Bagley's Utah Survival Guide

I can usually count on Pat Bagley to deliver an entertaining and insightful look at Utah and Utahns, and this book indeed delivers with its hilarious drawings and text. Bagley pokes fun at us, but not in a mean-spirited way; a lot like the best efforts of Mel Brooks. I gave a couple of the books as gifts, and both were huge hits with the recipients. I guess if you are among the whiners who often write into the Tribune to complain about Bagley, this book probably isn't for you -everyone else will love it.

My son gave me this little book right after I moved to Utah. I gave it to my mother last month when she was getting ready to move here. If you have a sense of humor and live in or are about to visit Utah, this is for you. Pat Bagley is the political cartoonist for the Salt Lake Tribune, the less-Mormon of the two dailies in Salt Lake. He totally understands what makes Utah unique and points out and illustrates those things in a humorous way, that should not be TOO offensive, even to the natives, Mormon and otherwise. He clearly loves Utah, in spite of itself.