Title: Boring? No Way!
Review: Although I have a copy of the original 2000, hardcover edition of this book (titled Boring Postcards, with the "USA"), this edition looks to be basically the same, but with a slightly different title and cheaper binding. This is a collection of photographs of postcards from the "what were they thinking?" school of public relations and tourism promotion. It's kitsch, it brings back childhood memories for Americans who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, and it's fun, pure and simple. After looking at these examples of poor planning, aesthetic ineptitude, boring "scenery" and all the rest you'll never look at a rack of postcards in a gift shop the same way again. Although boring postcards are still out there, they just don't make them like they did in the 1950s-1970s. If you buy this book, you'll find yourself enjoying it the first time you flip through it, and you're sure to pull it out for a laugh from time to time for quite a while. It won't bore you!
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