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Jim Fulner

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I'm think I got this bookwyrm thing right. I ended up more-or-less manually importing ~1,000 books. I'm sure there is supposed to be any easier way.

I previously had accounts @fu@bookwyrm.social @fu@millefeuilles.cloud and @fu@bookwyrm.world, I think this one will be here to stay but I might need to find a less expensive hosting solution.

You can find my Pleroma account @hey@r.jimfulner.com

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76% complete! Jim Fulner has read 57 of 75 books.

William E. Butterworth III, Richard Hooker: MASH goes to Moscow (Paperback, 1977, Pocketbook)

WHO IS BORIS KORSKY-RIMSAKOV?

None other than the world's greatest, and sexiest, opera star, …

A parody of Jimmy Carter gives Butterworth's Hawkeye & Trapper John a Final Hurrah.

Above all I'm glad to have completed Butterworth's noncanonical "Mash goes to ..." series. This one was better than the last few. It started out very good with the supreme chairman of the USSR trying to appease his wife while trying to please his mistress. I thought we might actually get a new story. But alas within a few chapters Butterworth reverted to his standard formula of finding a way to get a bunch of people from all over the world to convene on the title location in the last chapter. All-in-all nothing to write home about but nothing to get upset about either. I actually did have a few laugh-out-loud moments & even though I'm a Jimmy Carter fan I found his very Republican take on Jim-Boy entertaining.

Richard Hooker undifferentiated, William E. Butterworth: MASH goes to Montreal (Paperback, 1979, Sphere)

Hawkeye and Trapper John assume unlikely roles as "fathers of the bride"--and US-Canadian relations may …

Butterworth is less than good

At this point I feel obligated to finish the series, I purchased them all for Pete's sake, but Butterworth has to be the laziest writer I've ever read. He constantly uses full names and titles like a Jr. High School student trying desperately to reach a minimum word count.

Like the last 8 books in his uncanonical MASH series he spends the first third of the book catching retelling you wish happened in the last book, most of the rest of it coming up with excuses for the ever increasing cast of characters from around the globe to hand to travel to the name sake city, and then in the final chapter we touch on what the back of the book says the story was about.