenkins
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 559321
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0385508522
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385508520
ASIN: 0385508522
Publication Date: May 3, 2005
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Long revered by his peers as one of the world's best sportswriters, and beloved by readers, Dan Jenkins is at the top of his form in Slim and None. It's packed with authentic insider gems about each of the majors and hilarious sketches of many of the characters-touring pros, officials, media, agents, caddies, and ladies-who inhabit this outrageous and endearing world of sports. Introduced in Dan Jenkins's previous uproarious novel of the pro golf tour, The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist, Bobby Joe Grooves is now forty-four and still without a win in a major championship. Bobby Joe is at the most critical point in his career-and still hell-bent on challenging PGA decorum and common sense. A student of golf lore, Bobby Joe is well aware that only a small group of stars have ever won a major at his age or older, and among them are such immortals as Nicklaus, Boros, Irwin, and Trevino. It's now or never for Bobby Joe, and excuse him for thinking that his chances are slim and none.
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 Par for the Course November 16, 2008
Author Dan Jenkins takes the career of fictional pro linkster Bobby Joe Grooves to the weekly crossroads of a veteran journeyman; the king of the 19th hole is now age 44 and is chasing a real long-shot....winning a major tournament before the sun sets on his career.
But in his path on the course is a pesky teenage phenom, Scott Pritchard, and on the cart path after the round is the 19-year-old's mother, Gwendolyn. The ongoing saga for Grooves is either headed for the water hazard or a hole-in-one with so much in play.
Though the quick read doesn't deliver a bevy of birdies, it is consistent enough for a solid par score.
 slim and none by Dan Jenkins September 1, 2008
I got this for my husband and he loves every one of his books and wants the entire collection.
 Just for Fun... March 30, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A typical Dan Jenkins book---no real redeeming social value, but a good, quick and fun read...that's what makes Dan Jenkins great...Mindless, humorous fiction about a game that's easy to love and to hate..kind of like life and love....if you like the game of golf, like to laugh and ponder the sometimes somewhat raunchy side of life, especially golf, this book is for you...perfect book for spring when golf is picking up again!! And there's always the question--"How much of this is fiction and how much is fact?"
Not quite a "Dead Solid Perfect," but in that neighborhood.
Classic Jenkins, slightly tired story April 5, 2006
The motivation to ressurect Bobby Joe Grooves is obvious: so much has changed since his previous stories in the world of golf, someone just had to poke a big hole in it. Snot-nosed prima donna teenage pros, women golfers plugging at the men's tour, Martha and her army at the door to Augusta, the old guard getting, well, old.
Much of how Jenkins rips into this is in dead keeping with his genius for actually making tales about golf, or any sport, entertaining. Probably the only drag is that Bobby Joe is more of himself. He's divorced, again, hooking up with a new girl, again, complaining about the same things, again... This could be because I came hot off of reading the earlier installments in The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist, and was looking for more new than could be delivered.
If you're a Jenkins fan, and read Bobby Joe's earlier tale, this will be a good read. If not, pick up The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist, wait half a year, and then delve in. You'll be happier, and more sane for it.
Slim and Fun!! January 13, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Figuring out how many stars to give a Dan Jenkins book requires some experience in reading this most entertaining author. I can assure you that you will most likely look a long time to find one of his efforts on the shelves at Barbara Streisand's home and Maureen Dowd probably hasn't had the pleasure either. However, from time to time there is just no substitute for a trip through the imaginitive mind of the various characters fashioned by Mr. Jenkins.
In this instance we are returning to the PGA tour with an older, somewhat wiser and thrice divorced Bobby Joe Grooves. We have been there before with Bobby Joe in "The Money - Whipped Steer - Job Three - Jack Give - Up Artist," and this novel is a decided improvement on that one.
Somehow, Bobby Joe has managed to stay on the tour for some time and now as he turns forty-four he realizes "forty-four is not a good age for a pro if he has never won a major...and I'd clean forgotten to do that in my eighteen years on the tour."
In addition to failing to bag a major, Bobby Joe has failed in his efforts to find a life partner other than his caddie, however things begin looking up in that aspect of things as he encounters Gwendolyn Pritchard, a major league "shapely adorable" and the divorced mother of a new teen age phenom on the tour, Scott Pritchard.
The story opens with these two lines, "It had to be the first bare navel on the Master's veranda. Luckily it came with a shapely adorable."
And it only gets better as we follow the twists and turns of Bobby Joe's efforts to become the winner of a major championship through the four venues where they are played that year. The story is replete with interesting and exaggerated characters and situations and you will find yourself chuckling and laughing through all 243 pages of Jenkin's latest.
Having read all of his other fiction efforts and some of his non-fiction books, I promise you that if you are a golfer, enjoy a healthy dose of non PC humor and have spent any time in Texas, there are just two chances that you will not enjoy this latest one...........
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