Has Anyone Seen My Toes?

By: Christopher Buckley, Christopher Buckley - introduction

Narrated by: Gibson Frazier

From the bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking and Make Russia Great Again comes a comic tour de force, the story of one man’s “lively and funny” (New York Journal of Books) journey through lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic.

During the pandemic, an aging screenwriter is holed up in a coastal South Carolina town with his beloved second wife, Peaches. He’s been binge-eating for a year and developed a notable rapport with the local fast-food chain Hippo King. He struggles to work—on a ludicrous screenplay about a Nazi attempt to kidnap FDR and, naturally, an article for Etymology Today on English words of Carthaginian origin. He’s told Peaches so often about the origins of the word mayonnaise that she’s developed an aversion to using the condiment. He thinks he has Covid. His wife thinks he is losing his mind. In short, your typical pandemic worries. Things were going from bad to worse even before his doctor suggested a battery of brain tests. He knows what that means: dementia!

But even in these scary times, there are plenty of things to do to distract him. His iPhone is fat-shaming him. He’s. been trying to read Proust and thinks the French novelist missed his true calling as a parfumier. And he’s discovered nefarious Russian influence on the local coroner’s face. Why is Putin so keen to control who decides who died peacefully and who by foul play in Pimento County. Could it be the local military base?

Has Anyone Seen My Toes? is a “laugh-out-loud” (Publishers Weekly) romp through a time that has been anything but funny.

Witty, witty, witty, witty,witty

Great book, make sure do not reed it in public. Others might consider you have a pseudobulbar affect.

Pleasant, light, and safely in the Buckley oeuvre

A good way to pass a flight to/from Europe. Maybe 6 times will the other passengers look at you as you laugh out loud. All in good fun. A half-buried meditation on the pandemic we all just went through, full of absurdities (that seemed slightly less absurd at the time?). Worth the listen.

Funny and informative

Christopher Buckley's dad would be very proud of him. This book was funny and packed with words I have never come across and history I have never studied. Don't miss this read

topical Buckley!

I loved the character in this very funny novel. I think everyone can relate to covid crazy.

I did not finish, no interest

Unlike most of Christopher Buckley‘s satirical novels, this one was a flop. Although I am sure there was much about the COVID era that could have been satirized, this story held no appeal for me. The characters were unlikable and silly and the roles of men and women seemed stuck in the 1950‘s rather than the relatively more enlightened 2020. It seemed like frat boy humor and annoyed me much of the time. CB‘s Thank You for Smoking and Make Russia Great Again were superb. But I can‘t recommend Has Anyone Seen my Toes.