John's review
When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home
by Erma Bombeck
John's review
When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home by Erma Bombeck
John's review
rating:
recommended for: Good-natured humor readers, travel readers
Erma Bombeck had a way of complaining from every angle, against her husband, her children, her house, her country, her culture, her species, and herself – without ever getting annoying. Hers was a good-natured complaining if such a thing is possible, just critical enough and about trivial enough matters that one could easily relax reading or hearing her. Today “social criticism” is much more popular in humor. It’s always been around, but that intense negativity targeted at our most dearly held values usually fails to provide the escapist value of Erma Bombeck’s sense of humor. In this collection she went over her travels, from the petty reasons for starting them to everything that went wrong in executing them, with a wit and sympathy the world could certainly use more of these days. Her narration is very conversational, like a warm radio host on a very long feature. This is mostly grandma-safe humor, though it cracks me up just the same. Listeners who seek biting and edgy com...more
