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The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Raising Children for Fun and Profit Review

I was challenged to read any of the Sweet Potato Queens' books by a friend on another web site for those of us who are addicted to reading. I, of course, came to Amazon to hunt up these books and check out for myself what the big attraction was. I found most of the books, and in my own style ordered one of each of the books. I am still in the process of reading them, but have thumbed through and read clips of each one. These ladies are so funny. The books are irreverent...and in some cases a little too spicy for some...but for the most part, Jill writes the thoughts that I'm sure all of us have had at one time or another. There is no doubt in my mind that she absolutely adores her daughter, but some of the stories she writes are so funny you will cry when you are reading them. I think the greatest part of her books is the fact that we can picture ourselves, or someone near and dear to us, in every situation she writes about.

If you love to laugh...and especially if you started out South of the Mason-Dixon Line...you will absolutely love this book. You will laugh so hard your sides will ache. My son came in while I was laughing hysterically and asked what was wrong with me. Told me how strange I was to be sitting alone and laughing so hard. Well, I take that as a compliment. I always wanted to be unique...as are all the Sweet Potato Queens.

The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Raising Children for Fun and Profit Overview

When does 1 + 1 = 3 (or more)? When you�ve got a baby on the way.

Part of that new math, says #1 New York Times bestselling author Jill Conner Browne - whom USA Today calls �just plain funny� - includes the addition of an outsize sense of humor to balance the equation of your growing family.

The Sweet Potato Queens� Guide to Raising Children for Fun and Profit is a hilarious (though not scientifically tested) wink at the time-honored mysteries of parenting, for anybody who has ever had a kid or has ever known one, knows that the experience is neither fun nor profitable - so, you might as well laugh!

As each generation begins its hopeful, happy, and, yes, sometimes harrowing journey together as Parent and Child, together they spawn a new body of �knowledge,� the nuances of which will elude the Experts every time. Here are stories of the things we do for Mother Love - or, the most incredibly full-time volunteer job ever - and tips guaranteed not to be found in any other parenting guide.

- How to Talk to a Pregnant Woman
- How the Diamonds on Delivery Policy Can Speed Up the Labor Nature Intended
- Why a Good Mother Is Always Adept at Subterfuge
- The List of Things You Wouldn�t Think You Would Have to Tell Kids Not to Do
- Why Mothers of Sons Can Never Retire
and
- Why, for Parents, It�s Just a Short Drive to the Poorhouse

The Sweet Potato Queens� Guide to Raising Children for Fun and Profit will have everyone who�s ever been a parent - or ever thought of becoming one - or been a child - or is still one - giggling and grinning (no small feat) through those child-bearing years�and beyond.

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Customer Reviews

every mother needs this! - Jacqueline C. Brown - seattle wa
couldn't put it down! laughed my a&& off! what a hoot! bought 3 copies so i could share with my friends!





The Queen - Thomas E. Doggett -
Bought it for my friend and she read it for a book review club and they loved it.

Tom





disappointing... - kimmeroo22 -
I loved the other SPQ books, and this one started off laugh-out-loud great... but then it lost momentum. I felt like half the book was an advertisement for her other books, and i got tired of her use of the word "herveryownself." Once or twice would have been fine, but it got tiresome. If you can borrow a copy, it might be worth the read, but don't waste your money buying the book.


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What Would Macgyver Do?: True Stories of Improvised Genius in Everyday Life Review

MACGYVER IS ONLY AN NON FICTION STORY. DO YOU BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ?? ARE YOU FROM ANOTHER PLANET?? COME ON GIVE RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON A CHANCE. HE'S A GREAT ACTOR. HE PLAYED HIS PART WELL. ARE YOU GOING TO PUT STARGATE SG-1 DOWN TOO...NOT.. NOT IN MY LIFETIME!!! ALL THE WAY R.D.A... LOVE YA MACGYVER AND O'NEILL..FOREVER..CAROL D.

What Would Macgyver Do?: True Stories of Improvised Genius in Everyday Life Overview

For anyone who's ever wished they could channel the 1980s action-adventure icon comes this clever collection of forty-five true stories, commemorating the use of improvised genius to solve everyday problems. Inspired by television's Angus MacGyver (played by Richard Dean Anderson), a secret agent who relied on his brains and scientific prowness-not to mention duct tape and a Swiss Army knife-to save the day, the "MacGyverisms" recounted range from the concrete (using Chex Mix to provide taction in an icy parking lot) to the intangible (saving a relationship with the perfect turn of phrase). Edgy, entertaining, and smirk-to-yourself funny, these masterfully told stories reveal that, with a little luck and a lot of ingenuity, you can "MacGyver" yourself out of virtually any predicament..

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Customer Reviews

No MacGuyverisms to be found here! - Adam C Duclos -
I was extremely disappointed in this book. For an author who purports to be a MacGuyver fan of the highest caliber, I find he misses the point in just about every story. Judging from the books taglines, I might expect nifty stories about how people had to fix things in interesting ways. By and large, that was not the case. Also, he had a really annoying writing style, where he would introduce all of the upcoming stories by giving away the plot and ending of each one. Way to ruin the only thing your book had going for it, moron! I get that if you didn't do that, none of the book would actually be written by you, but then I guess you shouldn't have gleaned a bunch of stupid stories from wannabe writers instead of actual MacGuyverism's, then asked them to write them themselves

Spoilers.

There were two stories that I liked. A dude fixed his car in the middle of nowhere using a knitting needle. As I said earlier, I'm not really giving anything away here, since the author spells this out for you before you hear the story. Another guy fixes a dudes tire in a novel way. Okay then!

The rest were awful. A guy's family needs to lift a deck up a few feet so they can reattach it to the house. So they use four car jacks. Imagine that, what genious to use jacks to lift something heavy. Damn it all, they even had one for each corner! How is that a MacGuyverism? That was the exact thing thing they needed, in the exact number they needed!

A guy's apartment is hot, so he tries to make an air conditioner from scratch. All he has is a fan and a bucket. How does he MacGuyver this? He goes to Home Depot and buys all the rest of the stuff he needs. Fail!

Some girl is friends with another girl who is severely asthmatic. She witnesses a severe asthma attack, and takes the girl to to the hospital. Good so far, I guess. Then they go on vacation and the girl has a lesser but still quite bad attack. For some stupid reason she brought her inhaler, but forgot some kind of spacer for it, rendering it useless. (As an aside, why the hell would this thing be in two pieces!) So what do they do? They go out and try to buy the spacer from three different places and fail, and all the while the girl refuses to go to the hospital. They go back to the vacation house, cut the end off of a water bottle and make their own spacer, which works. Here's the thing... They spent hours driving around fruitlessly looking for this damned spacer... Idiot, you are in a car, driving your ailing friend around! Just go to the hospital anyway! Its better than dying, and they probably have a spacer for you! MacGuyver would totally just go to the hospital if he needed to, was near one, and had a car. Ha!

Then the author runs out of stories in any way relating to fixing things, then goes into his 'alcohol' section, his 'love' section, etcetera.

