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Fractured Fairy Tales

A.J. Jacobs

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Total reviews: 15 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

Great Parodies of well known Fairy Tales 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 7 people found this review helpful.

I thought I've read every kinds of fairy tales rewrites out there, but boy I was wrong! I can't bring myself to put this book down after I started reading it. Unlike any usual "polite writing" of the fairy tales, I do not recommend parents to let their young children read it until they are teenagers or so, cause this book focus more on the comedy rather than focusing on the moral aspect of the original book.

A few parody stories from this book would be, the frog prince, Hansel & Gretel, The Golden Goose & Aladdin's lamp.

Um, Haha. 3 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Fractured Fairy Tales, by A.J. Jacobs, is a slightly offbeat, occasionally funny book of fairy tale parodies. I rate it three out of five stars because the tales are parodied, which makes the writing style inconsistent. Though the changes to the tales make them funnier, after a while they seem repetitive. These are the main reasons I dislike this book.

Though as a collection of stories, I dislike this book, a few of the remade tales are absolutely hilarious, like The Seven Chickens, where a prince finds seven chickens and must tell which chicken is a princess. Unfortunately, when he finds the princess he is disguised as a woman, and, well...you better find the rest out yourself. Another hilarious story is called Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, in which there is a prince born with a nose like a casaba melon. He will always have his weird nose until he says, "I have a nose like a casaba melon". Also making an appearance is a fairy godmother...with a New York accent? Funny stories like these, along with some funny changes to the some of the stories salvage my overall rating of the book.

Editorial Review:

Long before there were "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories", Americans were getting their giggles from "Fractured Fairy Tales", a regular feature on "Rocky and Bullwinkle" in the 1960s. Now, for the first time, these delightfully warped parables are available in read-aloud book form, illustrated with classic art from the show.

Apocalypse How: Turn the End-Times into the Best of Times!

Rob Kutner

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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People have been predicting the end of the world since...well, the beginning of it. Oh, the form it takes may vary--firestorm, earthquake, plague, new ice age, alien invasion, nuclear cloud, or the rise of our machines--but everyone who survives will be starting over at Square One. Your needs won't be that different from today's: food, shelter, work, finances, relationships, 24-hour cable.... But you'll have more raw materials to deal with. Apocalypse How is the humorous how-to-guide to living your best life possible (after the Apocalypse renders your current quality of life null and void.) Organized like a travel or lifestyle guide, the book tells you all you need to know in order to fend off zombies, forge for non-radioactive food, and make the most of your new dwelling (while ignoring the ash outline of its previous occupants on the far wall.)

This handy volume includes such essential sections as:

* What to Expect When We're Exploding
* Before We Blow: Your Essential To-Hoard List
* Should You Stay or Should You Flee? Questionnaire
* Sex, Love, and Dating: What if You Are the Last Man on Earth?
* The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Petty Tyrants
* The Apocalyptic Aptitude Test

Apocalypse How is guaranteed to be of use in the world to come. It also makes a handy defense weapon if thrown, and firestarter if needed.

The Cookie Sutra: An Ancient Treatise: that Love Shall Never Grow Stale. Nor Crumble.

Edward Jaye

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Cookie Sutra 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This book has really cute depictions of various Kama Sutra positions - a fun and entertaining read, my boyfriend and I loved it! The cookie recipe is good too.

Editorial Review:

Birds do it, bees do it. And guess what—cookies do it, too. In fact, never have a pair of gingerbread cookies looked so pleased. Yes, the Kama Sutra meets the Joy of Cooking. Featuring an unabashed gingerbread couple, who are photographed in unflinching full color, the Cookie Sutra is a recipe for pleasure.

There is The First Posture, where two are yoked as one (yet the calorie count remains unchanged). The Pair of Tongs, allowing the woman to be open, free, sweet and crunchy. Pounding the Spot, requiring the suppleness of freshly rolled dough. There is Scissors, Autumn Dog, Tripod, The Wheelbarrow, The Snake Trap. And, for the advanced and adventurous, The Suspended Congress—great care must be taken lest the cookies crumble.

Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up

Dave Barry

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Total reviews: 23 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP
Dave Barry wouldn't lie--and here are the real life, laugh-out-loud stories from across America to prove it: a U.S. Supreme Court justice shares his remedy for preventing gas ("I had not realized that this was a matter of concern in the highest levels of government"); a newspaper headline in Ohio announces the combustibility of strawberry Pop-Tarts ("A story that can really help you gain a better understanding of how you can be killed by breakfast snack food"); a frightening fact that snakes have mastered the pipelines leading directly to your toilet--and they're not shy ("Many women might view this as a fair punishment for all the billions of times that guys have left the seat up").
Get up-close with Dave as he examines UFO thrillseekers and Elvis- worshippers, plays lead guitar with a horrifying rock band that includes Stephen King, and swears to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth...so God help you!
"BARRY IS AT HIS BEST."
--The Baltimore Sun
"HE ZAPS THE FUNNY BONE."
--The Cincinnati Post

How to Drive Like a Maniac (Self-Hurt)

Knock Knock

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

So true ... So hilarious! 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This book is so funny. It would probably be even funnier if it wasn't true that so many people drive crazy like this. Even though I live in Los Angeles, there were many things in the book that I've never even thought of. I'm a bad driver, but now I can be even worse!

Excellent Gift 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I really love this book and especially love giving it as a gift to new drivers.

Editorial Review:

We've all eaten their captivating dust from afar, wondering how they manage to smoke, chat on the phone, and change lanes all at the same time. Maniac drivers make it look so easy as they cut us off, but now, for the first time, their secrets are available to the rest of us. Whether you're a grandma or just plain sensible, you'll be driving offensively, honking your horn, and gunning it through late yellows in no time.

