Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Sunday, November 05, 2006


We smile because Carl Hiaasen may someday be known solely as the twit who inflicted ERAGON on us, and who provided The Bionic Woman with new BREASTS; that notwithstanding, this sales pitch for his latest book is the kind of gargantuan logrolling that usually means the opposite of what it says. For years people called Robert Benchley funny. Then they called S. J. Perelman funny. Then they called James Thurber funny. With rare exceptions (mostly Thurber's) they aren't funny anymore. And how many comic novelists live in posterity's ditch? The prolific Peter De Vries was once celebrated as a fun-NY comic novelist -- all of TWO of his books are in print, only one a comic novel. No, to our thinking, Carl Hiaasen is the twit who inflicted ERAGON on us, and provided The Bionic Woman with new BREASTS.

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