This book made me laugh my ass off. Tells of his adventures being plucked from a cushy entertainment reporters round in LA to being embedded with the US Army during the invasion of Iraq. He lasts about seven days before complete terror makes him grab the next flight out of there. Truly hilarious bits on buying his Iraq gear from a camping store, to his utter confusion about what the hell he's doing in Iraq and hatred for the superior journalist from a rival paper he's up against. I've lent this to about 4 other journos, and all loved the accurate depiction of journalism as basically chaos where you are put a situation you dont' understand, given no help and expected to be an instant expert. His stories from his career are also really funny and ring true - from being abused by his editor as a lowly new journalist, to looking out his window on Sept 11 and thikning 'nah, there's no story here' and going back to sleep. Really funny, highly recommended.