Supreme Courtship
by Christopher Buckley
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Author: Christopher BuckleyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-09-07
ISBN: 0446697982
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Twelve
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Book Review: 3 1/2 stars - supreme light breezy fun
Summary: 3 Stars
It's pretty hard not to like a novel like Supreme Courtship. It's light, breezy fun. That said: it isn't as sharp or as insightful as I would have liked and as such it doesn't quite warrant a four or five star rating (I give it 3 ½ stars)
Supreme Courtship is entertaining satire that targets some pretty `low hanging fruit': notably America's TV-obsessed celebrity culture and dysfunctional government (no branch is spared). In Supreme Courtship, the state of Texas wants to lay landmines along their border with Mexico, a former US Senator becomes the star of a TV show called POTUS and then uses his popularity as a fictional president to run in the federal election (with his TV wife by his side), the sitting president is running for re-election on a platform of `more of the same' and encouraging voters not to elect him because he doesn't really want the job anymore, and a sassy judge from Courtroom Six (think - Judge Judy, only hotter) has been nominated to sit on the Supreme Court. The best laughs come from Senator Dexter Mitchell, Chair of the Senate Judicial Sub-Committee who manages to disqualify a number of highly qualified candidates (one of them because of a review he wrote in sixth grade that said To Kill a Mockingbird was `a little boring') before being stymied by the enormously popular Judge Pepper Cartwright. His best moments come when he leaves the senate to portray tough-talking President Mitchell "Send in the Nimitz" Lovestorm on a popular TV show.
Buckley doesn't have to work too hard to lampoon these institutions (they're pretty easy pickin's). While the novel is consistently amusing, the author paints with such broad strokes that it lacks any real subtlety. The best satire cuts close enough to reality to seem absurdly plausible, but in this case the plot gets so ridiculous, particularly in the second half, that it doesn't have that edge. Even so, Buckley has written a novel that will almost certainly put a grin on your face.
This is my first Buckley novel but I look forward to reading others.
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