Title: A Robust Bouquet With No Succulent Aftertaste
Product review: I enjoyed this book. But I have seen better (and much worst) satires of self-help and of American values. This book lacks the mordancy and scathing hilarity of THANK YOU FOR SMOKING; I enjoyed it, had a few good laughs, but would not buy it for friends or recommend it. Satire it is, and good satire, but much much closer to such "non-books" as 10001 Uses for a Dead Cat, or THE RULES OF DUCT TAPE, than to the best satiric books which earn a permanent place on our book-shelves.This vintage, finally, is too light and frothy and a little "too" easy. I missed the mad brilliance I have seen in Buckley's other books and think that perhaps I would have rated this book higher if the author's other work had not given me such gleeful expectations.
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