The endpapers are particularly amusing.
Langella is particularly amusing, eschewing the typical "oy"s but still fretting about parking.
The scene of "proper" ladies fainting from too-tight corsets is particularly amusing ("What was proper about that?").
The furrowed intensity and glowering eyes are particularly amusing when he's plunging into one of the more absurd patches of confused recollection.
The literature review has been particularly amusing; I now have a library of cybersex articles and books, dutifully underlined and highlighted, stacked on my desk.
Martin's dealings with his editor are particularly amusing, since he suspects she may not have his best interests at heart.
Imagine John Gielgud at his plummiest reading the dialogue from, say, "The Hangover". The furrowed intensity and glowering eyes are particularly amusing when he's plunging into one of the more absurd patches of confused recollection.
As one whose own parents married when I was a baby and divorced 10 years later; and having married a year after the birth of my own child, this point is particularly amusing.
Slim and agile, verbally deft, subtly expansive in gesture and facial expression -- he's particularly amusing at the moment things go wrong -- he's cheery as mischief-maker, puckishly frustrated when he has to clean up a mess.
It's particularly amusing for Bharara, who in a speech last year spoke of a "culture of corruption" on Wall Street, tell Worth about some financial institutions "where every week you're arresting someone", a few paragraphs after making excuses for why nobody was arrested.
