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Title: Not in P.J.'s league.
Review: This guy has been hyped by O'Rourke and the very talented Jonah Goldberg, but the laughs are few and far between. He just can't find the humor in every situation like P.J. can. In the Booknotes interview, Ferguson talks about how he really doesn't like writing all that much, and the lack of joy certainly shows.His 1993 (i.e. pre-WWW) essay on the Internet, which takes the general tone of "this contraption will never amount to anything" was way off base, maybe because he wandered into alt.sex (desperately searching for some grist I guess but coming away with his usual pedestrian non-insights) instead of looking at the comp.* newsgroups.
