> > > I think the Ultracondensed version is something like: "The Earth gets blown up, and it is FUNNY."
> > >
> > > That's pretty much it.
> >
> > No, it isn't. I think I confused it with some other Ultracondensation. Before everyone jumps on me, I admit I was totally wrong and should be tied up and beaten with a smoked kipper. Mea culpa, mea culpa.
> >
> > Brunnen-"next time I'll check first"G
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> Well, what I'm kind of getting at, besides the fulfillment of real curiosity, is would it be a good one for an English critique paper? [i.e. short and simple. Well, Purgatorio worked, but I finished it the weekend before the paper was due. Ick.]

Yeah, it's ideal. Short, easy to read, an accepted classic of modern comic fiction, very amusing, but with enough stuff in it that you can probably make up a lot of crap about to critique. Unless you have one of those English teachers who feel that anything available as a cheap paperback and enjoyable to read isn't a valid subject. Maybe that's reading too much into it, I wouldn't know. All I know is, I saw it on the reading list for a postgraduate level Popular Fiction course at university, so go for it.