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Review: This book isn't funny, but it's piercing and intelligent. There are scores of well placed blows (most below the belt) to common hypocrisy and senselessness. But. Using a picture depicting a young woman's pain and horror (a picture which also allegorizes the senseless destruction wrought on the Vietnamese people by the US air force) as a gag doesn't work. Why is it tasteless and offensive? Because it uses someone's real suffering for a cheap gag about Lara Flynn Boyle's figure. Bill Maher should be supported - he makes observations the rest of us harbor secretly. But until he learns that using real pain for a gag without any depth makes him a worthless hack, don't give him your money.
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