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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Little Green Men: A Novel List Price: $13.99 Amazon.com's Price: $13.67 You Save: $0.32 ( 2%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780060955571 Edition: 1st Perennial ed ISBN: 0060955570 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: March 01, 2000 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: February 02, 2000 Studio: Harper Perennial Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: In Christopher Buckley's hilarious fourth novel, Washington, D.C., is naturally enough a place of sex, lies, and videotape. Unfortunately for Little Green Men's pundit protagonist, John Oliver Banion, it is also the HQ of Majestic Twelve, a very, very covert government project. Since "that golden Cold War summer of 1947," MJ-12 has had a single mission--to convince taxpayers that space invaders are constantly lurking below what's left of the ozone layer. "A country convinced that little green men were hovering over the rooftops was inclined to vote yea for big weapons and space programs," the author thoughtfully explains. But one disgruntled operative wants out. Nathan Scrubbs is fed up to the back teeth with the art of alien abduction--not to mention his cover as a Social Security flunky--so when his request for a transfer is quashed, he drunkenly decides to take it out on ubiquitous ultra-prig Banion, who happens to be on TV at the time. The ensuing high-tech kidnap, at Maryland's Burning Bush Country Club, is only one of the thousands of convulsively funny scenes in Little Green Men. Not that the novel isn't a skewed morality play of some sort: as Banion comes to believe in Tall Nordics and Short Ugly Grays, he is quickly removed from every A-list in town. But oddly enough, social and political disaster turns out to be as liberating as the finest alien probe. Let's just say that long before Banion and Scrubbs have a close encounter at the Millennium Man March on Washington, this Beltway barrel of monkeys attains a truly extraplanetary level of amusement. --Kerry Fried Product Description: The strange land of Washington, D.C., is teeming with aliens, politicians, and other bizarre life-forms. Beltway insider and stuffy talk show host John Oliver Banion finds his privileged life turned topsy-turvy when he is abducted by aliens from his exclusive country-club golf course. When he is abducted a second time, he believes he has found his true calling and, in the most pasionate crusade of his life, demands that Congress and the White House seriously investigate the existence of extraterrestrials and UFOs. Friends and family, meanwhile, urge Banion to seek therapy before his reputation is ruined for good. A comic tour de force from "one of the best and surest political humorists in America" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Little Green Men is an uproacious comedy of manners that proves once and for all that the truth is out there. Way out there. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - It is okay...Little Green Men is a text I was ready to love. Although it begins quite nicely, the book limps to its tepid conclusion leaving the reader feeling like so much more could have been done with this very intriguing premise. Mr. Buckley is a witty, and at times, funny writer, but this novel seems to be among his minor achievements. This frustrated me even more as its premise is one of his more promising. One of this text's major flaws is its plodding conclusion. The last two chapters of the book ... Read More Rating: - DisappointedI was disappointed. I enjoyed the movie "Thank You For Smoking" so much that I bought other books by Chrtstopher Buckley. "Little Green Men" was a disappointment. The story was predictable and not very interesting. See: Thank You for Smoking (Full Screen Edition) Thank You for Smoking: A Novel Rating:  - AmusingThere are plenty of stories about contact with aliens, including a plethora dealing with government conspiracies to conceal such contact. In Little Green Men, Christopher Buckley offers his own take on these stories and has delivered a fun novel. Little Green Men centers on John Banion, the most powerful man on television. He is an incisive and often nasty interviewer of political figures, and even the President accommodates him. Banion lives the good life until he is abducted by aliens ... Read More Rating:  - Was this alien BO?This is the first book I have read by Christopher Buckley and I am pretty happy with it. At first I wasn't sure how I would like it when it started with the talk show and the Washington political scene. I am definitely not savy when it comes to politics. I thought I would not understand the plot, the theme, the characters, etc. But that's what made Buckley such a great writer for me. He write so well that I could both understand and enjoy this political satire. Another aspect of this book ... Read More Rating: - Good God! Is Buckley the Greatest living writer?!Reading this book is literally stunning. If there were any justice, the hacks ought to abandon their work (or at least rewrite it through a few times) before they sling it out the door- looking at James Patterson and Dan Brown. The prose on every page is so carefully wrought it is amazing. He captures characters, organizations and Washington dynamics with such economy, with such perfect on-the-nose phrasing it, it really is amazing. Put your finger down on any page and you will find excellence. ... Read More 
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