A guy has a band, and they run out of stuff to make martinis. They really need their martinis man! So they steal a bunch of stuff out of a hotel and make some. Stealing?! The story actually has two more parts, each lamer than the last, and it didn't remind me of MacGuyver at all... just the 'Girl Drink Drunk' segment from 'Kids in the Hall'. That was really a good show!

A loose 16 year old girl has sex in a closet with some guy she just met. He rips off her thong, tearing it. So she ties it together agaiin. Really? (Oh, and by way, she couldn't figure that out on the first try... the first time she tried to use a binder clip!)

Another girl dates some guy, then stops dating him. Later, he gets married, so she decides she loves him. She then decides she needs to get over him, so she solicits help from her creative writing group. They fail to help her, and she pines after the guy for five years, when she snapped out of it. Except she didn't even then, because she wrote this story and submitted it to this lame book.

There was a lot more, but I'm tired of writing about this abysmal book. Don't be fooled! If you must read this, I advise you not to encourage this kind of book in a monetary way! Borrow it from your local library...

PS: I just remembered the one about the guy who drank his own pee for no good reason. The way the guy wrote the story, it sounded like he was just looking for an excuse to do so. He knew it wouldn't help his thirst, he wasn't that far from water and he did it anyway. Whatever! This book is terrible.





Beyond Disappointing - M. Wu - New York
This book is plain awful! Near all of the solutions in the book are far from true MacGyverism. The author claims he's unskilled with improvisation, he isn't lying, if he's impressed with the stories people submitted, he can't be a handy guy with quick wits. The only thing good with the book is the title, I was mislead by it and purchased the book.










unique book - Patricia Verdon - pa
This is a very unique book, book was shipped one day after order - amazing. Highly recommend vendor


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Fawlty Towers - Volume 1: Basil the Rat Review

Fawlty Towers - Volume 1: Basil the Rat Overview

Fawlty Towers has become a landmark in comedy history, with its twelve episodes being shown again and again on television. It is impossible to tire of the antics of Basil, Sybil, Polly and the hapless Manuel. Now, all their timeless humor is available on audio. This audiobook includes extracts from an interview with John Cleese, and stars John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs and Connie Booth, with linking narration by Andrew Sachs.

The episodes include:

* Communication Problems

* The Hotel Inspectors

* Basil The Rat

* The Builders

An original cast member of Monty Python's Flying Circus, JOHN CLESE has starred in many hit films and television comedies. His role as Basil Fawlty has only added to his legendary comedic status. PRUNELA SCALES as Sybil Fawlty, not only ensured the smooth operation of Fawlty Towers, she was charged with keeping her prickly husband Basil in check. Ms. Scales is held in high regard for her appearances on film, and on stage, as well.

Presented fully dramatized on 2 CDs.

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Why Do Men Have Nipples? CD: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask A Doctor After Your Third Martini Review

I work with a group of individuals who share a superb sense of humor. Gave this book for our white elephant exchange at the holidays. There were quite a few laughs on the title and premise, but later my co-worker admitted how much fun the book was - my sediments exactly! Great coffee table (and better yet bathroom) book.

Why Do Men Have Nipples? CD: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask A Doctor After Your Third Martini Overview

Is There a Doctor in the House?

Finally, answers to all those strange questions you'd like to ask your own doctor but haven't had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. If you've ever wanted to ask a doctor . . .

• How do people in wheelchairs have sex?
• Why do I get a killer headache when I suck down my milkshake too fast?
• Can I lose my contact lens inside my head forever?
• Why does asparagus make my pee smell?
• Why do old people grow hair on their ears?
• Is the old adage "beer before liquor, never sicker, liquor before beer. . .," really true?

. . .then Why Do Men Have Nipples? is the book for you.

Compiled by Billy Goldberg, an emergency medicine physician, and Mark Leyner, bestselling author and well-known satirist, Why Do Men Have Nipples? offers real factual and really funny answers to some of the big questions about the oddities of our bodies.

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Customer Reviews

Disgustingly frank - Wesley Clark - Springfield, Virginia
Have you ever bumped into a person who uses vulgar language freely and speaks in an offensive and overly casual way? That's the tone of this book, combined with unfunny, self-serving attempts at humor. While some of the medical trivia was interesting, completing the book left me hoping that I never have to endure a meeting with the authors.










Entertaining - Deborah Merritt - Phoenix, AZ
Entertaining book with answers to some odd medical questions. But they never really answer the title question...





Answers a lot of weird medical questions - An Historian - Houston
Fairly interesting, sometimes funny but informative. Scope is narrow, the authors even admit this. This book discusses some of the most unique questions about the body as well as urban legends that have accumulated over the years. This topic is not as extensive and some people like to think.


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Thank You, Jeeves (Library Edition) Review

P.G. Wodehouse's novels reflect a bygone era, which may cause his novels to seem somewhat dated in terms of modern comparisons. Yet his main character's adventures and misadventures are as funny and fascinating as ever, transcending time with comic genius. In "Thank You, Jeeves", Bertie Wooster finds out what happens when he believes he does not need his irreplaceable valet Jeeves.

The separation of lord and servant begins with Bertie's refusal to give up the banjolele and Jeeves refuses to remain with him. After some trouble with others in his apartment building, Bertie Wooster repairs to Chuffnell Regis, a town run by an old school friend, so that he can play his instrument to his heart's delight in a cottage by the harbor. But matters are complicated when he goes to lunch with his old pal, and finds a former fiance in attendance, as well as her less-than-happy-to-see-Bertie-Wooster father and the man who was responsible for ruining their engagement. Bertie quickly sees that his friend and former fiance are in love, and does everything he can to help them become engaged, but only manages to mess everything up. It's at a time like this that he could really use Jeeves, who just happens to have been employed by said friend, to set everyone to rights again.

"Thank You, Jeeves" is a fast-paced, chuckle out loud read that is difficult to put down. For those familiar with other Wodehouse works, neither Bertie's scrapes and difficulties will come as a surprise, nor the manner in which Jeeves solves everything. The plot is extremely thin, and this novel seems much more dated than others in the series, but it is still classic Wodehouse and entirely enjoyable.

Thank You, Jeeves (Library Edition) Overview

In Thank You, Jeeves, Bertie Wooster retires to a cottage in the country without the assistance of his right-hand man, Jeeves. But after a period of lively adventure, during which the cottage is destroyed by fire, Bertie returns to London, accompanied once more by the invaluable Jeeves.

Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves are perhaps the most beloved characters in all of English literature--certainly the most humorous. P. G. Wodehouse's classic novels reflect the glories and absurdities of a vanished era.

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Customer Reviews

Thank You PG for Jeeves! - Marie Martin -
I just loved Thank You, Jeeves - such a character - I think he's one of the best characters PG made!!! I think in our hearts we all wish we had a friend like Jeeves....so he's the best! But then again I am such a sucker for all of Wodehouse and the wacky people he created, and will never stop reading his stories, (or watching some of the Jeeves and Wooster on DVD), and you are going to enjoy Jeeves too, and you are going to laugh. But that's not all, you get great word play, you get comedy, you get farce, but you also get human emotions and last but not least, you get a look back in time - not really that far back only 100 years or so, give or take, but at a time that we can remember but without cell phones, where newspapers came out two or 3 times a day, where telegrams were sent like we email and where you could still get away with a clever impersonation! Enjoy! And if you are looking for some more Wodehouse fare, these are a few rare but VERY funny books that you will enjoy every last page of......

