Books by Steve Hely
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review 1: This is is really funny. Let's get that out of the way. Many giggles were had. But it's one joke for 300 pages. And a super cynical joke at that. And when it ends with a reductive, tedious lecture about "your generation" that is given a standing ovation, it becomes predictable, p...
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review 1: Generally fun travel book, although the fact that one of the guys decides to cheat right off the bat kinda annoyed me. It made me feel like they had falsely advertised the theme of the book. Still, they are both about my age (late 30's) and are occasionally either poignant or f...
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review 1: Well, with a title like this, how can a writer resist?This was such fun. The satire on modern-day, traditional publishing, the fight between literary and genre fiction, the need for writers to be mediagenic, it was all deftly skewered here. There were several LOL scenes and narra...
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review 1: Two friends who are comedy show scriptwriters undertake a gentlemanly challenge to race around the world without using airplanes. Steve's observations are deeper, and his appreciation for kitsch gives a zest to his account that Vali's lacks. Vali is more adept at describing his...
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review 1: At once point they describe the typical type of travelogue that I would read when one makes a decision not to trek across Mongolia on the back of a pony, so I'm glad I got a different take on travel from these two. There are enough hilarious lines/situations in there for a good b...