Why in the world, when you have been given a deal to write a book would you recycle old columns, and put together this pastiche? Makes you think twice about how smart he really is. ( )

Entertaining and definitely a fun read for fans of Wait Wait. I like most of his writing style, but he definitely has a pretentious flair. Be prepared for lots of capitalized phrases and the need for a dictionary, and enjoy. ( )

Peter Sagal hosts Wait Wait Don't Tell Me which I've never listened to. In this he writes of people engaged in vices such as lust, gluttony, gambling etc and sort of engages in them himself. I generally like books in which people do weird things like live as if the bible were literal or visit civil war reenactments. This take on that genre was meh at best. It was neither insightful enough nor funny enough. There are plenty of more enjoyable books of this sort. ( )

I find Peter Sagal fun, and enjoyed the book, although I thought it dragged as it went on. It's one that I finished but won't read a second time ( )

This was given to me for Christmas by my daughter & son-in-law because they knew I love "Wait Wait". I was bemused by the choice because so much of the material was such that we couldn't converse about the book over the dining room table. Some of the material (I found the gluttony chapter particularly hilarious, since my daughter works as a dessert plater at a similar restaurant)--about one paragraph per chapter brought a chuckle, but few guffaws. I think if I had bought it for myself, I probably would have been disappointed. ( )