The Head Of Kay's: A British Humor Classic
The Gold Bat: A British Humor Classic
The Gem Collector: A British Humor Classic
The Coming Of Bill: A British Humor Classic
The Clicking Of Cuthbert: A British Humor Classic

Enjoy each and every Wodehouse you can find! :)










A Timely Clarification - Mr. Orlando R. Barone - Doylestown, PA United States
This series of reviews has addressed the issue of the use of the N-word as well as the wearing of blackface in this 1936 Wodehouse classic. To be clear, the N-word certainly had negative connotations, even in the England of the 1930's. The upper classes, of course, saw nothing offensive in using demeaning terminology to describe inferior peoples, and for Wodehouse and his peers, Blacks were about as inferior as people got. In an unrelated short story (not in this volume) Wodehouse writes of an adventurous Englishwoman who would not marry a man she found enticing because he was "black as the ace of spades." It was a laugh line whose humor depended on your acceptance that such an interracial union was absolutely beyond serious consideration.

You can view this as offensive or just the way folks like Wodehouse saw things in 1936. But please don't claim that it is not horrifically disparaging to people of African ancestry.





Learn your history, please - Thomas D. Fuller - Springfield, VA United States
This is one of the funniest of the uniformly funny Jeeves and Wooster books. The scene with Chuffy, Pauline, and Bertie in the bedroom is worth the entire price of the book.

Some reviewers have objected to the use of the word "nigger" in the book. This is a British book written in 1936. The word had absolutely no negative connotations in that context at the time (the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, models of decorum, use the word more than once), and to complain of it is sheer ignorance. Here, as always, if you don't know what you're talking about, it's better not to talk.

Wodehouse fans -- if you haven't read it, read it now.


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George Carlin Reads to You: New Expaned Edition - Brain Droppings, Napalm & Silly Putty, and More Napalm & Silly Putty Review

This collection of unabridged readings of his Napalm & Silly Putty, and his More Napalm & Silly Putty and his BRAIN DROPPINGS originally found blessed release in 2004 as George Carlin Reads to You, but late last year, just a few months ago, precisely upon the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, found happy re-release in this expanded edition, augmented by an interview with Carlin from Terry Gross's Fresh Air.

I wish of course that Gross had told Carlin not to worry about being on the air, Carlin whose recordings had gone all of the way to the Supreme Court after an obscure FM radio station put out his Seven Words You Can't Say On Television on the air. So George with Terry pulled his punches and self edited heavily and consciously and explicitly rather than exploring fully issues Terry raised. She would have done better to let him roll, and then save the parts not ready for broadcast with us here.

Be that as it may, the readings of his three books are great. The structure seems to follow some philology, some reflections, some jokes, some stories, followed by a rapid-fire climax of one-liners. Each disc ends with a little announcement from Carlin specific to the recording, which ends with things like " . . .and always remember:" followed by dead air, waking you up wondering, "hey, what happened to my CD player! George?!!"

We find Mr. Carlin much in the spirit of the opening sections of Cyrano de Bergerac urging precise and creative language, very much in the heritage of The Misanthrope, and precisely Timon of Athens (Oxford World's Classics), raging for sanity among insane society, amongst a sleeping race of sheep.

But don't get me started. Get this recording instead, and enjoy.

I confess I use these audiobooks as bedtime reading, to read me to sleep. I love for this to listen to James Joyce: The Dead And Other Stories (Great Authors) as read by the gentle Mr. Setlock for Commuter's Library, or None of Maigret's Business (Simenon) on Audiobooks. Each morning I awaken to the fountainhead, the Donal Donnelly recording of the immortal and infinite world of Ulysses, and quite frequently this accompanies me to sleep as well. And so I put on George.

I feel it is my duty to inform the potential purchaser that a certain series of blood-curdling and prolonged shrieks at one point in this recording discourages such abuse of these disks like a cat encountering falling water. Certainly caught my comfortably dozing attention.

I found hearing Mr. Carlin read, privately, surpasses reading him to myself, although this also is great. I found his reading privately, intimately, like this to lack the edge of his high energy public performances such as George Carlin - Jammin' in New York, as if confronted by an unmoving mike he cannot gauge his effects and thus just reads, but this is George, and this is good, too.

WIth Terry we discover his early work on radio, and hear that distinctive radio voice. Sometimes we hear traces of others such as that once ubiquitous comic voice from SNL and the Simpsons silenced tragically by his domestic partner but here evoked tantalizingly. We hear several other personae from the Carlin stable, including Jesus with a Mafioso voice in a very interesting interchange. In fact there are several reflections on the life of Jesus, and on how institutionalized religion kills, which require listening. Terry Gross, of course, refers constantly to Carlin's When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (6-CD BOX SET).

Truly worth a listening, but avoid the shrieks while sleeping. These six CD's serve as strong language restorative from a guy with a much stronger mastery of language than he ought to have, a product perhaps of Parochial schooling, the fruit of what he calls "white Harlem" and growing up on the edge of Harlem, on the edge of an Irish Catholic enclave, near Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics, and alongside all of the huge churches, synagogues and universities nearby. A potent mix for the transcendence which is his work.

Hear him, at least once. A great bargain here.

George Carlin Reads to You: New Expaned Edition - Brain Droppings, Napalm & Silly Putty, and More Napalm & Silly Putty Overview

Great comedy at a great value! This gift set gathers three timeless Carlin recordings including two Grammy� winners, plus an interview from public radio�s Fresh Air.

d three must be funniest, right? That�s our thinking behind this collection. This laugh-out-loud program includes:

Brain Droppings � 2001 Grammy� winner
Acerbic observations, manic musings, in-your-face questions, witty word play, and more �droppings� from Carlin�s singular brain. �I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.� �Why are there no recreational drugs taken in suppository form?�

Napalm & Silly Putty � 2002 Grammy� winner
Carlin invents Past-Tense TV (�Got Smart,� �Father Knew Best,� �It Was Left to Beaver�), crusades for the Center for Research into the Heebie Jeebies, and suggests that �if the shoe fits, get another just like it.�

More Napalm & Silly Putty
Everything that wouldn�t fit on the first Napalm recording�like �A Day in the Life of Henry VIII,� �Sports Should Be Fixed,� and candid takes on life�s little moments (�I�m beyond the nice day�), all delivered with wicked glee.

Plus a bonus interview from Fresh Air.

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Customer Reviews

Now in a new expanded edition featuring an interview from "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross - Midwest Book Review - Oregon, WI USA
Now in a new expanded edition featuring an interview from "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, George Carlin Reads to You is an audiobook selection of comedian George Carlin's hilarious read-aloud musings, jokes, riffs, and (sometimes twisted) narratives from two funny books, including three complete recordings together for the first time: Grammy winners "Brain Droppings", "Napalm & Silly Putty," and "More Napalm & Silly Putty". A real treat for anyone who needs a dose of laughter during car trips, air travel, or anyplace one can go with a portable CD player, highly recommended. 8 hours, 7 CDs.












