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Summary: on the 8th day, God created The Onion...
Review: ...and it was good. LOS ANGELES (AP)- In an uncharacteristic move, elementary school principal Bob Wilson purchased Our Dumb Century last week at an undisclosed Los Angeles corporate bookstore. Sources close to this man say he laughed, cried, laughed & cried, then laughed again. "I loved it. it was better than Cats. I plan to read it again and again," said Mr. Wilson from his West Hollywood Condominium. Bob Wilson regrets he didn't purchase the book from Amazon.com, as the price was slightly cheaper and he wouldn't have been charged tax, but he offers this advice to all prospective buyers. "Buy it Now."
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: The Onion is a welcome addition to the American collective conscious. Veritably always brilliant and biting, The Onion illuminates the stupidities of our time (such as "A reader from America, June 22, 1999", who in his critique of The Onion's literary style, misspelled "their") with piercing wit. If only more followed their courageous example in the campaign to "Just Say No" to moronic behavior!
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Summary: This has got to be one of the funniest books I've ever read!
Review: If you're interested in history, this is a great book. The headlines are outrageous, but oh so appropriate. It's a "must have" if you love humor.
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Summary: A Paragon of Idealistic Irreverent Humor
Review: I First got my hands on a dozon copies of "The Onion" That a friend of mine brought over form Wisconsin, Needless to Say I laughed my ass of and became hopelessly addicted instantly. The Unique style of humor is great for both the intelligent and easily amused alike. This Book is what your History book would be like if it were blunt and funny. I learned as much as i laughed from it. This is definatly one of my top 5 favorites...its a masterful work of Comedic Art. Enough said. Go buy it and laugh yourself into a coma.
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Summary: I hope some of these people are joking
Review: This is by far one of my favorte books. I really hope but know that some people take themselves way too seriously to think that this is a history book . It's a joke people it is satire. If one can't look back and laugh at the crap our country has been through then that peron just doesn't get it. Leave the real(haha) history books in the classroom. We all know that those are full of the true facts.(yea I belive that one myself. hehe)People don't get it that he/she who wins the war writes the history books. Just read The Onion and enjoy it for what it is, a way to make a bad day a little more fun.
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: My brother and I spent over an hour one night constantly laughing as we read only the headlines. Each time we turned the page we laughed even harder until we were told to shut up by people trying to sleep. "Nixon and Agnew believed to be headed to Mexico in blue '71 Dodge Dart" is priceless.
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Summary: HILARIOUS!
Review: Reminds me of National Lampoon in the 70s. I ignored this book for too long. I saw it many times in bookstores, but thought it was a collection of 'headline bloopers' or something ridiculous like that. What a surprise when I finally picked it up and read it. I immediately bought two copies--one for me, one for a birthday present for a friend. I plan on buying more as gifts for people whose sense of humor I respect. I laughed my head off reading some of the headlines and articles. My favorite is the discovery of Einstein's "Theory of Sale-a-tivity"; my husband, a cynical man in sales, is planning on distributing copies of it to everyone in his department. Next favorites: Jesse Helms' graphic praise of the works of Robert Mapplethorpe and the announcement that Scott Baio's wretched 1982 waste-of-celluloid "Zapped" had swept the Academy Awards. Demented fun.
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Summary: An oasis for the rest of your sentient mind
Review: The part of me that knows that there has got to be more people in the world who feel more than one thing when they read a well manicured news story is experiencing an embarrassment of neuveau riche haughtiness after indulging in the Onion for many weeks now. I feel like a woman who thought she was frigid till she met the man who could pummel her g-spot into riotous perpetual orgasm at will (this is a man writing this review nonetheless). The Onion hits so many spots, incorporating the religious with the political with the crass with the virtually forgotten with the overly present with the subtle with the obscure etc. To the editors' and writers' credit, it appears that there are many contributors from many walks of life and many ages, but I don't believe that's the case. It is more the testament of multifarous minds at work.
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Summary: I have never seen satire so well-executed, so flawless
Review: I found this book so damn funny I want to share it with everyone I meet. Almost every article is hilarious and historically attentive at the same time--I don't know how many writers were involved on this project, but they all hit grand slams in each era. It was also refreshingly tough on the right-wing and American sexual anxieties. The article explaining how scientists in the mid-seventies discover the female orgasm was great! Those who find some material offensive are most likely the targets of this satire.
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Summary: Drop everything and buy this book
Review: Scores higher points for veracity that many of our most cherished rags ever will...and imperishable delight...the best.
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