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Larry Miller's "Spoiled Rotten America"

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Book publishers do all they can to sell a book. They frequently compare their author to other, similar authors. They chose to compare Miller to P.J. O’Rourke. Apples to pomegranates, we say. Miller is a good, maybe great writer, but the laughs come from entirely different methods than those employed by O’Rourke. It took us several chapters to shake off the O’Rourke comparison and just enjoy Miller for Miller. His chapter on “Jerry Allen” is especially poingant and it’ll take any comic back to his early days and to those comics he bonded with during those uncertain, exciting times. Miller’s standup was always about story-telling. He is eqally adept at telling stories and making points with the written word.