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Driving on the Wrong Side of the Road Review

Diana Estill has a gift for making us laugh at the mundane - and ourselves. I highly recommend this new CD, based on the book of the same name.

Driving on the Wrong Side of the Road Overview

Texas humorist Diana Estill shares her outrageous views on everything from foreign rental cars to designer dogs and toilet repairs. Listen to Diana explain, in her native Texas dialect, why men grill when they need love, what really happens to lost luggage, and how to use mouthwash to green a lawn. From home and travel misadventures to self check-out machines, silly diets, and snoring spouses, Diana offers some far-fetched solutions and hilarious life observations.

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Customer Reviews

JUST OK - Josi jo - New York
Mundane stories of mundane topics. This CD reminded me of similar style books I read in the 1980's, which I DID enjoy back then. Nothing much new or exciting here particularly if you're a fan of this sort of genre. IF it's new to you then you may find the humor here and enjoy it. For me it was "old hat".

















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How to Ruin Your Life Review

This book is great. It really makes you think. You cant put yourself down more than ben stein does so there is no place else to go but up!!!!! Love the book. Great condition and arrived on time...whatelse could one ask for?

How to Ruin Your Life Overview

How to Ruin Your Life is a powerful self-help tool in the form of a work of humor. It is sardonic advice, presented in a tongue-in-cheek style, explaining how people can "ruin" their lives. Topics include essays such as "Convince Yourself That You�re The Center of the Universe," "Think The Worst of Everyone," and "You Can Change People."

Seriously, though, to anyone who listens to this CD, it is an earnest warning about falling into traps of self-destructive behavior that can ruin any man or woman�s life. More than that, it comprises 35 steps which�if read and understood�provide a road map to making life work in the most effective way possible. It is humor and self-help all in one, delivered by Ben Stein, a man who has witnessed more than his share of people who did ruin their lives�as well as those whose lives have been wildly successful.

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Customer Reviews

Don't Pay for Grandma's Common Sense - William Alexander - Spartanburg, SC
Since I loathed the "documentary" "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," I thought I would give Stein another chance. And this stinkbomb exploded in my face.

First off, Stein is obviously trying to be funny when discussing generic problems. But the humor is dead weight, bitter and dusty, even base. He's just not as amusing as he thinks he is. I am surprised his editor did not notice this and ask him to try to write a more straightforward book free from attempts at satire that come off as simply callous and even gleefully cruel.

There is absolutely nothing in this book that you could not get from talking to a loving, no-nonsense grandmother, and for free. Stein comes off, frankly, as a condescending boor, the paradigm of the stuffed-shirt "rich uncle" who seems to think that the world would be a better place if everyone was just like him. An exercise in the most appalling conceit that also seems to be disturbingly based on the assumption that every person and their situaton is more or less the same. It's so blandly conformist it's almost to the point of being a shade "creepy."

If you want real-world advice like this, talk to your mother, your grandmother, or your best a tell-it-like-it-is friend. And that won't cost you a copper farthing. And no one will intone, "Bueller, Bueller . . . . " But don't pay hard-earned cash for something you can get for absolutely nothing and from someone who actually cares instead of a wet blanket who only pretends to.

NO recommendation.










So funny - Nicholas Harris - Indiana
You will enjoy this book, and it will give you such good life lessons! A great conversation starter!





Not very good - J. Sacks -
This book is really not very good. It is a waste of time. The only thing I found funny was the chapter titles. The rest of the material is just fluff and a way for Ben Stein to cash in. I bought the book, read about 20 pages and finally gave up.


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Old Jews Telling Jokes: 5,000 Years of Funny Bits and Not-So-Kosher Laughs Review

Old Jews Telling Jokes: 5,000 Years of Funny Bits and Not-So-Kosher Laughs Overview

Jews have a centuries-old tradition of telling jokes, from the ghettos of Europe to Hollywood and the Catskills. Jewish jokes are entertainment, the oral history of a culture, insightful social criticism, and survival tactic rolled into one.

In 2008, Hollywood director and producer Sam Hoffman launched a website called �Old Jews Telling Jokes.� It�s just what it says: Jewish men and women over 60 sharing their favorite stories, tales, riddles, and punchlines.

The jokes are funny and reassuringly familiar, each told with gusto and infused with a lifetime of experience. For the book and audio, they are organized into chapters: Jewish Mothers, Food, Rabbis, Husbands and Wives, Sex, Illness and Doctors, Getting Old, Death, Oral Sex. Yes, you read that right. You �ll also hear judiciously chosen curses and other off-color language. Things get risqu�. So what can you do? Enjoy, and laugh out loud.

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Mike's Election Guide Review

Michael Moore takes a look at the current election and gives advise about how Barack Obama could win (which he obviously did)and answers questions about the U.S. Government (the one about the hanging chad cracked me up) and also what we should do with Bush on Jan. 20, 2009 (he thinks a purp.walk would be appropriate)

All in all a very funny, entertaining, fast read

Mike's Election Guide Overview

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In his first audiobook in five years, Michael Moore brings us the definitive guide to the 2008 election.

After a diastrous war, the failure to catch bin Laden, millions of families who have lost their homes, the Katrina debacle, soaring gas prices feeding record oil company profits, and the largest national debt caused by the biggest spending and borrowing administration in American history, the country has had it with conservatives, right-wingers and Republicans. A thrilling election season is now upon us. Obama vs. McCain. One candidate has promised a presidency different from any other, one that will take us forward to embrace the hope of the 21st century. The other candidate says he has no idea how to use a computer.

Welcome to MIKE'S ELECTION GUIDE -- Michael Moore's effort to make sense of this fall's race for the White House and Congress. In it, Moore answers the nation's most pressing questions: "Why is John McCain so angry?,""Do the Democrats Still Drink from a Sippy Cup and Sleep with the Light On?," Can I get into the Electoral College with only a 2.0 gpa?" and "How many Democrats does it take to lose the most winnable election in American history?"

It's a great year to be an American and a voter. Don't miss out on all the fun! And don't miss out on MIKE'S ELECTION GUIDE -- it's the indispensable voice that belongs in every American's ear this season.

(2008)

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Entertaining read although a smidgen light - Peter - Melbourne Australia
This is not a bad read at all. Michael Moore writes in an entertaining and humourous manner that makes one continue to read him.

The book is written in early 2008 when the question of whether Obama or McCain would be President was the crucial one for voters so Moore's book would have been good to use to provide a laugh but it was too light in terms of content to provide anything more than a laugh and to be used as a signpost for more reading on the topic.

Good read as always from Michael Moore.





Good book - Nancy Gamboa - Orange county, CA
i very much enjoyed this book although i wish i would have read this before the 2008 elections.





Expecting more - M. Juarez - Raleigh, NC USA
The book is amusing enough, and it does have a lot of facts, but I just wasn't thrilled with it. I adore my friend Michael, but I was a little disappointed,







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Interstate Audio- Comedy Volume 2 Review

Interstate Audio- Comedy Volume 2 Overview

Journey back to a time when radio reigned supreme in the hearts and minds of most Americans. Enjoy four Comedy shows from the golden age of radio. 2 hours of rip-roaring comedy thrills.

