Holidays in Hell (O’Rourke, P. J.)
October 30, 2019 - Comment
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A clearly over the top but at the same time brilliantly observed series of essays on various holiday locations P.J. O’Rourke, is in my opinion one of those authors, who deserve a disclaimer. If you take things literally, he is likely to offend and mincing words or trying to appear a happy go lucky ‘we are all special in our own ways’ is clearly not his forte. Most of the time he is over the top, and not just slightly so.At the same time, I found this book very well observed and in many ways not as extreme as some of his other writing (the opening story in the car focused…
Historically funny This is almost thirty years old. I had the paperback as a student. How did that happen!AndWhere did the Belfast section go? That’s really what I bought it for. ‘Nobody wants to see an Irish girl in a string bikini’, ‘you shouldn’t stack poor people who drink’. I’m quoting from memory from the early nineties.Excellent and terribly disappointing. Buy it unless you’re from NI; then you should buy it and complain. We’ve been cut.
Absorbing and funny A collection of travel essays. Most are very interesting, insightful and often very funny. Occasionally too ranty but don’t let that put you off.