Little Green Men, Christopher Buckley
Little Green Men, Christopher Buckley
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Little Green Men

Author: Christopher Buckley

Narrator: Mark Linn-Baker

Abridged: 6 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/05/2000


Synopsis

In 1994, Christopher Buckley published one of the most acclaimed and successful comic novels of the decade, Thank You for Smoking. Now Buckley returns to the strange land of Washington, D.C., in Little Green Men, a millennial comedy of manners about aliens and pundits . . . and how much they have in common.
        
The reluctant hero of this hilarious novel is John Oliver Banion, a stuffy Washington talk-show host, whose privileged life is thrown into upheaval when aliens abduct him from his exclusive country-club golf course.
        
But were his gray-skinned captors aliens . . . or something far more sinister? After Banion is abducted again--this time in Palm Springs--he believes he has been chosen by the extraterrestrials to champion the most important cause of the millennium, and he embarks on a crusade, appearing before a convention of UFO believers and demanding that Congress and the White House seriously investigate UFOs. His friends and family suspect that Banion is having some kind of manic-depressive midlife crisis and urge him to seek therapy before his credibility as a pillar of the punditocracy is ruined.
        
So John Oliver Banion must choose: keep his establishment status or become the leader of millions of impassioned and somewhat scruffy new friends who want to expose the government's secret alien agenda.
        
Little Green Men proves once and for all that the truth is out there. Way out there. And it reaffirms Christopher Buckley's status as the funniest humanoid writer in the universe.

Coming soon from Christopher Buckley:   One of Our Whales Is Missing

About Christopher Buckley

Christopher Buckley is a novelist, essayist, humorist, critic, magazine editor, and memoirist. His books include Thank You for Smoking, The Judge Hunter, Make Russia Great Again, and The Relic Master. He worked as a merchant seaman and White House speechwriter. He was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor and the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mal on October 12, 2023

WONDER WHERE UFOS COME FROM? Perhaps it requires a rarefied sense of humor to appreciate Christopher Buckley, but you wouldn’t know it from the sales figures on his books. Anyone who can write a novel with endlessly eccentric characters named Sir Reginald Pigg-Vigorish, Col. Roscoe J. Murfletit, Gene......more

Goodreads review by Bandit on March 06, 2016

Much as I enjoy a good satire, they are quite difficult to find. At least the nonpolitical ones. So naturally one must settle for the political ones, for which Buckley is pretty famous. And so this is a story of a pompous self important wealthy and well connected Princeton educated Washington pundit......more

Goodreads review by Robin on February 07, 2010

Christopher Buckley scares me a lot. Not only is he a Washington insider, he's the son of a respected writer. So this stuff could all be real. And if it is, we're hosed. Another excellent book from Buckley, this one concerning UFOs, aliens, and government conspiracy. I found this to be laugh out loud......more

Goodreads review by Samuel on August 18, 2015

It is becoming increasingly difficult to satire modern politics as the reality is a depressing joke enough. If you think the UK has it bad, that is nothing compared to the two party lobby based system in American that is riper for corruption than a PC still running Windows 95. Christopher Buckley is......more

Goodreads review by Jason on August 05, 2021

THE‌ ‌GREAT‌ ‌COMPLETIST‌ ‌CHALLENGE:‌ ‌In‌ ‌which‌ ‌I‌ ‌revisit‌ ‌older‌ ‌authors‌ ‌and‌ ‌attempt‌ ‌to‌ ‌read‌ every‌ ‌book‌ ‌they‌ ‌ever‌ ‌wrote‌ Currently‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌challenge:‌ ‌Isaac‌ ‌Asimov's‌ ‌Robot/Empire/Foundation‌ |‌ ‌Margaret‌ Atwood‌ |‌ ‌JG‌ ‌Ballard‌ |‌ Clive‌ ‌Barker‌ |‌ Christopher......more


Quotes

"Little Green Men is a delicious, ingenious treat. Christopher Buckley is an author of many talents, with a range of abilities that includes a penetrating comic intelligence and a deft flair for storytelling that makes this novel a truly joyous page-turner."
--Joseph Heller

What distinguished literary critics are saying about Christopher Buckley

"One of the best and surest political humorists in America."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"One of the rarest specimens, the authentically comic writer."
--The Boston Globe

"One of the best social satirists of his generation."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"A superb writer of politically incorrect satire."
--Entertainment Weekly

"Washington's pre-eminent satirist."
--The Washington Monthly

"A smoother, funnier and more refined heir apparent to Art Buchwald's throne."
--Publishers Weekly