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Fat White Vampire Blues
Andrew Fox
Ballantine Books, 2003
A trainwreck waiting to happen
+ Fat White Vampire Blues
The review title says it all in relation to Jules Duchon. But for us readers this is a great thing, because just like millions of rubberneckers out there, you see it coming and you just can't look away!
Jules is the extreme anti-thesis of what most people think of when they hear the word ...
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Delete This at Your Peril: One Man's Hilarious Exchanges with Internet Spammers
Bob Servant
Skyhorse Publishing, 2008
Spamming for lions
+ Absurdity Fights Spam
+ Making Spam Fun
+ Wonderful!
+ Some full out belly laughs amid the delirious and delicious satire
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Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
P. G. Wodehouse
Overlook Hardcover, 2002
Gentle satire of upperclass life seen through the eyes of a "gentleman's gentleman."
+ Another Wooster and Jeeves Classic From the Master
+ Just keeps getting better
+ Cecil again is the perfect Wodehouse reader
+ Hilarity for Anglophiles
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Anti-Christ: A Satirical End of Days
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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Can You Drill a Hole Through Your Head and Survive?: 180 Fascinating Questions and Amazing Answers About ...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2007
Questions You've Probably Thought About But Never Thought Someone Would Answer!
+ Fascinating Answers to Weird Questions
+ Amazing Graphics/Fascinating Triva
First off let me just point out that this book is exactly the same book as How Slow Can you Waterski? and other puzzling questions.... I work in a library and many people often request the exact same book they have already read and these two are a common mistake made by readers who loved one of ...
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A Practical Guide to Racism
C. H. Dalton
Gotham, 2007
if I could give it six stars, I would
+ I promise not to use the word "Swiftian" in this review
+ Greatness in paper form.
+ Hoptoit McPants
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris
Little, Brown and Company, 2008
LOL
+ Naked barrels engulfed in pretty denim
+ seemed somewhat different...but not worse than others.
+ Fabulous!
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Murder with Peacocks (Meg Langslow Mysteries)
Donna Andrews
St. Martin's Minotaur, 2000
Murder With Peacocks
+ fun cozy
+ I wish she wrote these faster
+ I can see why it won a prize!
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NOW Who Do We Blame?: Political Cartoons by Tom Toles
Tom Toles
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2005
Sheer Genius, the People's Poet Cartoonist Laureate
I start every day with the Tom Toles cartoon in the Washington Post, and consider him to be the Nation's poet cartoonist laureate. I've taken to buying his books as well, for cheer, for reflection, as gifts, and as a collector's item.
The publisher has done this book a real dis-service by not ...
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Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings (Today Show Book Club #25)
Christopher Moore
HarperCollins, 2004
Only Moore is so Imaginative, thought-provoking, and hilarious
+ Good, but could be better
Nate Quinn, a nerdy, quiet behavior-biologist is investigating the humpback's song with his photographer and best friend Clay Demodocus, a young wannabe Rastafarian Kona, and the hot (though 1920s slang-spewing) assistant Amy Earhart. Suddenly, he sees a message on the fluke of a whale: Bite Me. ...
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Chuck Klosterman
Scribner, 2004
brilliant, poignant and deliciously clever.
+ No flow but the essays individually are thought-provoking and halarious!
+ Fun in the Sun
+ Smart, witty, entertaining...
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Villa Incognito
Tom Robbins
Bantam, 2004
A polarizing book.
It seems to me that Tom Robbins books are hit or miss. This book is one of the more polarizing titles. However, I think its gotten a bad rap. Considerably shroter than most of his books, I think its enjoyable as a quick read. I guess some people want and expect something longer from Robbins.
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The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue: A Child of the Fifties Looks Back
Robert Klein
Touchstone, 2006
Childhood and early career memoirs of life in the 1950s and 60s.
+ Robert Klein's Unique Perspectives
+ Robert Klein's "The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue"
+ Buy it!
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Another Fine Myth/Myth Conceptions 2-in1 (Myth 2-in-1)
Robert Asprin
Ace, 2002
Written for teens but great light reading for adults too
+ Mythical Madness
+ One of my favorite lighthearted fantasy series
+ I couldn't love this book anymore
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PLEASURE OF MY COMPANY, THE: A NOVELLA
Steve Martin
Hyperion, 2004
Wild and Crazy OCD Guy!
+ A story of a neaurotic man capable of great tenderness
+ Cute story - great read
+ An enjoyable read - insights into OCD
+ A Sweet Little Story
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