Lynda C. (Readnmachine) reviewed on 2/23/2021 + 1452 more book reviews

Adult material; sexual content.

This is an odd little book, essentially a collection of bawdy stories collected by folklorist Vance Randolph but never included in his scholarly publications because of the subject matter.

It's all dressed up with serious introductions, footnotes, and references, but at its heart (and elsewhere), it's a collection of naughty tales about traveling salesmen, farmers' daughters, dim-witted farm boys, libertine preachers, sexually frustrated widows, brothels, barrooms, bedrooms, and the misadventures that occur therein. Some of the stories may be familiar -- in fact, my dad's favorite blue joke is in there -- and the afterwords following most of the tales trace them back in time, some as far as the middle ages.

Indeed, the ultimate moral may be that there's no such thing as a new dirty joke, so if you're in the mood for a retelling of some blue classics, this is an amusing way to spend an evening.

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