Why read Help! I'm a Prisoner in a Chinese Bakery?

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America's wacky, angry man of the suburbs strikes back in this uproarious free-for-all! Alan King once again turns his bright, beady eye on suburbia and finds it uproariously funny. The outrageous Mr. King is America's most peerless destroyer of America's sacred cows. Here's another blast from his loaded cigar that…

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1 author picked Help! I'm a Prisoner in a Chinese Bakery as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Maura Stone

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Regrettably, while emptying my mother’s house I discarded this book, a comedy I read and reread over the decades. The writing is funny as all get go, undiminished by age, possessing a universal quality. Which is the key to comedy: the ability to make a lot of people laugh over time, distance, cultural backgrounds, etc. Alan King was the master of comedy in this book.

From Maura's list on that make you feel great that you got the innuendos.