CD1-

The Aldrich Family- The Barter System starring Ezra Stone and Jackie Kelk

Ezra Stone first starred as Henry Aldrich in Clifford Goldsmith s 1937 Broadway play What a Life. Stone reprised his Broadway role in skits on Rudy Vallee s Royal Gelatin Hour and The Kate Smith Hour before The Aldrich Family as the 1939 summer replacement for the Jack Benny Program. The Aldrich Family was awarded its own weeknight birth that fall, and was an immediate ratings powerhouse, achieving a mammoth Crossley rating of 33.4 in 1941. Henry answered his mother s call for 13 years on radio, with Stone voicing the title role through most of the run. Stone s understudy Norman Tokar, Dickie Jones and Raymond Ives filled in during Stone s World War II military service, while TV-Henry Bobby Ellis assumed the famous role for the final radio season. Jackie Kelk (who also costarred as Jimmy Olsen on Superman) costarred as Henry s friend Homer Brown through most of the run, with Johnny Fiedler, Jack Grimes, and Michael O Day taking over during the final 1952-53 radio revival.

Amos n Andy- Adoption Woes starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll-

Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll starred as Amos Jones and Andy Brown for a third of a century, creating serialized radio drama and later helping perfect the situation comedy. Inspired by serial nature of newspaper strips like The Gumps, Gosden and Correll set out to create a comic strip of the airwaves. The duo debuted as Sam n Henry on January 12, 1926 over the Chicago Tribune s WGN, and the 15 minute serial was relaunched as Amos n Andy when Gosden and Correll moved to WMAQ beginning March 19, 1928. The syndicated serial moved onto NBC network beginning August 19, 1929, and reigned as radio s most popular program for several years. During the early 1930 s, the nation virtually stopped for 15 minutes each day as a third of its citizens tuned into the comedic misadventures of Amos Jones, Andy Brown and the wily George Stevens, the Kingfish of the Mystic Knights of the Sea lodge. The daily serial left the airwaves on February 19, 1943, but the Amos n Andy show returned on October 8, 1943 as a weekly sitcom. The revamped half-hour series featured a large interracial cast that included such superb African-American performers as Lillian and Amanda Randolph, Eddie Green, Johnny Lee, Ernestine Wade and Oscar-winners Hattie McDaniel and James Baskett. In 1955, Gosden and Correll returned to a daily format with The Amos n Andy Music Hall, a disc jockey series that continued over the CBS airwaves through November 25, 1960.

CD2-

Fibber McGee & Molly- Back From Vacation- Unpacking starring Jim and Marion Jordan-

Fibber McGee and Molly starred the husband-and-wife team of Jim and Marion Jordan, who had first auditioned for radio in 1925 to win a bet with Jim s brother. The top-rated series by former cartoonist Don Quinn, who had first teamed up with the Jordans on their earlier Smackout series. During the first season, Fibber and Molly were portrayed as a middle-aged couple exploring America in their automobile, a format that provided plenty of opportunities to promote their sponsor s line of auto waxes. The McGees eventually settled down at their famous 79 Wistful Vista address, where their lives were continually interrupted by visits from their Wistful Vista neighbors.

The Great Gildersleeve- The Matchmaker starring Hal Peary

The Great Gildersleeve was radio s most-successful and longest-running spinoff, and pioneered the popular sitcom format of an inept single father figure raising children on his own.

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American Thighs: The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Preserving Your Assets Review

Jill's books are always laugh out loud funny! This isn't her BEST book - if you're looking for an introduction to the Sweet Potato Queens, I'd recommend reading "The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love" - but if you know and love her, jump right in! There are plenty of laughs and yummy sounding recipes, too. Oh, one warning. My husband came out to ask why I was laughing my head off in the middle of the night, so I read the "offending" passage to him. He just shook his head and went back to bed muttering to himself. Oh well!

American Thighs: The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Preserving Your Assets Overview

Whether young enough to look �hot� or of the age to only feel that way (in flashes with buckets of sweat), every woman has given, or will give, ample thought to preserving her best �assets� (thighs included), so that the dread transition from �cute girl� to �ma�am� won�t be quite so unsettling.

Here are stories of growing up and learning about life � usually the hard way! From disastrous haircuts and color jobs to fashion or verbal faux pas committed, from the kiss wished for but never gotten to the one that should have been skipped, these are the moments that mark each of our journeys from what we thought back then to what we now know. Since to say that Youth is wasted on the Young has got to be the understatement of all time, it falls upon Browne, as one older and wiser, to take a �Hit and Run� down Memory Lane for the sake of offering �Asset-Preserving Tips,� with astonishing disclosures about:

� Why women have risked their lives just to get a little bit blonder
� How the muumuu has been fashionably resurrected as the �patio dress�
� Why it�s important to always have a good photo of yourself on hand � just in case
� How, no matter what skin you�re in, to make it last a lifetime
� Why you can never trust anyone over eighty-five

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hysterical as always - Carrie Boedeker- - Wyoming
I LOVE the sweet potato queens and hadn't read the books in a long time. I was so excited to find them again and see there were some I hadn't read yet. The books always make me laugh!





Love The Southern Woman - R. Coleman - Green Ridge, MO USA
I love all of Jill Connor Brown's books. This one is just as great as the first one I ever picked up!
You could never be depressed after reading one of Jill's books. She gives you her own Southern brand of therapy.










She did it again! - Lane Springer -
Jill has gone back to her previous writing style and I love it! Couldn't wait for this book to hit the shelves (at Amazon that is!) so I could dive in:-)


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Mullah Nasrudin - Orientalische Eulenspiegeleien 2 (German Edition) Review

Mullah Nasrudin - Orientalische Eulenspiegeleien 2 (German Edition) Overview

The Nasruddin stories, known throughout the Middle East, constitute one of the strangest achievements in the history of metaphysics. Superficially, most of the Nasruddin stories may be used as jokes. They are told and retold endlessly in the tea houses and caravanserais, in the homes and on the radio waves of Asia. But, it is inherent in the Nasruddin story, that it may be understood of many depths. There is the joke, the moral- and the little extra which brings the consciousness of the potential mystic a little further on the way of realization. The Character The figure and reputation of Nasruddin are well known in Turkey and, indeed, many parts of Central Asia. Nasruddin has always been the universal uncle ; sometimes a wise man, sometimes a fool. He is everyman in the sense that he finds himself in so many and varied situations, some of them of his own making, that show every strength and weakness of human character. He belongs to us all, rich. poor, urban or town dweller and reflects many facets of human reaction to the most complex or unusual situations. His stories all contain a lesson, however comical or seemingly stupidly he may seem to behave. His stories, for young and old, have a fascination and a humour that is kind, gentle and thoughtful. Contents embedded in authentic classical Turkish music and songs this CD is presenting 10 chapters about this famous character: The Everyday Life of Nasruddin; Nasruddin at Dinner; Nasruddin at Work; Nasruddin's Animals; Nasruddin and his Wife; Nasruddin Today; Nasruddin and the Philosophy; Nasruddin and the Children; Nasruddin and Money; Nasruddin's Speech; Some of the music pieces have been recorded during a live concert in Berlin Philharmony. One title is played with as many as 28 instruments. Some of the pieces have been composed especially for the Nasruddin CD. The predecessor of this English Audio Book the German CD Mullah Nasrudin Orientalische Eulenspiegelein has been sold out and will be replaced in Q 1/07 by the translation of this English version, produced with professional German mother tongue speakers/actors accompanied by the same music.

