The Thin Red Line

Yikes.   How did I manage to let a whole week pass without doing a single blog post?   It’s certainly not that I didn’t read any noteworthy books this past week.   But somehow or other I let the whole week go by without posting so much as a book cover.    And everything about this first book is late.    I am late getting around to reading it,  the library branch where I work was a full year late getting around to offering this particular title and I had not previously read any of Christopher Buckley’s much-praised earlier works.

Boomsday is the story of Cassandra Devine,  the young Yale hopeful who learns that her father has invested her tuition money in a dot.com start-up and therefore must serve in the Army in order to earn her way to school,  is a comic delight.   As Cassandra’s brief stint in the service throws her into the arms of a lecherous Congressman who speeds Cassandra’s way into a power broker position at a hot K Street firm in Washington DC,  where Cassandra will go on to offer a ‘modest proposal’   that the Baby Boomer generation agree to "voluntarily discorporate" by age eighty in return for some eye-popping tax benefits.    Leading on a shadowy league of activists via her blog at cassandra.net  Cassandra and her Congress Critter actually get the darned thing passed,  though with so many typically Boomer perks thrown in (i.e.  tax exemptions for purchase of Sedgways) that the onerous burden Cassandra had hoped to lift from her own generation is as burdensome as ever.    Absolutely laugh-out-loud funny,  a Real Treat.  Not to be missed.  

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