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 Boomsday - Christopher Buckley
Newest Review: ... settled, productive member of a DC based PR company. Randy Jepperson is a senator from the great state of Massachusetts, who ... more  ... lost a leg in that same minefield, and now has his heart set on a seat in the Oval office, a feat he plans to accomplish by some outlandish statements (telling the current president to "Shut the **** up" live on national TV, for example) and some even more outlandish actions (taking off his prosthesis during speeches and shaking it for dramatic effect, for example).
When Cassandra and Jepperson team up to take on the White House with an outrageous solution to the mounting social security debt, the aforement...more |
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Boomsday - Christopher Buckley: Thank You For Dying... (932 words)
by - written on 13/12/08 (Very useful, 208 readings)
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You may know Buckley from his previous work, notably "Thank You for Smoking". It's very hard to describe this book without making it sound far-fetched, worrying or silly-verging-on-frankly-ridiculous, as I found out while trying to recommend it whole-heartedly to colleagues and friends. How can you explain that a book about "incentivising suicide" and "US political campaigns" is not just "fun" but the most hilarious thing you've read in ages? Those words rarely appear in the same sentence, but this book is unfortunately just that: an ingenious tale of spin doctors and radical cost-cutting suggestions that are ... Read the complete review
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