Thank You for Smoking
Nobody blows smoke like Nick Naylor. He’s a spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies–in other words, a flack for cigarette companies, paid to promote their product on talk and news shows. The problem? He’s so good at his job, so effortlessly unethical, that he’s become a target for both...
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Nobody blows smoke like Nick Naylor. He’s a spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies–in other words, a flack for cigarette companies, paid to promote their product on talk and news shows. The problem? He’s so good at his job, so effortlessly unethical, that he’s become a target for both anti-tobacco terrorists and for the FBI. In a country where half the people want to outlaw pleasure and the other want to sell you a disease, what will become of the original Puff Daddy?From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780679431749 (0679431748)
Publish date: May 17th 1994
Publisher: Random House Inc (T)
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
This book was an ok read, it took me quite a while to get into it as the writing style is very different to what i'm used to. I found the story to be quite jumbled and sometimes I just had no idea which of the characters were speaking, I had to sometimes read a page a couple of times in order for it...
Ok, I admit it, I saw the movie first and loved it and that's the only reason I picked up the book. The book was good. Christopher Buckley's going on the list. I laughed. I approved of increased intrigue in the Academy of Tobacco Studies and more vicious, sly, human skulduggery. I missed Nick N...
Good, not great. a light read that never made me laugh out loud, but has some funny moments.
85% as funny as Buckley thinks it is.
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