The Angry Mountain (1980)

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This book farted in my mouth in the first chapter. It spent a few chapters trying to convince me that I was actually enjoying a nice ice cream sunday, but by about chapter 5 there was no doubt that the taste in my mouth was indeed fart.The front cover makes promises that "she was beautiful and depraved..." and suggests some hilarious 1950's misogyny with an image of a naked woman covering herself on the cover. The text excerpt on the back cover is misleadingly pieced together from sentences in various chapters of the book to imply that this book may be an uncomfortably amusing romance novel. What it turned out to be was a groan-inducing string of minor conflicts centered on an alcoholic coward who (view spoiler)[COULD HAVE SOLVED ALL OF THE CONTROVERSY MULTIPLE TIMES BY DISPLAYING EVEN THE TINIEST SET OF BALLS. The main character must deliver a message to an old war buddy that he happens to see on the other side of the airport. A third war buddy's life depends on this message being delivered. What does the main character do? He decides to go check in to his hotel first, and will deliver the message later when he feels like it. (hide spoiler)]

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