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The Worst Date Ever: War Crimes, Hollywood Heart-throbs and Other Abominations (Paperback)

by Jane Bussmann (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Arcadia Editions; Export ed edition (3 Jul 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0230737129
  • ISBN-13: 978-0230737129
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.4 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 21,761 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Great summer reading...Black-listed by Ashton Kutcher, Jane goes to Africa to find Ugandan Warlord Joseph Cony. Funny, horrific and naughty things happen.' --Popbitch

'Very funny.'
--The london paper

'Her triumph is that she tells it like it is... Jane Bussman... is listening, helping, doing something.'
--The Scotsman


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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars gonzo journalism for our times, 5 Jul 2009
By scherazhade (london, uk) - See all my reviews
they lied when they said funny couldn't be deadly serious. this book proves it. a brilliantly goofy quest for love which ends up in africa exposing the dark heart of the west.

jane bussmann is at the forefront of a new kind of writing - gonzo journalism by women. she's hunter s thompson and bob woodward squeezed into killer heels.

Top read.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Not Girly, just really funny, 12 Jul 2009
I bought this book because it had a great review in one of the free rags you get on the Tube and it looked interesting. And my wife read something about it in Marie Clare and she yapped about that a bit, so I thought I'd read it and then give it to her afterwards.
Being a bit of a raver in my youth, I'd loved Jane's last book Once in a Lifetime: The Crazy Days of Acid House and Afterwards (Paradise productions) but didn't make the connection until I saw it here on Amazon. I was a bit worried this might be a bit girly with celebrity journalism and helping "victims" and stuff. I was well wrong though, it's got loads and loads of funny jokes and stories about famous people that are pretty shocking (and embarrassing for them!) and the things in Africa are clever not preachy. I read it quickly which wasn't a bad thing, I still felt I got value, I read it fast because it was good.

I hope Jane does more things, I did a bit of Googling and found out she had written for Brass Eye and South Park, some of the best comedy of the last century so this isn't just a one off flash of genius.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The heart of darkness, frosted with humour, 21 Jul 2009
By Not Pepys (London) - See all my reviews
I picked up this book because I've always liked Jane Bussmann's writing - she neglects to mention in her book that she's one of the few journalists who could turn out an interview with a celeb filled with the usual tripe and make it readable.

So I knew it would be interesting, but I didn't expect it to be superb, and I don't say that word lightly.

The sharp Gonzo-esque humour draws a savage line through the madness of Hollywood, before turning to the Apocalypse Now-on-steroids uber insanity of Joseph Kony's LRA and African politics.
There are probably better, more detailed books about the war crimes perpetrated in Uganda. There are certainly more worthy ones. But I imagine few draw you in and then smack you the way this does. Bussmann is so ordinary, it makes the horror of Kony's brutalised child army and the Ugandan government's complicity in the LRA's atrocities, more real. If Jane, a scatty journalist of fluff, can see the problems, then why the hell can't the experts? African politics, that's why.
Bussman's self-deprecating humour is what brought me to the book in the first place, and it's essential to leaven the mix - without it the human suffering is unrelenting. Not that she rubs the reader's nose it in, far from it - her writing is remarkably elegant. This is dark stuff, drawn brilliantly.

Read it. you won't regret it.
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