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最近很常买二手书，例如这本P.J. O’Rourke的The CEO of the SOFA，只花了我两块钱。

虽然不是什么很正经的书，不过如果想让自己放松，这是不错的轻松小品，诙谐有趣。

在这里quote几段自己喜欢的段落给各位看看。

Women are successful in the business world because the business world was created by men. Men are babies. And women are… good with kids.

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One type of practice for winter driving doesn’t even require any physical activity. It’s strictly a matter of mental preparation. After all, driving on icy roads has a lot to do with how you think about them. Conceive of a metaphor for icy roads so you’ll know how to behave. Think of icy roads as politicians, for instance–crooked, slippery, and treacherous. If you hit a politician on the nost (equivalent to hitting the brake pedal on an icy road), you’ll go to jail. If you kick a politician in the butt (equivalent to putting your foot onto the accelerator), you’ll go to jail also. (Going jail is the equivalent of getting stuck in a snowbank.) Using the politician metaphor, wintertime is one long election day. Do what any sensible person does on election day and stay home.

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When we gather in a big public crowd, we want the political system to do something. If we wanted to do something ourselves, we’d be at work. If we wanted to learn something, we’d be at school. And if we were really interested in natural resource conervation, we’d conserve some resources by staying home. Politicians don’t fix scientific and economic problems. The last time political types were totally in charge of scientific research and economic planning they built the Chernobyl nuclear plant.

逛二手书店常常有很多惊喜，例如你会发现一些便宜的好书，或者一些已经绝版的经典书，甚至你会有艳遇。

读这本书时必须对当时美国的情况有大概的了解，还有对一些历史上重大的事件有些认识，不然这本书是不会达到你的笑点的。