Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
by David Rakoff
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages222 pages
ISBN
9780767916035
Published
2005
Description
A bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess from an award-winning humorist. Whether David Rakoff's contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic concorde with the good-times-and-chicken-w...A bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess from an award-winning humorist. Whether David Rakoff's contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic concorde with the good-times-and-chicken-wings populism of hooters air; working as a cabana boy at a south beach hotel; or traveling to a private island off the coast of belize to watch a soft-core video shoot where he is provided with his very own personal manservant rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly skewered.
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