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The "Good Life": When I'm 65 v. 8 (BBC Audio) Review

The "Good Life": When I'm 65 v. 8 (BBC Audio) Overview

The last two original BBC Television episodes of the much-loved classic sitcom starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith. Tom, Barbara, Jerry and Margo return in the last two episodes ever made: the Christmas special "Silly, But It's Fun" and the Royal Command Performance episode, "When I'm 65". "Silly, But It's Fun" (26 December 1977) - The Goods are getting into the spirit of Christmas: they have newspaper paperchains up in the pigsty and Tom's managed to get hold of a Christmas tree. Well, part of one. Margo, however, is having a crisis: her Christmas tree is six-and-a-quarter inches too short. Christmas is cancelled for the Leadbeatters. But can Margo get into the silly spirit at Tom and Barbara's house instead? "When I'm 65" (10 June 1978) - Jerry, now an International Executive, has had a medical - but he's not as healthy as he thought he was. After too much ribbing from Tom, there's only one way to find out who's the fittest man...It's the rat-race versus self-sufficiency in this last ever episode of "The Good Life", which was specially filmed at the BBC Television Centre in front of Her Majesty The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. It includes linking narration to these TV soundtracks by Penelope Keith.

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The Wit of Cricket Review

The Wit of Cricket Overview

Recorded live in front of appreciative theatre audiences, here are dozens of hilarious stories about legendary Test cricketers such as Richie Benaud, Ian Botham, Geoffrey Boycott, Michael Holding and Fred Trueman - as well as some of the most famous gaffes and practical jokes carried out by the commentary team on BBC Radio's Test Match Special. You can enjoy three of the best storytellers in the business as they prove that cricket is a funny game - even when rain stops play!

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Wigfield Review

This book is great. I found it to be hilarious! You can see the personalities of the authors in the writing. I have always liked Sedaris, Dinello, and Colbert. I am a big fan of Exit 57, Strangers With Candy, The Colbert Report, and other various movies and things that they have been in.

Wigfield Overview

Wigfield is a small bucolic hideaway, situated in front of a massive dam which is about to be torn down by the state government to restore the salmon run. Wigfield's only hope lies in the self-righteous, self-involved "journalist" Russell Hokes, who arrives hoping to capture the quiet dignity of the disappearing American Small Town. However, Wigfield is nether quiet nor dignified. As the date of destruction draws nearer, Hokes casts about desperate to find something about Wigfield worth documenting. WIGFIELD is a razor-sharp satire by three major talents.

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Wigfield is in peril. The Bulkwaller Dam, which towers over the tiny town, is scheduled to be destroyed which would in turn wipe out Wigfield. Journalist Russell Hokes travels there to profile the brave and honest citizens who are struggling to save their community. Well, sort of. Actually, Wigfield is not so much a town as a series of ramshackle strip clubs and used-auto-parts stores, lacking any kind of civic infrastructure whatsoever. And its people are not so much "brave and honest" as "brutal," "homicidal," and "lacking any redeeming virtue whatsoever." Similarly, to call Hokes, who narrates his own struggles to gather accumulate 50,000 words, a "journalist" is at best an exaggeration and at worst an abomination against the institution of journalism itself.

The world of Wigfield, as concocted by the brilliant Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, and Amy Sedaris (creators of the Comedy Central series Strangers with Candy), is somewhat reminiscent of the slice-of-life small-town humor of Christopher Guest's Waiting for Guffman. But instead of putting on a musical, as the Guffman folks did, the people of Wigfield busy themselves trying to acquire government handouts and stabbing each other to death. When the government rebuffs their efforts, based on the fact that they're not technically a town, they come up with a plan to get paid anyway. Wigfield's residents (as played by Colbert, Dinello, and Sedaris) are portrayed in a series of compellingly grotesque portraits by renowned designer and photographer Todd Oldham. The humor of the book--much like the town's mentality--is dense, as nearly every sentence contains one or several grimly hilarious references. Fans of feel-good whimsy are advised to navigate toward lighter fare but social pariahs, disgraced journalists, brooding malcontented sociopaths, and anyone who enjoys dark, twisted, and profoundly funny writing will find a home in Wigfield. --John Moe

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Hilarity - K. Verma -
I loved it...so funny. Classic Strangers With Candy type humor/greatness.
I thumb through it every now and then and laugh it up.





Not as Funny as it Should Be - JustinWrites - Los Angeles
The first ten to fifteen pages of this humor novel -- about a fictional "town" nestled at the base of a dam that's about to be destroyed and will bring about the flooding of its denizens -- gave me some of the biggest laughs I've had in quite some time. The three humorists, who met at Second City in Chicago and are responsible for creating "Strangers With Candy," teamed up to create Russell Hokes, a non-writer who gets a contract with Hyperion Books to write a non-fiction tale of a small town on the brink of extinction. The book is composed of Hokes trying desperately to fill the 50,000 words that his contract requires, allowing lots of twisted metaphors, wacky similes and just badly constructed sentences that are pretty amusing. There are also a ton of first-person accounts of life in Wigfield, from the 3 competing mayors, to the local str1ppers, to the oldest women in Wigfield (in their mid-late forties) and all the townspeople in between.

While it starts strong and has a few really hilarious passages, overall I thought it ran out of steam and was just too slight a premise to sustain for 200 pages. Much better than the Steve Martin book, "The Pleasure of My Company," which takes an idea that could sustain a tight 20-30 pages nicely, but becomes just unbearable at 200 pages.










Wigfield revisited - heidi sullivan - boone, nc
Hilarious book, I have purchased 5 copies just so I can give them to friends.


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Naked Review

David Sedaris proves that the spazziest of kids can grow up and produce great writing. He is so smart, but it took him many years of effing up to finally figure out what he was good at. Once he figured it out, he has produced a number of very funny, very human, very wonderful books. He makes me laugh and cry and remember my own childhood. I am so glad to see a writer get recognized who isn't some snarky blogging gen x'er. This may not be his funniest book, but it is a great one.

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Naked Overview

Naked is a riotous compilation of stories performed by David and Amy Sedaris. Publishers Weekly praised this program's "smashing use of the audio as a unique entertainment medium" and called the performances "highly likeable and spirited throughout." They also named it one of "the best of the best" tapes of the year, and deemed it worthy of "multiple listens."

