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How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel

Alain De Bottom

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An erudite meditation on Marcel Proust's life - and its lessons 5 out of 5 stars.
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Are you tired of self-help manuals? Is that because the authors often seem to need help themselves? Or they all spout the same buzzwords and clichés? Or they are banal and boring? It sounds as if you are all self-help-manualed-out. Perhaps you need something different. Try Marcel Proust, revered master of exquisite expression and luminous prose. In Search of Lost Time, also called Remembrance of Things Past, Proust's one-and-a-quarter-million-word magnum opus, does not contain a trite sentence or conventional thought. You can learn much about living from such a profound genius, including how to spend your time, how to see and feel things, and why, sometimes, it is best just to stay in bed. Alain de Botton is your witty, often hilarious guide, providing valuable life lessons from Proust's writings and thoughts. getAbstract finds this ingenious, utterly original treatment thoroughly enjoyable. Wishing you the same.

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A perfect companion to Swann's Way, this innovative study explores Proust and why he matters. Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres --literary biography and self-help manual -- in this charming and unexpectedly practical book. Drawing from Proust's letters, essays, and fiction, de Botton transforms Proust's life and work into a no-nonsense guide to life, including: enjoying your vacation, reviving a relationship, articulating yourself in an original way, being a good host, recognizing love, and why not to sleep with someone on the first date. De Botton succeeds in creating both a brilliant biographical sketch of one of literature's most beguiling figures and a witty exercise in literary criticism. 2 cassettes.

The Funny Thing Is...

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Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling My Point...and I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a hilarious new book. That book is this audiobook.

After years of painstaking, round-the-clock research, surviving on a mere twenty minutes of sleep a night, and collaborating with lexicographers, plumbers, and mathematicians, DeGeneres has crafted a work that is both easy on the ears and very funny. Along with her trademark ramblings, The Funny Thing Is...contains hundreds of succinct insights into her psyche, and offers innovative features including:

• More than 50,000 simple, short words arranged in sentences that form paragraphs.
• Thousands of observations on everyday life -- from terrible fashion trends to how to handle seating arrangements for a Sunday brunch with Paula Abdul, Diane Sawyer, and Eminem.
• All twenty-six letters of the alphabet read aloud.

Sure to make you laugh, The Funny Thing Is...is Ellen in top form.

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (Library Edition in vinyl case)

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In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan - Alistair Cooke then, Anna Wintour now - so why couldn't he? But things didn't go quite according to plan. Within the space of two years he was fired from Vanity Fair, banned from the most fashionable bar in the city, and couldn't get a date for love or money. Even the local AA group wanted nothing to do with him.

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is Toby Young's hilarious account of the five years he spent looking for love in all the wrong places and steadily working his way down the New York food chain, from glossy magazine editor to crash-test dummy for interactive sex toys. But it's more than "the longest self-deprecating joke since the complete works of Woody Allen" (Sunday Times); it's also a seditious attack on the culture of celebrity from inside the belly of the beast. And there's even a happy ending as Toby Young marries - "for proper non-cynical reasons," as he puts it - the woman of his dreams. "Some people are lucky enough to stumble across the right path straight away; most of us only discover what the right one is by going down the wrong one first."

Succulent Wild Woman: Dancing With Your Wonder-Full Self!

Sark

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Total reviews: 90 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

a great gift for any woman needing a pick me up 5 out of 5 stars.
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I love SARK. This is another addition to the wonderful collection of whimsical, colorful, and insightful books she has written.

Very easy (and fun) to read, if i'm ever feeling down, I just read a few pages of SARK and I always feel a little better.

This book is a good introduction to the world of SARK and great gift if you know any woman that needs a self esteem boost. It's witty and deep without being tedious to read or annoyingly sweet. Sometimes we all need to be reminded that we are wonderful and creative beings and need that little inspiration to connect with our spirit to create and do things that make us feel alive.

SARK shows us that attitude and small actions can make positive and unexpected things happen in our lives. she gives many examples of this from her own life. Love it! every woman should own a copy.

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Exulting in the pleasure of living life to its fullest, SARK explores everything from sexuality, love and romance to money and power, fat, fears and recovery. Here are the keys for women to express themselves freely in every dimension. 2 cassettes.

