![]() ![]() The essay captures O’Rourke’s gift for technical explanation with wry twists. ![]() The simply dull were like a house party in an English murder mystery without the murder.”Īnother O’Rourke winner is his study of the now ubiquitous Airbus A380, just as the gigantic airliner was being unveiled. ![]() “The earnestly dull were deeply concerned with the fate of the Yangtze sturgeon. “There were three package tours of Europeans on board, mostly British of a certain age and divided between the earnestly dull and the simply dull,” he writes of an excursion to the Yangtze River. As with his talk-show appearances, he just seemed to be trying too hard.īut that soon gives way to some very fine travel writing, the best of which is wickedly droll - O’Rourke at his very best. Predictable and clownish, it made me want to hurl the thing into the fireplace, and not for the political orientation, for I am all over the map on this stuff myself. Oddly, his weakest piece - and it is gushingly annoying - is the opener, in which he and a bunch of Texans head off to the Galápagos Islands to ridicule the locals (the wildlife) and speculate on how some of the rare beasts may taste. ![]()
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