Boomsday and STFU
Boomsday written by Christopher Buckley. 318 pages. April 2007. $24.99. Twelve. The protagonist of this book starts out in life with the name Cassandra Cohane, but after getting screwed--in the figurative sense--by two Baby Boomer men, one being her father and the other a junior congressman from Massachusetts--Cassandra changes her last name to Devine. The respective screwings turned Cassandra against the Baby Boomer generation and therein lies the plot, such as it is, of this book. Christopher Buckley, best known for the book Thank You for Smoking , is an amazing satirist and his pen is quite sharp in Boomsday . It's his best book since Thank You for Smoking (TYS). Like TYS , this book involves Washington insiders be they K-street spin doctors, politicians, or the wealthy hangers-on of the political set. It's a great romp. I started reading Boomsday on Sunday and finished it this morning. It was a great accompaniment to the movie I saw Sunday night, Man of the Year , due to...