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Summary: Great book!
Review: This is P.J. O'Rourke's finest, funniest book. Period.
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Summary: Another PJ Triumph
Review: This is PJ doing what he does best: scampering about the globe and poking insightful fun at everything in sight. When he's not bashing on the French or shuddering at the lifestyle of the Polish, he's wandering around Epcot Center or Heritage USA. A couple of classic PJ quotes... "I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime." "The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know." Buy this book! No humor writer does it better, or humorist for that matter.
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Summary: An insightful, intelligent, yet decidedly bizarre travelogue
Review: Wonder what it would be like to travel to dangerous places as an American tourist? Places like Lebanon, El Salvador, The Phillippines, and Palestine (all during times of active insurrection, of course)? No need... P. J. has done it for you. Reading this book you really get the feeling of having been to these places. It's a miracle P. J. survives even just the opening chapter, a casual ramble across Lebanon during their civil war. His sense of humor through all this is reminiscent of Dave Barry, full of flippant remarks and strange juxtapositions, yet on a deeper level his observations are also deadly serious. (They are occasionally quoted in decidedly serious policy magazines such as "The Economist", for example.) Reading this book may explain for you a lot about why the third world is at it is, but it's also a fun read and a good adventure at the same time.
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Summary: Razor sharp
Review: You'll never read this in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, and NG is all the poorer for it. P.J. O'Rourke is never politically-correct and he visits places on the planet from which most people would like to escape...the result is a spot on, razor sharp, keenly observed travelogue that is side-splittingly funny, in a tragic sort of way. O'Rourke has a wonderful way of spotting irony, silliness, and official absurdity, and letting all of the air out of pompous, ill-conceived notions. In short, he is the UN's worst nightmare. For anyone who has travelled or ever interacted with any government agency anywhere--especially our own--this book is a must read.
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