This book was fucking hilarious.I read Thank You For Smoking a couple years ago, which is probably Buckley's best known book. It was pretty funny. I happened to see Supreme Courtship at Half Price Books a few weeks ago, along with a shelf full of his other novels that I didn't know existed. I gra...
If you like witty, erudite essays, read this book. Sure, Buckley can sometimes be a bit too Yalie in the naive "but why can't they just eat cake?" mode. But overall, take Kurt Vonnegut essays, add a bit of unapologetic erudition, and you'll find a whole bunch of fun topics to enjoy and chortle ...
Written in a pre-9/11 world, No Way to Treat a First Lady is a withering satire of the Clinton administration, in particular the relationship between the "philandering" President whose indiscretions run from the time he was governor all the way to the Lincoln Bedroom and the "substantive" First L...
My review published in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1999:LITTLE GREEN MENBy Christopher Buckley Random House; 300 pages; $24.95 Anyone who has ever stared in horror at one of the arrogant, priggish stars of a Sunday morning pundit show and wished upon said star a nice, long proctological consul...
Outraged over the mounting Social Security debt, Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger and member of Generation Whatever, incites massive cultural warfare when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. Her modest proposal ca...
In the spirit of Lawrence of Arabia who freed the Arabs, so also Florence of Arabia bravely set out to free the women of the Middle East from gender injustice in an oppressive theocracy. Every sentence in this story is packed with humor, farce, irony, satire, irreverence, mockery, or exaggerated...
Wry Martinis by Christopher Buckley (pp. 256)Acclaimed satirist, Christopher Buckley puts together a collection of previously published magazine articles. I’m a fan of Buckley’s fiction novels and his travel non-fiction is top notch. For the first half of book, I found the title of the book to...
Marking the thirtieth anniversary of Theophilus North, this beautiful new edition features Wilder's unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. The last of Wilder's works published during his lifetim...
Check out my other reviews at talesfromideath.blogspot.com This is a book I’ve wanted to read for some time now. I’m a massive fan of Jason Reitman’s film adaptation, starring Aaron Eckhart and knew that if the film’s style was lifted faithfully from the novel that I’d be in for a hell of a re...
Julian Booth (to whom this book is in part dedicated) is the kind, gentle, omnicompetent Briton who had been with my parents almost thirty years as cook and house manager. The nickname “Jules” was bestowed on him by David Niven. Jules nodded through his thick glasses and said quietly, “Yes, Chris...