Review: Funny Boys
User Review - Granny - GoodreadsQuit reading...too much profanity and sex. Read full review
Review: Funny Boys
User Review - Joe Bartello - GoodreadsA book about Jewish comedians should have some really funny bits even if it is about mobsters. No such luck with this story about The Catskills in its heyday. The only guy with a sense of humour is real-life head of the mob, Albert Anastasia. Oy! Maybe I expected too much. Should I feel guilty? Read full review
Review: Funny Boys
User Review - Cecily - GoodreadsNot one of my favorites. I was hoping for this to be a funny book but it wasn't. And being at the clubs in the Catskills just reminded me of "Dirty Dancing". I wouldn't recommend this book. Read full review
Review: Funny Boys
User Review - Johanna - GoodreadsExcellent book, although I "listened" to the audiobook rather than reading it. One of the best, funny books in awhile and I recommend it. Read full review
Review: Funny Boys
User Review - Faye - GoodreadsAdler, Warren Allison, Dorothy Balducci, David Barker, Clive Barnhardt, Milton Banks, Russell Baker, Kevin Connolly, Michael Coulter, Catherine Cussler, Clive Erskine, Barbara Frey, Stephen Gaiman ... Read full review
Review: Funny Boys
User Review - Mel - GoodreadsBrownsville, New York in the 1920s and 1930s belonged to 'the Combination' or as they're more commonly known as the infamous, 'Murder Inc'. This was a group of notorious Jewish gangsters who carried ... Read full review
Review: Funny Boys
User Review - Brenda - GoodreadsPredictable Mob soap opera...not for me. Could only make it through the first half--then read the end which was exactly as expected. Read full review
Review: Funny Boys
User Review - Seana - GoodreadsEnjoyable and a pretty quick read. Takes a while to get used to the old-timey dialect and the yiddish-infused conversations but it's an interesting look at a time when the Catskills were the hot vacation spot for all the NYC gangsters. Read full review
Review: Funny Boys
User Review - Publishers Weekly vol. 255 iss. 3 p. 152Set mostly in the Borscht Belt, Adler’s satiric take on 1930s New York gangsters falls short of the mark set by such other novels of his as The War of the Roses . Mickey Fine, an itinerant entertainer ... Read full review
