Praise & Reviews for How to Make Peace in the Middle East in Six Months or Less Without Leaving Your Apartment

"Gregory Levey may or may not be able to save the world. But I do know this: He writes a very entertaining and informative book. The section on Second Life alone is worth the price of admission."

"Gregory Levey doesn't solve the problems of the Middle East, but he does make them funny, which is almost as hard. A great read."

"At last some good news out of the Middle East: Decades of brutal, intractable conflict have finally given Gregory Levey material for an outrageously entertaining book."

"Greg Levey has made a comic masterpiece out of the world's most intractable conflict -- yet hidden among the sidesplitting laugh lines are insights about the Middle East that are no laughing matter. I've read dense scholarship on Israeli-Palestinian affairs that does not capture the irony or the humanity of the situation half as well as this hilarious book."

"Gregory Levey is hilarious—that’s not even a debatable point. But he’s something else too: on a subject where even a whisper of sanity seems brave, Gregory Levey is nothing short of heroic.."

"If Mohandas Ghandi and Woody Allen had a love child, and the child were Canadian, and a Jew, that child would be Greg Levey. In this eye-opening and riotously funny book, Levey boldly goes where many men have gone before as he sets out to solve the Middle East conflict. But this time, the fruitless quest for peace will leave you shaking your head in wonder at the human dramedy behind this longrunning geopolitical stand-off."

"Levey tackles an immense and serious subject with such charming wit and casual intelligence that one forgets its magnitude. His is an impossible mission—to make sense of the most tangled and fraught conflict of our time—but he ventures forth with a shrug and a chuckle and confronts his subject with compassion, self-deprecation, and pluck. This is a frolic of a book, but at its core is the serious idea that no matter how grand the stage policy affects (and is created by) actual people."

"A lively and humorous account of one man’s quest to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Levey’s thoughtfulness and wit make this book an absorbing read for Middle East neophytes and veterans alike."

"The conflict in the Mideast isn’t best handled by diplomats, ideologues, or think tank wonks, but by Greg Levey, the one man with the courage to call it like it is: an exhausting, frustrating, dinner party killing morass, ruled over by nutjobs of all stripes. HTMPITMEISMOLWLYA is the comedic Oslo Plan we've been waiting for, and Levey delivers his diagnosis of the situation with the on the ground wisdom of Thomas Friedman and the experimental wit of AJ Jacobs. Make laughs, not war."

"Laughs AND insight—a killer combo. Loved it so much I am looking forward to ‘How to Create Cold Fusion Without Getting Out of the Hot Tub."