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Christopher Buckley's satirical gift shines in this hilarious look at the ironies of "personal freedom" and the unbearable smugness of political correctness. Bracing in its cynicism, Thank You for Smoking is a delightful meander off the beaten path of mainstream American ethics. And despite his hypertension-inducing, slander-splattered, morally bankrupt behavior--which leads one Larry King listener to describe him as "lower than whale crap"--you'll find yourself rooting for smoking's mass enabler. --Rebekah Warren --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Light pleasant satire,
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This review is from: Thank You for Smoking (Paperback)
Buckley has a light, pleasant, humorous easy-to-read style, and he fully understands the double-think, newspeak and weasel words that are inherent in the political games, pro and con, surrounding tobacco. No one comes off looking good here. Everyone is a liar with ulterior motives concerning power, perks and attention. Unfortunately, his characters are really more caricatures than anything else. Still, this is a funny work, and I'd recommend it to get the Big Picture on Big Tobacco, and far worse, Big Government.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Dull and cold - pretty much what you'd expect,
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This review is from: Thank You for Smoking (Paperback)
There's something very smug about these parodies of Washington insiders. Even The West Wing gets tedious with its dozen storylines about whether the president should say a few words against a lobbying group. At first this book has the potential to overcome that curse. It's wry. It has a morally ambiguous main character. It has some great parodies.Then it dies. It reminds me of Primary Colors in that it's way too enamored with the political process to really get things rolling. There's too much material about taking meetings and not enough about people. The characters are all broadly drawn, the females are vixens, the jokes aren't funny. When it gets to Hollywood the writer trots out the same old cliche about Hollywood producers wanting to throw any crap on the screen in order to sell products. Is this supposed to be funny? I suppose in the Player it was cool, but the joke has died from misuse. Overall this is a fluff book that should have been better. The main problem is the cool cynicism. Yeah, everyone is out to get something. Yeah that's funny sometimes, but not here. When all is said and done we're left with a bunch of unlikeable characters in a stupid book.
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This review is from: Thank You for Smoking (Paperback)
Good job. Great fun!!!The ending is kind of weak,but before you there you got a lot of fun.
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