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P.J. O'Rourke

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Description:A compendium ofquotes and riffs from more than four decades of writing by P.J. O'Rourke onsubjects ranging from government ("Giving money and power to politicians islike giving car keys and whiskey to teenage boys") to fishing ("a sportinvented by insects and you are the bait") to apps ("we need a no-app app--let'scall it a nap") to be published on what would have been his 75thbirthday."P. J. O'Rourke was the funniest writer ofhis generation, one of the smartest and one of the most prolific. Now that hebelongs to the ages, P.J. takes his rightful place along with Oscar Wilde, MarkTwain and Dorothy Parker in the Pantheon of Quote Gods."--Christopher Buckley fromhis introduction When The Penguin Dictionary of ModernHumorous Quotations was published in 1994, P. J. O'Rourke had more entriesthan any living writer. And he kept writing funny stuff for another 28 years.Now, for the first time, the best material is collected in one volume.Edited by his longtime friend and member of the American Society of MagazineEditors Hall of Fame Terry McDonell, THE FUNNY STUFF is arranged in sixsections, organized by subject in alphabetical order from Agriculture toXenophobia. From his earliest days at the National Lampoon in the 1970s, through his classic reporting for Rolling Stone in the 80s and 90s tohis post-Trump, pandemic, new media observations of recent years, P.J. producedincisive, amusing copy. Not only did P.J. write memorable one-liners, he alsometiculously constructed riffs that built to a crescendo of hilarity andoutrage--and are still being quoted years later. His prose has the electricverbal energy of Tom Wolfe or Hunter Thompson, but P.J. is more flat out funny.And through it all comes his clear-eyed take on politics, economics, humannature--and fun. THE FUNNY STUFF is a book for P.J. fans to devour but also abook that will bring new readers and stand as testament to one of the trulyoriginal American writers of the last 50 years.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Funny Stuff: The Official P. J. O’Rourke Quotationary and Riffapedia. To get started finding The Funny Stuff: The Official P. J. O’Rourke Quotationary and Riffapedia, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: A compendium ofquotes and riffs from more than four decades of writing by P.J. O'Rourke onsubjects ranging from government ("Giving money and power to politicians islike giving car keys and whiskey to teenage boys") to fishing ("a sportinvented by insects and you are the bait") to apps ("we need a no-app app--let'scall it a nap") to be published on what would have been his 75thbirthday."P. J. O'Rourke was the funniest writer ofhis generation, one of the smartest and one of the most prolific. Now that hebelongs to the ages, P.J. takes his rightful place along with Oscar Wilde, MarkTwain and Dorothy Parker in the Pantheon of Quote Gods."--Christopher Buckley fromhis introduction When The Penguin Dictionary of ModernHumorous Quotations was published in 1994, P. J. O'Rourke had more entriesthan any living writer. And he kept writing funny stuff for another 28 years.Now, for the first time, the best material is collected in one volume.Edited by his longtime friend and member of the American Society of MagazineEditors Hall of Fame Terry McDonell, THE FUNNY STUFF is arranged in sixsections, organized by subject in alphabetical order from Agriculture toXenophobia. From his earliest days at the National Lampoon in the 1970s, through his classic reporting for Rolling Stone in the 80s and 90s tohis post-Trump, pandemic, new media observations of recent years, P.J. producedincisive, amusing copy. Not only did P.J. write memorable one-liners, he alsometiculously constructed riffs that built to a crescendo of hilarity andoutrage--and are still being quoted years later. His prose has the electricverbal energy of Tom Wolfe or Hunter Thompson, but P.J. is more flat out funny.And through it all comes his clear-eyed take on politics, economics, humannature--and fun. THE FUNNY STUFF is a book for P.J. fans to devour but also abook that will bring new readers and stand as testament to one of the trulyoriginal American writers of the last 50 years.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Funny Stuff: The Official P. J. O’Rourke Quotationary and Riffapedia. To get started finding The Funny Stuff: The Official P. J. O’Rourke Quotationary and Riffapedia, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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