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Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism Customer Reviews
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"Irreverent" Says the Jacket. How About: Irrelevant?
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I guess you have to be a solid fan of P.J.'s to appreciate this all-over-the-farm, what's-he-talking-about effort. Too many times more than once I had to closely re-read several lines to figure out what he's trying to say.
For instance....
"Perhaps disaffected experimental colossus carvers, young barley-beer addicts, and aspiring scribes with papyrus sheets full of edgy new hieroglyphics had crash pads in the Great Pyramid of Khufu." -so he says. [Page 92] Huh? This kind of rambling clarity goes on page after page after page.... O'Rourke is obviously one writer who says things in 30 words where others can get the idea out in 10. I guess, though, this must be his attraction [Check-out all the 4- and 5-star reviews!] ...as he mixes up thoughts and topics in paragraph blends that oftentimes seem confusing, endless, awkward, haphazard, and occasionally meaningless.
Hey, P.J. If you have something important you wanna' tell us, why put it in code?! "Why Americans Hate Foreign policy"? OK. Why!?? --I Still don't know from this chapter.
O'Rourke's in Egypt. He's in Kosovo. He offers his slant on 9/11, Kuwait, Iraq and the Nobel Prize. He's genuinely all over the place with his "absurdist" wit ...and there's little tie-in to any of it. -Why, there's (supposedly clever) rambling irrelevance on every page! "Peace Kills"? I'm still not sure what the title has to do with what I just read. --More like "Peace Kills" kills the spirit of clarity and meaning in writing and reading.
For those that enjoyed this book, I respect your patience, insight and appreciation for the random word. For those that require something more straightforward, try Mark Steyn.
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