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Boomsday by Christopher Buckley

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Feb 16, 12

bookshelves: fiction, humor
Read from February 08 to 15, 2012

A hilarious treatment of a serious subject, a runaway deficit and the imminent demise of the Social Security trust fund. Cass Devine is a politically aware 29 year-old blogger and PR consultant who initiates a campaign to get Congress to address the market forces that are driving the country to the brink of an economic meltdown and to get Boomers to shoulder responsibility for the mess the country is in. Buckley uses humor to drive his points home and the reader found himself chuckling throughout. Some of the scenarios presented are so eerily prescient as to wonder what crystal ball the author was gazing through, but the ending basically left the reader flat. After all of that buildup, the ending just tied things up a bit too neatly for this reader's satisfaction and without resolving the central dilemma. Still, a very entertaining book.

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