![]() ![]() Having said that, I will read more books by C Buckley. My favorite genre is suspense/mystery,I am always disappointed when I figure out the rest of the story before I get to the end of the book,as I did with this one. The only negative I can say is that the story was predictable. His descriptions of scenes were vivd and added to the comedy of the story. The author gave information about his characters in detail making me feel as I knew them as real people. pluralism the Indonesian Supreme Courts decision on interfaith marriage Find. Christopher Buckley, 'the quintessential political novelist of his time' according to Fortune magazine, is the winner of the distinguished ninth annual Thurber Prize for American Humor. Review 2: This is the first book I have read by this author. Supreme Courtship is another classic Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule. I think this book worked better when it was first published in 2008, a few years after GWB's botched attempt to put Harriet Myers on the Court. In a hurry to buy her boyfriend Noah a Valentine's Day gift, Grace unknowingly knocks over a prominent figure while going after a taxi. ![]() Jack's insistence that Will be nicer to his fianc, Estefan, backfires when Estefan thinks Will is in love with him. And the parallel plot, in which a senator becomes a president on TV to improve his chances to get elected in real life, has enough verisimilitude to take seriously, but isn't particularly interesting either. Will & Grace S10, E14 - Supreme Courtship. more g enough to work as comic relief either. Judge Pepper Cartwright is too much of a caricature to take seriously, but not interestin. Another intriguing, zany premise, but it never really goes anywhere. Here, the premise is that people are so fed up with the polarizing, politicized Supreme Court, that the president appoints a no-nonsense female TV judge (think Judy) to boost his popularity. But that crazy law was eventually struck down, and we all slowly settled back into the status quo. In "Boomsday", the premise was to bail out social security and medicare by incentivizing old people to kill themselves. Review 1: Buckley writes comfortable, wacky but inoffensive political satires featuring an audacious premise that threatens to erupt our political system like a volcano, but eventually congeals into mild, day-old chili. ![]()
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