{"id":1423,"date":"2013-10-06T14:58:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T18:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2021-05-26T14:42:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T18:42:03","slug":"review-insane-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"Review: Insane City"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Insane<\/a>
\nInsane City<\/a> by Dave Barry<\/a>
\nMy rating: 2 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n

I read this one cover to cover on a plane from Detroit to San Francisco. I’ve got mixed feelings about it.<\/p>\n

Dave Barry’s humor was stellar, as always. I chuckled and laughed out loud quite a bit as I wondered how thin a person has to be to be comfortable in economy seating.<\/p>\n

The discovery that the main character really did give a damn, and the contrast between causes and real people were both well woven into the story. They weren’t subtle, but they didn’t club me over the head, either.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, there’s always a but.<\/p>\n

The amount of terrible coincidences that kept happening to the main character strained credulity, and then tore through it like a crazed orangutan. It went beyond the character reacting with “oh, you have GOT to be kidding me.” I found myself uttering that very phrase every time I got thrown out of the story.<\/p>\n

Even for Miami, the insanity was just too focused on one person.<\/p>\n

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