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The Worst Date Ever: War Crimes, Hollywood Heart-Throbs And Other Abominations (2009)

by Jane Bussmann(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0330457659 (ISBN13: 9780330457651)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Pan Books (UK)

review 1: As much as I wanted to, I just did not warm to this book. Bussmann did an amazing job exposing the secret war of Uganda and documenting some of the countless atrocities carried out there with courage and wit but that's just the problem. I didn't find her funny at all. There wasn't one 'laugh out loud' moment for me and by the end of the book I was happy to say goodbye. Humour is subjective of course and that's not to say that someone else won't love this book.
review 2: I bought this book for next to nothing at a second hand shop so that I could leave it behind while I was travelling but, it was actually quite hard for me to let it go. I enjoyed it so much. I picked it up because it looked like a good humourous and easy read. And it is just that...even thoug... moreh it's about the war in Uganda. I never would have thought that someone could write an entertaining book about something so serious, but Jane Bussmann has done it.She doesn't poke fun at the war or the insanity of so much of what is happening there, no one could pull that off, what she makes fun of is herself and her own ignorance and the ludicrisnous of so many other things. She shows us how caught up our society is in things that are completely pointless and useless. While chasing down a totally hot peacemaker across the globe, she transforms from a celebrity gossip writer in L.A into a real life war journalist in Africa. What's really crazy is that this is all based on her real life, it's not fiction!The best scene has to be when she finally gets her "date" with the hot peacemaker and goes on the hunt for lip plumping serum in Gulu, Uganda. I was actually laughing out loud while reading it.Love this book! less

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