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|title=American Weather

|author=Charles McLeod

|genre=General Fiction

|rating=4

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=978-0099542223

|pages=304

|publisher=Vintage

|date=August 2012

|summary=An original and thought-provoking satire on the state of the States, this is a read you'll have to put some effort in, but if you do the returns are there.

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Jim Haskin is a very odd man, doing a very odd job, in a very odd country if this book is to be believed. An advertising guru in San Francisco, he owns a touchy feely company which boasts such wonders as a ‘Dream Pod’, a room for his team to relax in with sleeping bags, TVs and a cooler brimming with organic fruit tea. That’s for their down time in between saving the world, promoting one eco-friendly item after another and doing other worthy things. Except behind the scenes, Jim Haskin is not that man. While his team are organising poetry slams to help homeless prostitutes, he’s coming up with fight-back campaigns, showing that bleach makes a beach better, chemical spills aren't as bad as you first might think, and other quite inexplicable things.

[[Boomsday by Christopher Buckley]] is equally outrageous, but slightly less offensive. Maybe.

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