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Title: Wry Martinis by Christopher Buckley ISBN: 0-06-097742-6 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.43 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the funniest books to hit the stores in some time.
Comment: Wry Martinis is an easy to read, funny collection of essays. Buckley has a wry wit and his outlook on topics from the old Soviet Union to Fly Fishing will keep you laughing for quite a while. Especially fun is his fax feud with Tom Clancy
Rating: 2
Summary: Chris Buckley's publishers made him do it
Comment: I am normally a huge Christopher Buckley fan, and I was excited to get Wry Martinis. I knew it was a collection of (largely) previously published work, but why should that matter? Unfortunately, it turns out to matter a lot. Buckley's magazine pieces would no doubt be funny if you came upon them one at a time in a magazine, just the way Andy Rooney could be funny at the end of a 60 Minutes broadcast. Strung end-to-end, however, these short essays just become irritating. Here's one thing Buckley doesn't like. Here's another. And another. The effect is only slightly more appealing than a six-hour tape of Andy Rooney.
Rating: 3
Summary: Better than most books, but ho-hum for Buckley
Comment: Chris Buckley is my favorite author, having written masterful satires like "Thank You for Smoking" and "Little Green Men." This is not a novel, as I was dismayed to learn, but just a collection of Buckley essays. Each is cute and funny, and the set makes for nice, lite, magazine-style reading. The essay about George Bush (Sr.) and martinis is hilarious -- I still refer to an extra-dry martini (just wave the vermouth bottle over the glass, not opening it) as the "George Bush" martini. Get this book if you have read everything else Buckley has written.
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Title: God Is My Broker: A Monk-Tycoon Reveals the 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth by Christopher Buckley, John Tierney ISBN: 0060977612 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The White House Mess by Christopher Buckley ISBN: 0140249281 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley ISBN: 0060976624 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 07 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Washington Schlepped Here : Walking in the Nation's Capital by Christopher Buckley ISBN: 1400046874 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Little Green Men : A Novel by Christopher Buckley, Random House Inc. ISBN: 0060955570 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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