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The cover story explains why Jerusalem could be the tripwire for World War III and profiles the delusional extremists who could ignite it: Jewish fanatics who want to retake the Temple Mount by force, Christian apocalypse-awaiters who want to see the temple rebuilt, and seething sheiks who will wage war before ceding authority over the Dome of the Rock.
The novel, the first by Chuck Palahniuk (the surname sounds like Eskimo for "palooka"--which somehow fits), walks a line between the straight and ironic--it isn't always clear if its glib sociological pronouncements are meant to be taken straight or as the ravings of a delusional mama's boy.
"If I'm wrong about Y2K, I'll just check into the Betty Ford Clinic for delusional economists, publicly state that I'm on industrial-strength Prozac, and then ask for forgiveness," Ed Yardeni joked this past September.
Eszterhas is "delusional in the sense that he believes that everything he touches is serious," says film critic and historian David Thomson.
As Saturday Night Live skits-turned-movies go, this one "makes The Blues Brothers look like Kurosawa" (Susan Wlosczyna, USA Today ). A three minute skit about two pathetically eager "delusional poseurs" (Tamara Ikenberg, the Baltimore Sun ) who'll do anything to get into the Roxbury nightclub, is now an hour and a half of the same, which wears thin by the end.
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