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One for the Road: Into Hot Air
Funny man Chris Elliott has taken his comedy to new heights in his third book, a comic spoof on a classic travel adventure that was released last month. Into Hot Air: Mounting Mount Everest is a novel that pokes fun at, well, just about everything, including the author himself. Elliott's narrator, also named Elliott, wonders if it really was Sir Edmund Hillary who was the first to scale Everest. The discovery of a diary written by a crazy great uncle begins the questioning, and readers are dragged along on a mysterious and laugh-out-loud journey that includes a cast of all-star celebrities.Elliott depicts epic adventure at its funniest, and " ...also takes aim at disaster movies, celebrity activism, and reality TV shows like Survivor and The Amazing Race." As Chris explains in this recent Gothamist interview, CNN and the titles of other folks books did inspire some aspects of his own story: "It's more or less using Everest and the action-adventure genre as a backdrop for my goofiness."
Filed under: Climbing, Stories, Books, One for the Road
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AlfaMike Dec 16th 2007 8:01AM
Isn't that the guy who used to sell potato chips in Super Bowl commercials? What happened, did he finally go certifiably nuts?