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Summary: This One Takes No Prisoners
Review: P.J. O'Rourke offers hope to all of us conservatives who really believe that logic and reasoning have a place in the world. Not only does he mercilessly shred the modern neo-liberals who talk a lot about caring for their fellow man as long as they don't have to get their hands dirty, he shatters the stereotype that the Don Henleys of the world would foist upon everyone who thinks overpopulation is a little overblown. O'Rourke is no Falwell follower, he is coarse, he is confident and he is worldly. He is, in short, a breath of fresh air in an underinformed country that takes itself far too seriously
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Summary: putting our problems in a different prospective
Review: P.J. O'Rourke writes a well researched book dealing with a lot of the 'problems' that our world faces. Through the book he counter acts a lot of the doomy predictations that people have made about things like the environment, overpopulation and famine by providing articulate information about why the predictations are wrong. The book is easy to read and is pretty funny also.
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Summary: Funny and Thought Provoking
Review: The book looks at a wide variety of issues and offers a fresh perspective on each. O'Rourke is a funny and talented writer. The book seems to be well researched. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
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Summary: America's foremost humourist on, well, everything
Review: The perfect antidote to all the fin de siecle hysteria parrotted by the self-righteous in order for them to have an adequate sense of self-esteem; PJ O'Rourke, America's funniest man of letters, has a long hard look at the issues that seem to have most people upset at this point in history and, quite frankly, can't see what all the fuss is about.From the rainforests of South America (best seen in air-conditioned comfort from a six-lane freeway) to war torn Somalia (close the borders and give them all guns) PJ rips into some modern myths and fashionable worries making most of the world's worry-worts looking stupid and ill-informed to boot. This is a witty and informative read, not something you'd care to read on public transport because you'll annoy everybody laughing out loud. The prefect present for the po-faced, ribbon-wearing, organic freaks who are becoming more and more scared of modern science as modern science becomes more and more effective but conversely is harder to understand, such that they'd rather cure cancer with marjoram than radiotherapy. PJ at the height of his powers, enjoy with a fine blended scotch.
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Summary: PJ Get's Down
Review: This book is like the best of P.J. O'Roarke: he tells it like it is. He slams academe, silly government, and any place else that they don't give people freedom. I Love where PJ goes to the Rain Forest of Peru. I read this book at all times: when I wake up, when I'm sitting there bored in the car while they change out my starter, at night while everyone else is asleep. I'm there chuckling under my blanket with a flashlight, and I'm nearly forty. YOu should buy this book, or anything else by PJ O'Roarke--and if you get his personal e-mail address, please let me know, because I really want to write to him personally. They won't let me register my real age, so let me now say emphatically that I am not eight years old.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read. O'Rourke's analysis is dead on accurate and entertaining at the same time.
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Summary: Liberals will have all the trouble in the world
Review: Who but P.J. O'Rourke could possible compare Bangladesh and Fremont, CA and get away with it. You will find yourself almost involuntarily nodding in agreement with O'Rourke as he questions what really separates the two and why Bangladesh is the nation that it is. Does overpopulation really have the impact we have been lead to believe it does? Not in P.J. O'Rourke's view. O'Rourke also takes on famine, the environment, and race hatred with equal humor and cynicism. If you want to convince a liberal or someone who is just forming his or her political opinions, you couldn't do better to convince them than this book.
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Summary: A Funny Conservative?
Review: Yes, its possible. That there is in real life a friendship between O'Rourke and Hunter S. Thompson has always struck me as being clear proof that God has a sense of humor. Read Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (when Thompson was at his best) and this book by O'Rourk, and even though they come from opposite poles politically, they are brothers in arms against hypocrisy and smugness. Yet, where Hunter has, in my opinion, lost some traction in the past few years, O'Rourke seems to keep getting stronger, more mature, and , simply, better. This is a funny, intelligent, entertaining, enlightening book. If you can't laugh at it, you are still a liberal. Give it a few years.
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