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Summary: A great addition to lovers of Mad Magazine
Review: Anyone who has been following Mad, will really enjoy this book. It is a bit difficult to read like a novel. But, you keep coming back to it and each section keeps you smiling away.
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Summary: This was a very funny novel.
Review: I enjoyed this book very much. IT told about all the things all of us grown ups really did in this book like Lsd and all those other drugs we injected into our bodies
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Summary: Humorous Summary Of The Decade
Review: This book, which is a collection of things compiled from Mad Magazine, is funny summary of the decade. Mad About The 60's covers many of the most popular movies and tv shows from the 60's with their usual style of parody. This book also features many of the funniest cartoons that would appear monthly in the magazine such as Dave Berg, Don Martin, ect. Many of the featured elements of this book have a lot to do with the attitude, politics, and lifestyle of the 60's. For a Mad Magazine fan this book is a nice buy.
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Summary: Humorous Summary Of The Decade
Review: This book, which is a collection of things compiled from Mad Magazine, is funny summary of the decade. Mad About The 60's covers many of the most popular movies and tv shows from the 60's with their usual style of parody. This book also features many of the funniest cartoons that would appear monthly in the magazine such as Dave Berg, Don Martin, ect. Many of the featured elements of this book have a lot to do with the attitude, politics, and lifestyle of the 60's. For a Mad Magazine fan this book is a nice buy.
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Summary: This is an OK book.
Review: What can one say about mad magazine? I've been reading for a long time. Even though I wasn't alive in the sixties, this book portrays them fairly well. Aside from Mad About The Seventies, this currently tops the Mad Magazine Humor list. With parodies of Gilbert and Sullivan, My Fair Lady,and Lawerence of arabia, this is a must read. My favriote section was in the late sixties. Overall, Superb.
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Summary: What the usual gang of idiots were up to during the Sixties
Review: What on earth ever made me think that "Mad" magazine was for kids? That might have been true when I it was rite of passage reading by the end of this decade, but it sure was not the case early on. For example, we are offered "A Day with J-F-K" (written by Larry Siegel and drawn by Mort Drucker) in which the President and everyone else launch into songs, all of which are sung to tunes by Gilbert & Sullivan. Now, even during the early years of the Sixties, how many "kids" knew just the tunes for "I Am the Captain of the Pinafore"? Sheesh, I STILL do not know that one, probably because my introduction to Gilbert & Sullivan came from Allen Sherman and Tom Lehrer, who were doing their own parodies. Anyhow, in "Mad About the Sixties: The Best of the Decade" as presented by "the usual gang of idiots," we have movie takeoffs on "201 Min. of a Space Idiocy," "East Side Story," and "Flawrence of Arabia" (which I actually remember reading the first time around) and TV satires including "Star Bleech," "Bananaz," "The Man from A.U.N.T.I.E.," "The Phewgitive," "Lizzie," and "Hokum's Heroes." That last one definitely shows Mad at its boldest as the suggestion is to replace their satricial version of "Hogan's Heroes" (a television sit com set in a German P.O.W. camp during World War II) with a similar fun show set in the Buchenwald concentration camp. That is pretty good for no-holds bared satirical humor. Add to the above classic examples of Spy vs. Spy, Sergio Aragones and his Mad Marginals, The Lighter Side, Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions, Scenes We'd Like to see, Don Martin, Mad-ison Avenue Ad Parodies, Mad Fold-Ins, and dozens of covers featuring Alfred E. Newman in all his glory. I checked out several of these "Mad" collections with regards to my Popular Culture class and if there is a better reminder of what was hot during a particular decade then I have yet to stumble across it in my "research." I especially liked the examples from the first part of this book, which looks at the Kennedy years. For most of us the assassination and the funeral pretty much overwhelm all other memories except for those exciting international crises like the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis. But "Mad" reminds us that once upon a time Kennedy was savagely lampooned just like all other presidents. So whether this particular collection is a walk down memory lane for you or an introduction to what "Mad" was up to years before your were born, if you have an appetite for serious social satire (especially when the subject is the Sixties, one of the most fun decades in American history), then check this one out.
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Summary: What the usual gang of idiots were up to during the Sixties
Review: What on earth ever made me think that "Mad" magazine was for kids? That might have been true when I it was rite of passage reading by the end of this decade, but it sure was not the case early on. For example, we are offered "A Day with J-F-K" (written by Larry Siegel and drawn by Mort Drucker) in which the President and everyone else launch into songs, all of which are sung to tunes by Gilbert & Sullivan. Now, even during the early years of the Sixties, how many "kids" knew just the tunes for "I Am the Captain of the Pinafore"? Sheesh, I STILL do not know that one, probably because my introduction to Gilbert & Sullivan came from Allen Sherman and Tom Lehrer, who were doing their own parodies. Anyhow, in "Mad About the Sixties: The Best of the Decade" as presented by "the usual gang of idiots," we have movie takeoffs on "201 Min. of a Space Idiocy," "East Side Story," and "Flawrence of Arabia" (which I actually remember reading the first time around) and TV satires including "Star Bleech," "Bananaz," "The Man from A.U.N.T.I.E.," "The Phewgitive," "Lizzie," and "Hokum's Heroes." That last one definitely shows Mad at its boldest as the suggestion is to replace their satricial version of "Hogan's Heroes" (a television sit com set in a German P.O.W. camp during World War II) with a similar fun show set in the Buchenwald concentration camp. That is pretty good for no-holds bared satirical humor. Add to the above classic examples of Spy vs. Spy, Sergio Aragones and his Mad Marginals, The Lighter Side, Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions, Scenes We'd Like to see, Don Martin, Mad-ison Avenue Ad Parodies, Mad Fold-Ins, and dozens of covers featuring Alfred E. Newman in all his glory. I checked out several of these "Mad" collections with regards to my Popular Culture class and if there is a better reminder of what was hot during a particular decade then I have yet to stumble across it in my "research." I especially liked the examples from the first part of this book, which looks at the Kennedy years. For most of us the assassination and the funeral pretty much overwhelm all other memories except for those exciting international crises like the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis. But "Mad" reminds us that once upon a time Kennedy was savagely lampooned just like all other presidents. So whether this particular collection is a walk down memory lane for you or an introduction to what "Mad" was up to years before your were born, if you have an appetite for serious social satire (especially when the subject is the Sixties, one of the most fun decades in American history), then check this one out.
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