Funny You Don't Look Like a Grandmother

Lois Wyse

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Total reviews: 15 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

The Fun About Being A Grandmother 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a laugh-out-loud book but with capturing the deep emotins of becoming a grandmother at the same time. Ms Wyse has certainly captured the modern style of being a grandmother and made her come to life. I have given it to each of my friends as they announce they are going to be a grandmother.I also reread it from time to time just to see how I am doing as a grandmother and what might come next.

Celebrating Grandmotherhood 5 out of 5 stars.
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A great gift for the soon be be grandmother or grandmothers at any stage!

hysterical 4 out of 5 stars.
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Bought this for my mother, and decided to read it after her.
Very well written, and mom was very pleased as well.

Gift for my mom 5 out of 5 stars.
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I sent this to my mom for mother's day as a gift from my twins, who aren't born yet. She poured through it within a matter of days and said she loved it.

gret gift 4 out of 5 stars.
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I gave this book as a gifrt to a friend who had her first grand baby She loved it immensly

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Offers a light and tender look at modern grandmothers, brimming with warmth, humor and a special affection for family. 2 cassettes.

Eat the Rich

P.J. O'Rourke

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Read by the Author

In P.J. O'Rourke's classic bestseller Parliament of Whores, he attempted to explain the entire United States government.  In Eat the Rich, he takes on an even broader subject, but one that is dear to us all - wealth.

What is it?  How do you get it?  Or, as P.J. says, "Why do some places prosper and thrive, while others just suck?"

The starting point is Wall Street.  P.J. takes the listener on a scary hilarious, and enlightening visit to the New York Stock Exchange, then sets off on a world tour to investigate funny economics  Having seen "good" capitalism on Wall Street, he looks at "bad" capitalism in Albania, views "good" socialism in Sweden, and endures "bad" socialism in Cuba.  Head reeling, he describes to tackle that Econ 101 course he avoided in college.  The result is the only astute presentation of the principles of economics that can make you laugh on purpose

Armed with theory, P.J. ventures to Russia, Tanzania, Hong Kong, and ends up in Shanghai, observing a top-down transition to capitalism.

P.J.'s conclusion in a nutshell: the free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there's nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you.

Rumble in the Jungle

Giles Andreae

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Take a look 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is such a cute book. Bright and colorful pictures to look at, with a story that isn't too repetitive. Readers will not mind reading time and again to children

Fun for parents and kids 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book has been a favorite in our home since we got it over 8 years ago. The pictures are beautiful and fun. The rhymes are great. It is one of the few books that I do not tire of reading over and over and over again to the kiddos.

Only draw-back is that it is permanately stuck in my head. Can't go to the zoo without finding myself saying the rhymes. Oh, who am I kidding, that's not a draw-back...it is kinda fun! hee hee

Rumble in the Jungle! Rocks!! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is beautifully illustrated. The vibrant colors invited my students to be actively engaged while we were reading it together. The rhyme scheme of the book made my students laugh and learn at the same time. Humor is always a good way to learn. I would reccomend this book to anyone.

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"There's a rumble in the jungle, there's a whisper in the trees; the animals are waking up and rustling the leaves!" Join this rhyming safari and meet everyone from the elphing elephant to the gangly giraffe, and maybe even the terrible tiger!

Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

Dave Barry

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The Funniest Book I've Ever Read 5 out of 5 stars.
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Dave Barry's "Dave Barry Slept Here" is a hilarious pseudo/satire-history of the United States. Anyone familiar with Dave Barry's wit from his columns will immediately recognize the same wit unleashed on so much of our history that we have heard, if not necessarily really learned, throughout our lives.

Dave Barry writes like a high-school student - intentionally, of course. He attributes great advances to "technology," isn't interested in the Smoot-Hawley Tariff so he skips it because it sounds boring, and decides that every important event in American history happened on October 8th so that he doesn't have to remember any more dates (even the Fourth of July happened on October 8th, 1776). And he ends every chapter with hilarious "discussion questions" that are just as funny as the text.

