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Title: Holidays in Heck
Author: P.J. O'Rourke
Narrator: Dan John Miller
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-01-11
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 21 votes
Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues
Publisher's Summary:
P. J. ORourke is one of his generations most celebrated political humorists, hailed as the funniest writer in America by both Time and The Wall Street Journal. Twenty-three years ago he published the classic travelogue Holidays in Hell, in which he trotted the globe as a trouble tourist, a chaos rubberneck, sight-seeing at wars, rebellions, riots, political crises, and other monuments of human folly. After the Iraq War - too old to keep being scared stiff and too stiff to keep sleeping on the ground - he retired from what foreign correspondents call being a s**thole specialist. But he couldnt give up traveling to ridiculous places, often with his wife and three young children in tow. Usually he was left wishing he were under artillery fire again.
ORourkes journeys take him to locales both near (and nearly bizarre) and far (and far from normal). Having made a joke that Ski magazine takes seriously, he winds up on a family ski vacation - to Ohio. The highest point of elevation is the six-foot ski instructor his wife thinks is cute. Convinced by an old friend and one too many drinks that a horse trek is just backpacking on someone elses back, he finds himself (barely) in the saddle, crossing the mountains to a part of Kyrgyzstan so remote that the Kyrgyzs have never seen it. He visits Kabul for the food and conversation (excellent lamb chops and a droll after dinner story about the mullah and the cow). He even takes his kids to his erstwhile home away from home, the bar at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Hong Kong.
Would the little ones like something to eat? asked the waiter. They serve food at the FCC? Who knew?
Holidays in Heck shows P. J. ORourke in top form - a little older, a little wiser, going to the bathroom a little more often, but just as darkly funny as he was in Holidays in Hell. Here is a hilarious and often moving portrait of life in the fast lane, as hes always lived it - only this time with the backseat driver that marriage entails and three small hostages to fortune strapped into the booster seats.
Critic Reviews:
A prolific humorist continues his outpouring of solid writing. . . some very fine travel writing, the best of which is wickedly droll O'Rourke at his very best. . . . Here's hoping there's another 15 books still to come. (Los Angeles Times)
[ORourke is] just as funny but also challenging himself when working outside of topicality. . . . a likable, brisk little brother to my favorite, 1988s Holidays in Hell. . . . This is my kind of ORourke: grouchy, quick and there to make you laugh. (San Francisco Chronicle)
In this cheeky follow-up to Holidays in Hell, former war correspondent ORourke trades battle zones for more appealing travel destinations, often with his family in tow. . . . The exotic . . . rub shoulders with the more mundane . . . and all of them share ORourkes razor wit. . . . ORourke loses none of his sly humor, finding many opportunities to lampoon American politics under his new guise as a traveling family man. (Publishers Weekly)
