Title: Still among the best of the breed.
Product review: "Smoking" was, without a doubt, a much funnier book than "Little Green Men." But with so much garbage passed off as literature these days (witness Oprah's recommendations), it should be an occasion for parades when books such as "Little Green Men" appear. Our culture takes itself far too seriously these days. Practically gone is the laugh-for-the-laugh's-sake type writing. Buckley, T.C. Boyle (my choice for vital literature), Martin Amis, sometimes Chabon try to keep the comic heart beating, but it is faint.On a sidenote: Did anyone happen to count the typos in "Little Green Men?" There must have been dozens, in many cases whole words left out. I edit for a living. I learned long ago that spellcheck is no substitute for eyeballs. No fault of Buckley's, obviously, but he might check into what happened.
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