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Title: ho-hum humor
Review: Can't resist adding a note of dissent to the overwhelming chorus of praise this book has received over the years. "Humorous," I suppose, but in a very broad, Vaudevillian way, where you see the joke coming from so far away that when it lands it causes a groan of impact, not a laugh. If you enjoy slapstick--the verbal equivalent of "Police Academy" movies--this may be the book for you, but I found it tired, strained, banal.
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