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Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition 105 reviews
The Onion
Little, Brown and Company, 2007
The GREATEST book ever written
+ A comic tour de force
+ Funny AND educational
Occasionally, a book comes along of such great importance that to not buy it--even if it means letting your kids go hungry for a couple nights--would be a crime. In fact, it should be a crime, and I advise you to write your local legislator. Such a book is Our Dumb World, the Atlas of the Planet ...
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics 257 reviews
Marisha Pessl
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
Have Yet to Finish, but its great!
+ Special Topics In Descriptive Sentences and Tangents
This book is very hard to read because there are so many references. It confuses me sometimes because I'm wondering...Who actually knows what the author is talking about? Although, that is what intrigues me. It leaves me guessing! It makes me want to strive to figure out exactly what the author is ...
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Naked Pictures of Famous People95 reviews
Jon Stewart
Harper Paperbacks, 1999
Rib-tickling
+ Jon Stewart
Funny " essays " by The Daily Show's Jon Stewart. I'm a far right wing kinda guy but even I have to admit Stewart is pretty clever and funny. This book was written almost 10 years ago; I'd love to see an updated volume two.
Recommended.
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Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression4 reviews
Sally Brampton
W. W. Norton, 2008
A must read, whether you are up or down
+ Sobering tale of what it's like to live with depression
+ Inspiring words for depressives
I have never been formally diagnosed with depression, yet like most people I guess, I have had spells of 'the blues' and feelings of melancholia at times. I have however a mother who has suffered from manic depression all her life and my second wife has been in the same boat for the past five ...
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Sexual Anorexia: Overcoming Sexual Self-Hatred 7 reviews
Ph.D., Patrick Carnes, Joseph Moriarity
Hazelden, 1997
Finally a deeper perspective
+ Absolultey on the mark
+ Great book I hate
+ Empathetic and brave
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I Am America (And So Can You!)429 reviews
Stephen Colbert
Grand Central Publishing, 2007
I was sad to see this book end!
+ So far so good....
+ Funny book
This book is incredibly hilarious, if you "get" Stephen Colbert's type of humor. If you like his show, you'll love this book. His tongue-in-cheek, extreme rightwing pundit character is just as politically incorrect as ever, and just so so funny. Complete with his opinion everywhere, including in ...
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To Die For63 reviews
Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon
Sony Pictures, 1998
Pitch perfect example of misguided reasoning's...
+ Interesting Movie
+ Underrated classic
+ "To Die For," a Non-Linear Social Satire of Dark Proportion
+ Portrait of a Female Psychopathic Narcissist
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Beam Me Up, Jesus: A Heathen's Guide to the Rapture15 reviews
Jim Gerard
Nation Books, 2007
A Rapturously Funny Send-up of the End Times
+ Witty Rapturemania
+ a witty, biting, and irreverent satire of the Christian "industry"
"Beam Me Up, Jesus" by Jim Gerard is a rapturously funny send-up of the End Times, a user's guide and self-help manual for the Left Behind leaners among us. Gerard surveys a post-Tribulation landscape where 666 is a product branding name and smoke belching horse locusts cramp everyone's dance card. ...
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales111 reviews
Oliver Sacks
Touchstone, 1998
What the maladaptive can teach us
+ At times dry, but very interesting overall
+ What the maladaptive can teach us
+ A Captivating, yet Redundant, Dive into the World of Disorders
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Naked414 reviews
David Sedaris
Back Bay Books, 1998
Absolutely fantastic
+ Painful to read, mostly plotless, but entertaining
+ FRANCINE!!!
This has become a very famous book and it deserves to be. It is certainly the type that has you lending it to all your friends and telling them about which pieces are your favorites. I love reading about his family and am a big fan of sister Amy so whenever there's a mention of her I get ...
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Anti-Christ: A Satirical End of Days 8 reviews
Matthew Moses
Booklocker.com, Inc., 2007
God, are you there? If so, are you laughing as hard as me?
+ I hope you like laughing...
+ Better than you'd think
+ Symbolic of America Today
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Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen #118 reviews
Stephen Colbert, John Layman, ...
Oni Press, 2007
Tek Jansen - a must read!
+ Too Funny
+ Funny!
+ Restores my Faith in Heroes
+ Positively Tekalicious!!
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I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell283 reviews
Tucker Max
Citadel Press, 2006
Brings back memories.
+ This book is a GREAT read
I thought the book was well written and bought back a lot of old memories :-)
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The Worst Person In the World: And 202 Strong Contenders140 reviews
Keith Olbermann
Wiley, 2007
declamatory oratory!!!
+ A favorite segment on Keith's Countdown on MSNBC
i'm late in reviewing this book so it's likely of not much use now. it's the sort of book that's hot then not. but that's marketing today. the book is really good still! keith olbermann has a distinct style which you like or hate. we like. i bought this book for a friend who has enjoyed it and has ...
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An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems442 reviews
Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe
Threshold Editions, 2007
If you really want the straight goods;there's no better place to get it than from Glen Beck!!
+ An enlightening, entertaining informative volume that is as much about life as it is about politics
I found this book exceptional in every respect.As a frequent listner to his show,I was surprised how his book is so well written and how he is able to cover such a wide variety of subjects and in a way that what he has to say does not become dated in a very short time. To be able to do this with ...
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction627 reviews
the writers of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, 2004
I couldn't stop laughing
+ Good stuff from Jon Stewart and The Daily Show!
+ Reminds me of why I used to like the Daily Show
+ You will not regret it.
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The Truman Show (Special Collector's Edition)463 reviews
Jim Carrey, Ed Harris
Paramount, 2005
ABSOLUTELY BEYOND OUTSTANDING
+ The Reality of the Truman Show
+ My kind of reality show...
+ Unusual theme
+ Truman Show
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The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS8 reviews
Elizabeth Pisani
W. W. Norton, 2008
books don't get better than this
+ Telling it like it is
+ Funny & Interesting
+ Great science meets great journalism
+ Genuinely enjoy getting the facts straight
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The Alphabet Of Manliness223 reviews
Maddox
Citadel Press, 2006
Loyal Fan
+ Couldn't stop laughing!
+ Hilarious....
+ Not that i needed it . . .
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Absurdistan: A Novel106 reviews
Gary Shteyngart
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
Slow start, finishes with a bang.
+ Another fascinating tale
+ Prophetic!
+ Not a book to leave around for your teenage sons to read
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