His witty writing style and imagination keeps things moving along - Bill Clinton in Hell (stuck in an anonymous hotel room constantly waiting for the arrival of some woman who he can't remember), J. Edgar Hoover (in Hell because the Devil needs SOMEONE to keep detailed track of everyone in hell), etc.

No outlandish or medeaval tortures here, everything here is the torture of the mundane.

It all leads to an ending that was incredibly predictable.

Clearly not the book he won a Pulitzer Prize for, but entertaining.