- Taschenbuch: 368 Seiten
- Verlag: Atlantic Monthly Pr; Auflage: 1st Pbk. Ed (September 1996)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0871136538
- ISBN-13: 978-0871136534
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,9 x 15,2 x 2,6 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.2 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (11 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 371.163 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Readers can be excused for a little motion sickness when reading this collection of pieces from P.J. O'Rourke. To go from preaching "Armed Love" (whatever that is) to being anointed as the ultra-libertarian Cato Institute's favorite humorist in only 25 years is an astounding transformation.
Still, whether it's New Left juvenilia or high-octane auto journalism scrawled in the Age of Cocaine, one thing holds true: O'Rourke writes one hell of a sentence. Here's P.J.'s impression of Nixon explaining Vietnam to a bunch of hippies: "To be really out front, I get off on ego trips, power games. But, like that's where I'm at ... I mean you can put me down for kicking your ass but don't put me down for being an ass-kicker 'cause that's my movie." Then fast-forward 17 years: "Sure, everyone says the Sixties were fun. Down at the American Legion hall, everybody says World War II was fun, if you talk to them after 10:00 p.m." Age and Guile is fun, whatever time it is.
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"No time left for pamphleting and leafleting, picketing and petitioning, talking and walking around. Time to TRASH THE STATE!" Abbie Hoffman? Huey Newton? No, it's P. J. O'Rourke, circa 1970. Now America's most provocative (and conservative) satirist - O'Rourke was at one time a raving pinko, with the scab on his bleeding heart to prove it. Through twenty-five years of his writing, Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut guides us on the journey that has taken O'Rourke from the lighthearted fun of the revolutionary barricades to the serious business of the nineteenth hole.
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First and foremost: it is worth noting (and it pains an saddens me that this is the case) that the phrase "Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut" is the first time I have seen a three-item list with correct grammar in a book printed in America after World War II.
Second, and not quite so foremost: P. J. O'Rourke is a very, very funny guy. He is completely politically incorrect, in most cases, and is therefore more than happy to pull out the jokes, puns, and other humorous concepts his more liberal colleagues have left to the dust.
Third, and not really far up there on the scale, but still worth mentioning: in most ways, P. J. O'Rourke is a tremendous boon to the right-wing American. He's not afraid to take pot-shots at just about anything, including fellow members of the right (Pat Buchanan is roasted almost as often as Bill Clinton), and he's not afraid to admit his mistakes, such as endorsing Clinton in 1992.
Combine those, and for most of this book you have a tremendously funny read, an almost literary roasting of such things as book tours, drinking, stupid sports, Whitewater, various makes and models of automobile, and the like. Unfortunately, it's the part that falls outside the realm of "most" that keeps this from being one of the finest political collections of the past decade. There are times when O'Rourke, who seems to be sitting right on the Libertarian partyline, veers far off to the left, and if he is to be trusted he was stuck out there in at least one case by the head of the Cato Institute (making me wonder how Libertarian they truly are), and he also has many of the strange and illogical hang-ups that keep me from ever wanting to vote Republican. He also, and he is well aware of it, asks a lot of our indulgence in the book's second section, a collection of short stories published (well, most of them) in the National Lampoon during his tenure as editor in chief there. Anyone who still wonders why I abhor the very idea of self-publishing need only read the section "The Truth About the Sixties and Other Fictions" in this book. It's shameless, awful, contorted, constipated prose, and O'Rourke is fully aware of this, and even says so in a few places.
But if you skip that section, and immediately stop reading any time you find one of those places where conservatives suddenly dismiss anything relating to logic (I have often theorized it's remnants of too many drugs during the sixties), this is most definitely a worthwhile book. Both the automobile and sports sections brought forth guffaws. And if you've ever heard me guffaw, you'll know that's soemthing to stay away from.
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If you or someone you know and love is looking for great material for a speach competition, try the stories "Dynamite" and "Another Tale of Uncle Mike." I used them to get to the state competition. The book is all-around hillarious with great little tips such as how to out-drink an Irish wedding party when they have a few hours head-start. It also has some great lines such as "none of us were seriously hurt, except for Terry, who had part of a hash pipe blown up his nose, something they had a hard time understanding at the emergency room." Buy it and laugh.
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I first discovered P.J.O'Rourke in the pages of various automotive publications. In addition to being a well-known political humorist, he is also an automotive enthusiast, as am I. This book, the second of his that I have read, is quite good once you get past the somewhat slow start. The second half of the book ("Drives to Nowhere," "Bad Sports") is wonderful. O'Rourke is a master of simile, metaphor, and analogy. Only the fiction writer Tom Robbins compares to him in this regard, in my opinion. I had my wife read a selection from the book, and she enjoyed it so much that she started reading it aloud to me. We laughed so hard our jaws hurt and our eyes teared! Whether you agree with his political bent or not, you cannot help but to enjoy the man's way with words; he is a true wordsmith. He can really "turn a phrase," as the trite expression goes. I can't wait to read more of his prose.
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P.J is a real liberal deep down...
I have enjoyed P.J.s stuff in rolling stone in the past. As a real live liberal i like his sense of individual liberty, happinesss and the pursuit thereof. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 11. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
Stellar! (After the first 41 pages)
Having read all of P.J. O'Rourke's books, I can safely say that this was one of my favorites. Save for the first 41 pages, I was thoroughly entertained and stayed up 'til the wee... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. März 1999 von mwotoole@hotmail.com
Despite a slow start, P.J. O'Rourke is as funny as ever.
Just as the 1960's apparently exists in the drug-saturated memory of Mr. O'Rourke, his recollections ramble on like a man on a melancholy trip down Memory Lane, joint in hand. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. August 1998 veröffentlicht
Essential PJ Reading.......at the very least
I have read all of PJ's books now, far from a simple fetish for his eye openning descriptions of society and its events, I have more of an addtiction. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. Februar 1998 veröffentlicht
If there's a wittier, funnier writer out there, they're dead
The epitome of Republican, yes I said republican humor. Liberals don't have the handle on humor, obviously, and P.J. has done it again with his O'Rourke finesse! Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. Dezember 1997 von Susan Melkus
His hair still doesn't look too good
I have recently taken to reading O'Rourke's book's (Give War a Chance, Holidays in Hell, Republican Party Reptile, and All the Trouble in the World) and have found them all... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 1. Dezember 1997 von Marjorie James
A disillusioned idealist
P.J. O'Rourke is a good example of someone who got just a little bit too inebriated on the leftist politics in the 60's and is still working on his hangover. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. Juni 1997 veröffentlicht
Collection of Authors first 25 years of writing
Marking the first quarter century of PJ O'Rourkes life as a writer, You see him transform from a liberal hippie 60's writer into a 90's writer with Republican veiws, but still... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. Dezember 1996 veröffentlicht
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