Review: Who Killed the Dalai Lama? — Commentary Magazine. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
[Buckley] may be the best comic novelist now writing in America, perhaps the best since Peter De Vries. His most celebrated novel is probably Thank You for Smoking (1994), a satire on the tobacco lobby and anti-tobacco zealots, which was filmed by Jason Reitman nine years later. I prefer Little Green Men (1999), his tale of a TV talk-show host who is abducted by aliens from a golf course.
This is a much kinder review than I would likely have written. I think Christopher Buckley is a sell-out. And he is definitely no Peter De Vries.
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