Someone wicked this way comes - Rated 
I found a good illustration of Christopher Buckley's sense of humor while reading of one of the ocean crossings that he had taken with his father. Buckley the Elder routinely sailed an ocean every 5 years or so, and his son was often part of the crew. All the ship's members had tasks, and on this trip Christopher was in charge of bringing along projects for fun and diversion during the extended voyage. The one I remember was the model he brought for the group to construct, of course a ship, and for him it could be no other, The Titanic.
His is not low brow cheap shot humor, although you may be surprised by how inept some other Authors are when engaging him in written debate. He writes within this book on a variety of subjects guaranteed to make you laugh, and for those that take themselves, or a given subject too seriously, he will annoy you. Even if the latter group is the one you find yourself in, if only to yourself, you still cannot deny the wit and the intellect that is behind his thoughts.
So if The Pope appearing on Oprah selling his new book intrigues you, or perhaps Johnnie Cochran writing a letter of recommendation for the squeezed fruit who was his client piques your interest, this read is for you. If the two topics I mention do not suffice, there is always his written feud with Tom Clancy, satire on Star Trek, or perhaps the "How I went 9 G's in an F-16 and Only Threw Up Five Times", there is something here that will cause you great pain in your sides, as he is the cause of pain for his adversaries in their nether regions.
The stories I mentioned are a tiny fraction of what awaits the reader, for I have not touched upon the selling of Lenin's embalmed corpse.
Buckley the Younger is wonderful, or as the Author Tom Wolfe states "Fifty years ago the 3 funniest writers in the English language were named Shaw, Mencken and Muggeridge....today they're named Thompson, O'Rourke, and Christopher Buckley..."
If you have not tried this man's work, this is a great place to start.
Half hilarious, half serious, all very witty humor - Rated 
A collection of articles previously publised in a variety of top shelf magazines and newspapers (New Yorker, Washington Post, Vogue, Forbes FYI and the like). The first half of the book was mostly shorter pieces, and mostly hilarious The second half has some more serious pieces. All of it well written and an easy read. A good book to pick up and dip into.
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