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Reviewed by Gary Stout for Readers' Favorite
Life is a Pirate Ship Run by a Velociraptor, by Allison Hawn, is laugh-out-loud funny. I mean it. Don't drink or eat while reading or you may pass a miracle through your nose, necessitating a quick trip to the laundry. This novel is a hilarious romp through a normal person's psychosis as she relates incidents and events dealing with her college years, performing case work with at risk and homeless youths, jaunts into the semi-glamorous world of entertainment, and meeting those everyday people we all encounter but seldom can communicate what we're thinking as well as Ms. Hawn does. Although maybe I'm just another person 'broken in fun ways' to consider Ms. Hawn normal, but I use that particular descriptor with the kindest regards.
I highly recommend Life is a Pirate Ship to anyone who can read. Seriously, whether you need an emotional lift, have nothing better to do, have something better to do but want to put it off, or you're just wondering if you're the only person in the world that seems to be a magnet for the bizarre, then you have to read this book.
Another word of caution, don't read it when other people are around because they'll wonder at your sanity, since few things currently in print can produce the level of laugh response that Life is a Pirate Ship does; your friends and family may start speaking in whispers around you while they wait for the men in white coats to arrive. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm heading over to my favorite online storefront to purchase Ms. Hawn's previous collection of stories, then pick up my clean shirt at the dry cleaners so I can read it in style.