Learn how to:

*Choose the perfect maniac vehicle and customize it for maximum intimidation, vision blockage, and gas guzzling

*Cut across five lanes in just one block

*Get over your conscience and consideration of others

The Left-Handed Book

James T. deKay

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Left on! 5 out of 5 stars.
27 of 28 people found this review helpful.

James T. deKay's delightful book is a wonderful read for both left-handers and those who live with them. It contains amusing facts and anecdotes about the joys and troubles of living left-handedly in a right-handed world, with amusing illustrations on nearly every page. This is the perfect book for a smile or two, but it is far from substantial. Left-handers will love finding out just how unique - and wonderful - they are, and right-handers will enjoy the insight into a backwards world. James T. deKay has also written "The Natural Superiority of the Left-Hander", "The World's Greatest Left-Handers", and "Left-Handed Kids", if you are interested in further reading.

A must-have for left-handed kids and adults 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

I bought this book for my left-handed son when he was about 3. He enjoyed reading with me the interesting and humorous anecdotes and facts depicted in it. It is fully illustrated with great drawings on every page to make it easier for kids to follow. I passed the book around to my left-handed adult friends and every single one of them enjoyed it. There are relatively few left-handed books in the market. Though this is not a seriously scientific one, it is definitely worth having in support of the left-handed people in this world. My son is now 7 and he still enjoys reading it from time to time.

Editorial Review:

At last, a courageous expose of one of society's most neglected minority groups.

The Affected Provincial's Companion, Vol. I

Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy

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Total reviews: 17 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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A far more civilized, beautiful life now lies within the grasp of your trembling fingertips

Gentle reader: do you tire of the meager offerings set forth by our humdrum age? Do you seek to cultivate blooms of refinement and joy in your life’s garden? Lord Whimsy, as befitting his office as “Affected Provincial”, humbly offers himself as a guide to those who wish to transcend the banalities of modern existence. A diverse and hilarious collection of treatises, insightful essays, philosophical diagrams, saucy poetry and other amusing trifles, The Affected Provincial's Companion will inspire you to transform yourself into a living work of art, thus setting you upon a course towards that misty, faraway shore known to the ancients as Enchantment.

The perils of sportswear, self-defense for sissies, the proper grooming of facial hair, and how to become a bon vivant—all this and much more may be found between the shimmering covers of this sleek and utterly beguiling volume.

The Joys of Engrish

Steve Caires

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Total reviews: 19 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

This is a good one-time read.... 3 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This very small sized book (smaller than I had thought), was a funny read once but that's about it. Maybe I'll pick it up again in 2 years and find it amusing again. Great tiny coffee-table-type book to amuse guests that come by, but I wish I hadn't spent the money on it.

Editorial Review:

Welcome to the world of Engrish-an alternate- reality version of the English language, which finds its greatest expression in Japanese advertising and product design. Based on the popular website Engrish.com, The Joys of Engrish is a full-color parade of images that highlight the most outrageous and riotous-yet oddly insightful-misuses of English.

Compiler Steve Caires created Engrish.com, which showcases the finest examples of the art, and has now become one of the most popular entertainment sites on the Web. What started out with a cult following is now a worldwide phenomenon generating Web traffic of five to six million visitors a year (and rising), plus a hugely successful line of merchandise.

As an Engrishman himself might say of the book, "Please make sure to enjoy your pleasant with vigor!"

Young Dick Cheney: Great American

Bruce Kluger, David Slavin

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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A wickedly funny faux-children's biography recounts Young Dick Cheney’s youthful lust for guns, oil, and the girl of his dreams.

He was born among the big skies and cow pies of the Great American West. And yet from these humble beginnings, he would grow to become the most famous, most powerful Dick ever to inhabit the Vice Presidency. In this often shocking, frequently touching, clearly unauthorized biography, faux journalists Bruce Kluger and David Slavin (National Public Radio) reveal the inspiring and sometimes even true story of Richard B. Cheney—frontiersman, freedom fighter, fatty. Meticulously reported (including a footnote!) and lushly illustrated by renegade artist Tim Foley, this unprecedented, spell-checked triumph of painstaking conjecture brings to life the Dick nobody knows: a secretive yet sensitive boy from Wyoming with a shoot-from-the-hip, shoot-in-the-face style all his own. From his mischievous boyhood friendships, to his high-octane high school romance with the one girl who knew what made Dick tick, Young Dick Cheney: Great American is destined to be cherished by patriots and Democrats alike—a book that will captivate readers everywhere for months to come.

Lost Deep Thoughts: Don't Fight the Deepness

Jack Handey

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

As the title suggests, this is the "leftovers"... 3 out of 5 stars.
11 of 11 people found this review helpful.

Jack Handey got a lot of mileage out of his "Deep Thoughts" series, but I think the word "rejected" would be more fitting than "lost" for this fourth volume. I don't want to suggest that it's bad by any means, but it's definitely the most hit-and-miss of the series. Some of the passages are classic Jack Handey ("Toward the end of the Stone Age, I bet there was already a feeling that metal was just around the corner."), but many of them are downright lame ("Life is a constant battle between the heart and the brain. But guess who wins. The skeleton."). If you've got the other three volumes, this one is absolutely essential, but if you're a newbie, don't start here. Pick up "Deep Thoughts", "Deeper Thoughts", and "Deepest Thoughts".

Editorial Review:

The latest installment in "Deep Thoughts" series unearths more of the pseudo-inspirational material that "Saturday Night Live" viewers have grown to love. Illustrated with aptly corny nature photographs, "The Lost Deep Thoughts" takes a profound plunge into the world of Handey's life-altering aphorisms. 96 photos.