You Only Live Until You Die (Israel Bond Oy-Oy-7 Book 4)

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Quite successful back when they were published, Weinstein's short novels were far from the Harvard Lampoon approach to parody. While you get over the top shots at Ian Fleming's dedicated product placement and cocktail design Oy-Oy-7 instructing The first adventure of Israeli superspy Israel Bond, agent Oy-Oy-7, licensed to kill While you get over the top shots at Ian Fleming's dedicated product placement and cocktail design Oy-Oy-7 instructing the making of a chocolate egg cream takes this to the extreme and some surreal side trips that make me wonder what Weinstein was indulging in at the time, but mixed in with this you also get a lot of Borscht Belt quality humour including some scenes at a Borscht Belt comedy show and a fair bit of crude sexist humour that's very much of its time, and somewhat appalling and unfunny these days.

Mind you, the actual plot of the book concludes in a way that would make the producers of Danger 5 stand up and salute. I flipped between the audio version and the Kindle book.

The audio version is worth a listen, as the narrator turned out to have considerable skill with voices, andbrings something extra to the text. Jan 29, Lavendersbluegreen rated it it was amazing. Okay, it obviously takes place in another time so there are definitely some scenes where the hero is a product of his times and therefore a tad At any rate, it was just super funny and at times kinda weird I enjoyed this parody quite a bit though. Jul 05, Steven Kent rated it liked it. The humor is sharp, but it helps to know something about kosher laws.

Take it in doses, though Francine rated it it was amazing Shelves: I could not stubbly thing from beginning to end. I read this book in record time.

May 27, Robert rated it really liked it Recommended to Robert by: An hilarious send up of the James Bond fad. Sep 12, E. Gail Chandler rated it really liked it. Weinstein--not his real name the Internet tells me-- isn't Thurber or Buchwald but a lifetime after I read this book, I'm still laughing. Nov 27, David Eppenstein rated it liked it. I read this book back in the '60's when James Bond was huge and I was a teenager. The books were fun and amusing. Oct 11, Harold rated it it was amazing.

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Aaron rated it liked it May 22, The more you know the James Bond stories, the better the appreciation for the silliness of these books. I think I know Mr.

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Bond quite well so I really, really enjoyed them. No knowledge of Yiddish or Hebrew is required but the more you know of Jewish customs, the greater the appreciation you will have for the way that Mr. Weinstein lampoons both Gentiles and Jews with equal hilarity. Tell us what you think of the series. Give your grade and comments. Ernst Holzknicht, is operating out of a secret Japanese location to bring back the Third Reich, or parts of it.

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