Holidays in Hell: Library Edition

from RandyStafford

My reactions on reading this book in 1991. Beyond the cynical, black, sometimes hyperbolic humor of this book, O'Rourke gives some telling insight into various hellholes on the planet. (Most are Third World ones, but there is also the strange land of the Euro-Weenies and Dark Places of America: H...

from sa54d

Hilarious. Although opinionated and boorish, I find his writing equally critical of U.S. social craziness as of the foreign cultures he satirizes. In particular his chapters on the Heritage USA Christian theme park and another on the Epcot Center ("Darkest America") stand out as social commentary...

from MiaCulpa

P.J. O'Rourke can be a very funny writer and this is on show in "Holidays in hell", a collection of his writing as a foreign affairs journalist. The most memorable entry is his trip to the Philippines to cover the election result that eventually led to the downfall of Ferdinand Marcos and the r...

from keylawk

The author wrote about his travels, and published as the "International Affairs Desk Chief" at Rolling Stone. This is a travel book. The author chose to visit and write about trouble-spots around the globe. He did sight-seeing in war-torn Lebanon, was pepper-gassed in Korea, checked out night-lif...

from trench_wench

This is a collection of articles written for various magazines about travelling to unusual places - war zones, evangelical Christian holiday camps, that sort of thing. Funny, but best read one article at a time with a break in between, otherwise the humour kinda grates.