Link Banana

I’ve been waiting for this book to get a good critique, and finally Garrison Keillor offers it:

It’s only right that the tide of inspirational books should yield to the occasional depressional one — for every humorist, a dishumorist, a man who runs his nails down the blackboard and makes everyone’s hair stand up, though we humorists would note that you have to work hard to get a laugh and that dishumor is tyrannical: you need only say out loud, “How can you people stand around here and enjoy yourselves while the world is falling apart?” and all conversation ends. The dishumorist brings a long face to the party and you are forced to ask, “What’s wrong?” And he whispers: “These are ominous times. I sense disaster. I wake up feeling paranoid. The sun was ghostly today. And now fear agitates the darkness.” O.K., pal. Thanks for sharing.