I've read and re-read this hilarious book, and it's great to just pick up and start reading in the middle whenever you need a good chuckle. Anyone who likes Dave Barry, enjoys American history, or is interested in what three-word sentence you can rearrange the letters in "Spiro Agnew" to spell (hint: the first word is "grow") should read this book and enjoy!

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The bestseller that riotously recreates a "sort of" history of the United States, from the "funniest man in America."

-- The New York Times

What the Blitz did for London, satirist Dave Barry now gleefully does for the story of our country. Beginning with his riveting off-the-wall account of our nation's early years -- "England Starts Some Fun Colonies" -- to his uproarious version of today's headlines -- "The Reagan-Bush Years: Napping Toward Glory" -- Barry gives us history without the dull parts, factless but very, very funny. From the buffalo who roamed (where were they going, anyway?) onward, here is an instant, streamlined compendium of events as they never actually happened.

With tongue firmly planted in both cheeks, Dave Barry has tackled the problem of our nationwide historical illiteracy with a devilishly clever narrative that will irrevocably close the American mind!

Who's Your Caddy?: Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf

Rick Reilly

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The funniest and most popular sportswriter in America abandons his desk at Sports Illustrated to caddy for some of the world’s most famous golfers, and some celebrity duffers, recounting it all in this hilarious and revealing look at the world of golf.

Who knows a golfer best? Who’s with them every minute of every round, hears their muttering, knows whether they cheat? Their caddies, of course. So sportswriter Rick Reilly figured that he could learn a lot about the players and their games by caddying, even though he had absolutely no idea how to do it. Amazingly, some of the best golfers in the world—including Jack Nicklaus, David Duval, Tom Lehman, John Daly, Casey
Martin, and Jill McGill—agreed to let Reilly carry their bags at actual PGA and LPGA Tour events. To round out his portrait of the golfing life, Reilly also caddied at the Masters, persuaded Deepak Chopra and Donald Trump to use him as a caddy, accompanied high-rolling golf hustlers in Las Vegas around the course, and carried the bag for a blind golfer.

In Who’s Your Caddy?, Reilly chronicles his experiences in the same inimitable style that makes his back-page column for Sports Illustrated a must-read for more than twenty million people every week. From his laugh-out-loud portrait of Deepak Chopra decomposing on the green, to his portraits of good ol’ boys who bet $100,000 a round, to his hilarious descriptions of his own ineptitude as a caddy, to his insights into what
makes the greats of golf so great, Reilly combines a wicked wit with an expert’s eye in a most original and entertaining look at golf.

Who’s Your Caddy? is the next best thing to a great round of golf. It is sure to delight low-handicappers, high-handicappers, and everyone in between.


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A Fine and Pleasant Misery/Cassettes

Patrick F. McManus

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Typical Pat McManus 5 out of 5 stars.
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Even though this was McManus' first book of humor, it may have been his best. No they are all great, but "A Fine and Pleasant Misery" is close to the top. Stories about 'the modified stationary panic', 'Grogan's war surplus store', and 'shooting the chick-a-nout narrows will keep you rolling on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. McManus has a special way of leading you up to (what you think is the punch line), but then plunging deeper into an even funnier event of the story.

Some of the funniest outdoor yarns ever written 5 out of 5 stars.
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A fine and pleasant misery is a collection of twenty eight of Pat McManus's early humor articles, most or all of which were written when he was writing for Field and Stream. He now writes for Outdoor life and when I receive my monthly issue of this publication in the mail the first place I always turn is to "The Last Laugh," but I still feel that the best of his stories were these earlier ones.

Some of the tales contained in this book such as The Modified Stationary Panic and Shooting the Chick-a-nout Narrows I have read ten times and laughed aloud each time. The way McManus relates to outdoor situations in his exaggerated manner will touch the funny bone of anyone who has ever spent time outdoors, hunting, fishing, camping or simply recalling their misadventures in the ignorance of youth.

McManus is a master at turning frightening and potentially dangerous situations into some of the funniest and most timeless stories ever written. In my opinion Patrick F. McManus is the best outdoor humor writer since Corey Ford.

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A selection of McManus's contributions to Field and Stream offers zany observations on the hapless victims of camping, fishing, hunting, and hiking. Book available.