Naked Specifications

Hip radio comedy fans and theater folks who belong to the cult of Obie-winning playwright/performer David Sedaris must kill to get this book. These would be fans of the scaldingly snide Sedaris's hilariously described personal misadventures like The Santaland Diaries (a monologue about his work as an elf to a department store Santa) seen off-Broadway in 1997. In a series of similarly textured essays, Sedaris takes us along on his catastrophic detours through a nudist colony, a fruit-packing plant, his own childhood, and a dozen more of the world's little purgatories.

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Good book, irritating voice - scotta2 -
I bought this audio book because I recently read Me Talk Pretty One Day and absolutely loved it. I definitely enjoyed Naked and it kept me entertained on a long car trip, but I probably wouldn't buy another audio book by David Sedaris just because his voice is kind of irritating and hard to get used to. I think his books are hilarious but would prefer to read them on paper. Great writer though!





Laugh Out Loud Funny - Marla Martenson - Los Angeles, Ca
naked was my first David Sedaris experience. A friend recommended it and I am so glad he did. Sedaris is a brilliant writer and can turn any mundane situation into a hilarious event. There is a chapter devoted to his "ticks" ... meaning his impulsive desire to lick a light switch or touch certain things. I was reading that chapter while sipping coffee at the Pancake House and I started laughing out loud! He has a lifelong fan in me.










Only read this alone - Booksie Galore - Arkansas
I laughed until I cried, unfortunately I like to read late at night in bed and my husband didn't get much sleep. Warning........ fabulously talented artist at work in this book.


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Jean Shepherd: Security Blankets Review

Listening to our great leader's selected shows from years ago is very uplifting, and I am collecting all that are available. His candor and often unique point of view is what got me through some difficult teenage and young adult years, and I enjoy hearing his voice whenever I can.

Jean Shepherd: Security Blankets Overview

Radio Again is pleased to present 4 classic radio performances by raconteur Jean Shepherd from the archives of Hartwest Productions.

In Security Blankets , Jean Shepherd expounds on the joy of working in radio, monster movies, the beauty of the kazoo, his quick-change artistry as a theater performer, and on human illusions, foibles, and impenetrable human complexity. What is your security blanket? This is vintage Shepherd -- humorous, serious, witty, clever and silly all in the same show!

Includes liner notes with excerpts from the biography EXCELSIOR, YOU FATHEAD! The Art and Enigma of JEAN SHEPHERD By Eugene B. Bergmann.

The radio programs in this collection, long lost and forgotten, were created in the mid 1960 s by Shepherd for radio and television syndicator Hartwest Productions in the format heard on Shepherd s WOR shows of the day, right down to his familiar Bahn Frei theme music.

4 Audio CDs - Digitally Remastered and Restored. Each program is approximately 44 minutes. Total running time approximately 3 hours.

CD 1 The Best Job In The World

CD 2 Scut

CD 3 Foretelling The Future

CD 4 Security Blankets

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Great to hear Shep, even with second-rate material - Mark Lore - Virginia, USA
I've been a Jean Shepherd fan since my high school days in N.J., when he was at his radio prime out of New York City. This collection of Cd's captures his inimitable personality, his infectious laugh and his general sense of the absurd. Unfortunately, it has none of the semi-autobiographical reminiscence that made "A Christmas Story" such a popular favorite and which mark Shepard's most memorable work, at least for me. Perhaps this is only available in the printed form -- check out, for example, "A Fistful of Fig Newtons" A Fistful of Fig Newtons. But even second-rate Shepherd is worth the price! Technically, my only complaint -- which others have made as well -- is that the producers did not insert tracks, so that there's no way to go directly to favorite sections of these 45-minute programs.

















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Why Sh*t Happens: The Science of A Really Bad Day Review

Dr Bentley has crafted a light hearted, easy to read book that takes you through one of the worst days imaginable and then teaches you exactly what the science behind the event is. He details 39 bad events with great humor, which quickly draws you into the idea, and then he follows with a 5 to 10 page discourse on the science behind the event.

Our protagonist, a business man who should have really never left the bed in the morning, Goes through a sequence of events; none of them particularly horrid, but all very annoying. Each event, whether its a bee sting or eating dirt and glass, is used as a launching point for a discussion on such topics as to why the bee stings, how the teeth work, how the digestive system protects you and so on.

There are 39 chapters in the book, each contains a mini lesson. In general, the lessons are:

1) sleeping through the alarm
2) slipping on soap
3) cutting yourself shaving
4) toast on fire
5) exploding liquids
6) milk gone bad
7) wet mp3 player
8) bird droppings
9) forgotten bag
10) skidding on the road
11) diesel instead of gas
12) tripping on the curb
13) chewing gum in hair
14) rain soaked clothing
15) being lost
16) bee sting
17) sticking yourself with superglue
18) electromagnetic interference from phone
19) puncture
20) leaking pens
21) mistaken identity
22) torn clothing
23) opening an e-mail virus
24) jammed finger
25) computer hard disk failure
26) broken finger
27) dropping keys down the drain
28) pulled muscle
29) sparking microwave
30) broken glass
31) stains
32) chile pepper in the eye
33) food on the floor
34) lighning kills the tv
35) burns and blisters
36) scratched cd
37) broken tooth
38) stubbed toe
39) overflowing bath

The chapters are fairly self contained, so reading out of order won't detract. A truly fun read.

Why Sh*t Happens: The Science of A Really Bad Day Overview

Your laptop mysteriously crashes. There�s a fresh red wine stain on the carpet. An overhead bird targets your windshield. Sh*t, as they say, happens � to all of us. But have you ever thought about why such accidents occur? It�s not just bad luck. . . What causes the mishaps that can ruin your day?
In Why Sh*t Happens, esteemed scientist Peter J. Bentley tackles the realm of everyday disaster through a highly empirical approach informed by wit and humor. Bentley brilliantly explores accident on a molecular level, arming you with an essential understanding of what went wrong and explaining how to prevent future bouts of misfortune.
Science is respected, trusted, and according to Bentley, widely misunderstood. When your car engine is damaged by the wrong gasoline or the milk goes bad in the fridge, science is not to blame, but rather can provide an explanation. As he makes his way, mishap by mishap, through an imaginary day in which Murphy�s Law reigns supreme, Bentley reveals the scientific truths from which our daily aggravations originate.
Sh*t will always happen, and now you will know exactly why. Enter, if you dare, the most accident-prone day of your life. . .

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Decent concept, awkward execution - Mary A. Swaty - Phoenix, AZ

The title promises entertainment in addition to science. What you get is straight science with very little narrative connection and no ending. I've read science popularizations that were much better done.










Mostly science I already knew - bhr - Bryn Mawr, PA USA
This is a neat little book about a really sad dude who has the worst day ever. Each chapter starts with something awful happening to him and then goes into the science behind why or how that happened.

Much of the science is something a person with any analytic background will already know. There is some new stuff, and I really liked the way it was presented.

The overall tone of the book had me thinking of some kind of british special that John Cleese might narrate - like the science behind beauty thing he did with that Hurley woman.

Overall, a very approachable book that explains the logic behind all the stuff that happens, and lets you explain way bad luck.

