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Miss America

Miss America

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Absolutely hysterical!
Review: After reading Private parts, I fully expected this book to be similiar as I'd never read it but instead, it's a very humorous account of Howards many funny life events with a full account of his staff and their many duties. We hear about such fasinating things as Fartman's antics to his political era which I'm sure will go down in history. I beginning to ask myself, "Is there anything this man CAN'T do?" Funny and entertaining. I fully recommend this book.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: American Psycho
Review: First off, I would like to state that I never read Private Parts by Stern, which I was told was a better book. I personally was disappointed in this book. After reading this book, I felt like he was just writing another book because Private Parts did so well. It had some parts that were funny, but for the most part, I felt like it was a book for Stern to insult everyone that he could in a book. I believe that Stern is one of the smartest men in radio, and that he does what he does very well. I am not part of that audience, and perhaps that is why this book did not appeal to me very much. After having read this book, I felt like I had gained nothing by reading it. It left me with no good feeling, and I really wasn't any more educated because of it. I was quite disappointed to say the least.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: What A Trip?
Review: Howard Stern is a card in a half.talk about knowing how to push the right buttons&talk madd smack he has it down pat.this book tripped me out from start to finish.The Michael Jackson part is a trip.i watch his show&i dig his honesty on folks that's what makes him so cool at times.Love Him or Loath Him you can't ignore his impact in the Media.he is a card in a half.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Even more foul than his Private Parts (and shorter)
Review: Howard Stern is an American icon. There is no denying it. I read every blasphemous page of Miss America. It made me feel belittled, sullied, and degraded; and I loved it. From his quest to become a gubernatorial rubber stamp for the death penalty in New York to his almost adulterous encounters with trolls posing as on-line goddesses to his pitiful enslavement to obsessive-compulsive dementia, I found this book to be enormously therapeutic in showing that Howard's life is even more pathetic than my own. While it may be yet another slap in the face to his long suffering wife, it is an important step in Stern's eventual monopoly of American popular culture. I would rank this book alongside Bocaccio's Decameron as the most significant dirty book to come along in the last thousand years.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: ...
Review: I don't read as much as many people, but I couldn't put this book down. My wife often had to tell me to stop laughing or leave the room! If you like Howard, you've gotta get this book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: More introspective than "Private Parts" but STILL FUNNY!
Review: I thought "Private Parts" was funnier, but this book is different--it is more introspective but still has many hilarious moments. The hysterical chapter on Stern's meeting with Michael Jackson is definitely worth the price of this book alone. He trashes Jackson thoroughly, asking the question no one dares to ask: "If you love children so much, where are the girls?" I kept reading this chapter over and over again. What I like about Howard Stern is that he is not afraid to tell the truth. He is not awed by celebrities and doesn't hesitate to shred them apart when they deserve it. He is great at exposing celebrity hypocrisy and hype. Another incredibly funny account is Stern's experience with cybersex and meeting his cybermates in person. The language is foul, vulgar and crude in this book, but if you can get beyond that, you'll realize what an incredibly brilliant and funny man Stern is. Even the way he uses typefaces in this book effectively conveys his feelings to the reader and makes what he says twice as funny. If you're offended by graphic language, I wouldn't recommend this book. But if you have a biting, satirical, twisted sense of humor, you'll enjoy this book immensely.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: More introspective than "Private Parts" but STILL FUNNY!
Review: I thought "Private Parts" was funnier, but this book is different--it is more introspective but still has many hilarious moments. The hysterical chapter on Stern's meeting with Michael Jackson is definitely worth the price of this book alone. He trashes Jackson thoroughly, asking the question no one dares to ask: "If you love children so much, where are the girls?" I kept reading this chapter over and over again. What I like about Howard Stern is that he is not afraid to tell the truth. He is not awed by celebrities and doesn't hesitate to shred them apart when they deserve it. He is great at exposing celebrity hypocrisy and hype. Another incredibly funny account is Stern's experience with cybersex and meeting his cybermates in person. The language is foul, vulgar and crude in this book, but if you can get beyond that, you'll realize what an incredibly brilliant and funny man Stern is. Even the way he uses typefaces in this book effectively conveys his feelings to the reader and makes what he says twice as funny. If you're offended by graphic language, I wouldn't recommend this book. But if you have a biting, satirical, twisted sense of humor, you'll enjoy this book immensely.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: I invented Miss America Robin.....
Review: In this book, you see how Howard (Hoo Hoo) invented Miss America, talk show radio, my life as a pathetic pussah, and how his daughters [...] are so hot. The book is very unoriginal just like the author. Syracuse is conquered! We always win in the end. I do not recomend this book.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Howard's back for more of the same?
Review: It would be far too easy to dismiss this book as "just more of the same from the author of Private Parts" because by and large it is just that. But if you do write off (no pun intended) Howard's second novel, then you will truly miss out on discovering the real Howard Stern.

What Howard does in Miss America that he did not in Private Parts, is take his time to think. In his second novel he does not seem in such a mad rush to blurt out every intimate detail of his existence and of those around him. This time we discover a slightly older and more thoughtful Howard Stern. Don't get me wrong he has not seen any error in his ways, nor does he intend to change them. But he does stop to consider why and it makes the whole reading experience far more enjoyable.

Howard has still not lost his rapier wit and it is still delivered with a sledgehammer. Nor has he lost his love of naked females and that is sort of reassuring, for if he were to change at this point, we would know he was a phoney.

In Miss America Howard does go back over some old territory, but this time gives us another perspective. For Example we see the World of Howard, from Robin's eyes and it is an eye opener. Howard also has fun exploring and analysing his friendship with Fred Norris and this all makes for great reading. But the fun really begins when he gives us full chapter and verse on how he totally destroys a rival DJ and it is then that book becomes (to use a cliché) a real page turner.

Miss America is not as funny as Private parts, but a more thoughtful and enjoyable read as once again we are get another look at the world through Howard's small and very dark glasses.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: The FCC should Ban this book
Review: It's next to the worse book I've read yet, "Private Parts," is the worse. My gosh, you'd think with all his money he could write something worth reading except about his ham life; this guy has got to figure out what a plot and theme is, there is none. And just run on sentences going nowhere. He must sell them to his followers, becasue there is nothing of interest in it just talking and talking and talking of the FCC, and how he did this and that, where ever he ends up, he does. It was not a disappointment in that, I figured it would be something along that order, especially after I read the dirty mouth garbage and seen the pictures in "Private Parts."


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