Two Thumbs Up
By Pru in Virginia
"Truth in Advertising" starts out as a sleek, entertaining, frothy sip of dazzle. I could tell immediately that the guy could write a ton, but (as with so many books) I thought "Clever... I think I could do that." (I never have, mind you. The terror of the empty page defeats me.)
But the book is slippery. I slid down a gentle slope of "Hey, this is pretty good" until I got to "Whoa - that was skillfully done" and then right over the cliff onto a big patch of "Okay - he's way beyond my league."
By the end of the book I had laughed loud enough to wake up my sleeping husband... and had wiped away the tears I hadn't meant to cry over broken, funny Finbar. Not to mention lost a night of sleep.
I give it a big Double Plus Good, and wish he'd spit out a few dozen more books immediately, please. Because really, don't you think that sleep is overrated?