They Eat Puppies, Don't They?
Author: Christopher Buckley
Narrator: Robert Petkoff
Unabridged: 10 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Published: 05/08/2012
Category: Fiction - Humorous
Author: Christopher Buckley
Narrator: Robert Petkoff
Unabridged: 10 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Published: 05/08/2012
Category: Fiction - Humorous
As I listened to Buckleys latest political/social satire it became clear that he was not happy with the disstaff side while writing this. I subsequently learned that he was in the process of getting a divorce during this time, which helps to explain why the two principal women the Ann Coulter type and the wife of the hero are both amoral, selfabsorbed, reprehensible and just plain ugly human beings. The book would have been more enjoyable for me if such unsparingly awful women were not such central characters in the story. Boomsday and Supreme Courtship were both better read and funnier. The absurd aspects of those stories were hilarious, but sitll credible, whereas the absurd solution to this books central issue is, well, absurd. Nevertheless, like all of Buckleys work, Eat Puppies has plenty of perfectly placed barbs that skewer the behavior of ideologues across the political spectrum. So if you think all women are bloodsucking jerks, you will probably enjoy this book even more than his earlier work.