NO ONE YOU KNOW

Don''t read this. It''s boring. You want to have fun? Just look at any one of the side-splitting, eye-opening cartoons in this collection by Bruce Eric Kaplan.<BR>Yes, he''s the one whose drawings have the little initials BEK in the corner. You''ve probably seen them in <I>The New Yorker.</I> They''re in there almost every week, for God''s sake.<BR>His stomping ground is the usual territory of classic literature -- love, relationships and the search for a meaningful existence. Like the work of James Thurber, his warring husbands and wives, world-weary children and hostile therapists convey the timeless absurdity of modern life.<BR>Oh yeah, there''s also a foreword by Neil Simon.<BR>So, there''s not much else to say. Just that <I>No One You Know</I> is the laugh-out-loud, can''t-put-it-down, just-let-me-show-you-this-one book of the year. Now, stop reading this already.