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You Can't Always Tell A Book By Its Title - Michael Gunther - Maryland, USA
In spite of its humorous title, this book is really just a collection of 39 short (non-humorous) essays about science in everyday life: what happens if you stick your fork into a toaster (you get electrocuted), why you shouldn't put regular gas into a diesel engine, why soap is slippery, winestains are hard to remove, etc. The chapters are unconnected, and can be browsed in any order.

With this kind of book, a lot of disconnected information is tossed at the reader but there aren't any unifying ideas or themes. You will learn some interesting everyday science facts, although many of the examples are well-known and have been done lots of times before: cooking at altitude, why divers get the bends, how CDs work. To summarize, this is a book that most readers will just browse through quickly, or dip into briefly to pass the time.


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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary Review

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary Overview

Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life.

In "The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck," three strangers commiserate about animal bureaucracy while waiting in a complaint line. In "Hello Kitty," a cynical feline struggles to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings. In "The Squirrel and the Chipmunk," a pair of star-crossed lovers is separated by prejudiced family members.

Once again David Sedaris shows us the most outrageous, tender, absurd sides of ourselves in his "profoundly funny, well-crafted stories that somehow, magically, bring home a major point about fidelity or guilt or love" (Christian Science Monitor).

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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir Review

If you grew up in the 50's, 60's, 70's, and even the 80's, and you enjoy reading, you simply MUST read this book. I was born in '68, well after Bill Bryson, and most of which he wrote were things that I experienced as a kid. It made me smile, laugh, and even brought a tear to my eye. For some reason, this book is in my top ten of all time. I loved it that much....

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From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. A book that delivers on the promise that it is �laugh-out-loud funny.�

Some say that the first hints that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came from his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. It may have looked like an old college football sweater, but young Bryson knew better. It was obviously the Sacred Jersey of Zap, and proved that he had been placed with this innocuous family in the middle of America to fly, become invisible, shoot guns out of people�s hands from a distance, and wear his underpants over his jeans in the manner of Superman.

Bill Bryson�s first travel book opened with the immortal line, �I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.� In this hilarious new memoir, he travels back to explore the kid he once was and the weird and wonderful world of 1950s America. He modestly claims that this is a book about not very much: about being small and getting much larger slowly. But for the rest of us, it is a laugh-out-loud book that will speak volumes � especially to anyone who has ever been young.

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The Thunderbolt Kid - Francis W. Chamberand -
Typical Bill Bryson - exaggerated humor - laugh out loud funny. Book is a kind of tongue-in-cheek remembrance of growing up in Iowa. Very enjoyable reading





The 50's - JerseyGirl - Charlotte, NC
I read Bill Bryson's "A Walk in the Woods" and laughed so hard I was crying. I was expecting the same with "The Thunderbolt Kid". However, this is more a reminiscence of life in the Midwest in the 1950's. There were a few funny moments in this book but not nearly as many as a "A Walk in the Woods".

If you are a baby boomer and enjoy reading about growing up in that era, then this book will appeal. There are things here that all of us can enjoy if you are like me, a child of the 1950's.

The author uses the book as a tool for rants against the United States in some of the last chapters. He particularly has great unhappiness with Republicans, the CIA, and Nixon among others.

However, if you like to read about the past and remember some of the good times of the era then this is a fun book; it is just not as laugh out loud funny as "A Walk in the Woods". I did enjoy catching up with Bill Bryson's old friend, Stephen Katz, who accompanied him on his walk in the wood on the Applachian Trail. Since it is not quite as funny as the other book, I chose to give this book 3 stars. I like Bryson best when he is making me laugh.










a gut-buster - Jim -
If you were born in the 1950's as I was you really have to read this book. So much that I have forgotten is brought back to vivid life.
I got this with my new kindle, it's the first book I have read on it. A word of warning though, it's a real buster. I'm steal laughing.


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The Loving Dead Review

What would you do if you threw a normal party on a Saturday night, hoping to hook up with your hot roommate, and all of the sudden one of the guests turns into a zombie? As night turns to day and more people become infected (some from bites, some from sexual activity), it becomes clear that you need to help your friends and protect yourself. On a crazy jaunt through the city, switching between the perspectives of the two main characters, it's a hectic search for truth, safety, and a little bit of love.

Playful and darkly humorous, this book made me laugh out loud at times. The plot moves along swiftly and the characters are believable as innocent, self involved, good-hearted, and slightly sex-obsessed adults in their 20's who work at Trader Joe's (which for some odd reason made the story believable, despite the presence of large numbers of zombies). Broader themes about fear, the apocalypse, and STD's are mixed in with witty dialogue and unconventional love. Fans of the the San Francisco Bay Area will enjoy references to local hot spots. If your tastes run towards zombie literature, you will not be disappointed. In case you read the editorial review, I disagree with their comments about the ending.

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Kate and Michael, twenty-something housemates working at the same Trader Joe�s supermarket, are thoroughly screwed when people start turning into zombies at their house party in the Oakland hills. The zombie plague is a sexually transmitted disease, turning its victims into shambling, horny, voracious killers.

Thrust into extremes by the unfolding tragedy, Kate and Michael are forced to confront the decisions they�ve made, and their fears of commitment, while trying to stay alive. Michael convinces Kate to meet him in the one place in the Bay Area that�s likely to be safe and secure from the zombie hordes: Alcatraz. But can they stay human long enough?

�In The Loving Dead, Amelia Beamer gives us a zombie novel like none other. Crisp, smooth and stylish, it zips along from scene to scene, accumulating tension, humor and insight as it accelerates. It is also comic and sexy, a combination I find irresistible.� � Peter Straub, author of A Dark Matter

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The Pathetic Dead - CrawlingChaos -
Ever watch a horror movie where you see some of the characters go off into another room and have sex even when their friends are being killed around them and wonder why aren't they more concerned about the impending death on the other side of the door or why they are turned on instead of grieving over the loss of their friends?

If so, don't read The Loving Dead. The one dimensional characters of the book only have one thing on their minds: getting laid.

In the beginning of the book there is a party where someone turns into a zombie and bites the lip off of another person. So what do our main characters Kate and Michael (the hosts of the party) do? Tie the zombies up and lock them in the room, take some Xanax and grope each other while watching zombie movies.

The rest of the book is about them going their separate ways and if they'll meet up again because they haven't had sex with each other yet. There's not much of a plot arc aside from some random encounters and graphic sex before it all comes stumbling to the end awkwardly, then extends for an extra pointless chapter. The dialog is more stilted and full of pop culture references than a Diablo Cody script.

Instead of buying this book just purchase World War Z and a Letters To Penthouse then cut pages out of the Penthouse book and tape them into random places of World War Z. You will have had the same effect as reading The Loving Dead but will be more enjoyable than the torture of trying to struggle through the horrible writing in it.

Also I want to add that the reason I picked up this book aside from the fact that I'm a fan of zombie-themed media is the fact that it was endorsed by several well respected that I now respect slightly less.





One of the Best books I've read this year - John Grace - Grand Haven, MI
This has to be one of the best books, and best zombie books I've read this year. Where/why zombies come from makes sense. How the zombies roll out into society is thought out well. And one of the best parts about this story is the small details you'll find here and there that make the whole thing make more sense but don't become excess baubles.












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