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Summary: Why am I not this funny?
Review: I've been running my own humor mag for a year now, and I must say, The Onion is ten times funnier than we are! Oh, the agony of being able to appreciate how damn hilarious they are without being able to reach it in The Shrubbery! Ak! So yeah, buy it.
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Summary: "Our Dumb Century" best Onion material yet
Review: The heartwarming novel "Our Dumb Century" is humourously incredible. I have been an avid Onion fan for a while, but Our Dumb Century is the best Onion material yet. From the headlines of "Gangsters Pass 18th Amendment" to "President feels nations pain, breasts" Our dumb Century covers the entire 20th century with both humor and chronological correctness. Even my hard nosed religion teacher got a laugh out of "To-Days' Lynchings" This is unquestionably the most humorous novel i have ever read and I guarantee that you will enjoy it too
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Summary: Bathroom reading at its best.
Review: Glorious series of "fake" headlines (and their accompanying articles) poke fun at everything and anything that has happened over the last 100 years. Especially funny are the WWII years and current decade, their prediction for January 1st, 2000 in particular. Only drawback is that the small print underneath the headlines (it actually looks like a newspaper's front page) is just TOO small, and at times difficult to read without a magnifying glass.
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Summary: The most laughs that $9 can buy
Review: I'm another reader from way back (1993), who has split his sides for years on the razor-sharp wit of the weekly issues. This book has already reduced me to tears several times, and left countless friends gasping for breath.What makes The Onion breathtaking is its willingness to puncture the simpleminded pieties of our status quo. No one anywhere on the political, economic or cultural spectrum is safe. NATO and PETA, Angelou and Gates, advertisers and hippies, cops and crackheads, Christians and Muslims, teens and retirees... all are fair game. But what makes it revolutionary is that in picking apart our national life, it lays bare just how conservative, close-minded, bigoted, and selfish our culture, politics, and national mythologies are. In a way that perhaps only parodies can, The Onion brings a brutal honesty to this review of the 20th century -- both more entertaining and illuminating than any that Peter Jennings, Time-Life or CNN will churn out.
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Summary: I learned so much!
Review: As a history teacher in a Lutheran school, I've been delighted with all of the books looking back at the 20th century. Most of them are very much the same though. This book had a lot of information that no one else had! I learned so much about history that even I never knew! Keep up the great work!
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Summary: Very funny and very brilliant
Review: This book is one of the funniest books I have ever read -- the humor is absolutely brilliant. It looks at the popular culture of our century through a fun-house mirror lens -- and the results are fantastic. It is completely irreverent and a work of genius. Buy this book!!!
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Summary: Hysterical!
Review: This book is a great translation of the equally funny weekly newspaper of the same name. The headlines are great, and the stories are just as insane. My favorite's include the issue devoted to Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon, and Betty Grable pitching in for the war effort. One of the funniest books I've ever read.
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Summary: Onion Writers Uncommonly Talented
Review: The writers at the Onion are certainly the most talented satirists to come along in a long time. But there are some book reviews in this section that are just so giddy and cute that I feel I will vomit. Yes yes, some of you "understand" the highly intelligent humor better the rest of the world. Good for you. Hopefully, the Onion does not spawn another generation of self-satisfied goof-balls who recite Onion articles out loud in the tv room of the college dorm while others are trying to watch the evening news - like the freaks who used to incessantly spew the "Monty Python" sketches all over campus back in the 80s.
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Summary: Will have you laughing well into the next millennium
Review: This book is great parody; satirical writing without being offensive, put-downish. The only writing more insightful than some of the headlines lies in the accompanying text. Great pains were taken in the details. A grand read!
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Summary: Instant classic! This Madtowner is glad to see nat'l expsr
Review: Plain and simply -- the writers of the Onion are geniuses. Far funnier than anything else out there today. I'm one of the original Madison snobs who has been reading the weekly Onion newspaper since my freshman year in college (1993)at UW-Madison. I'm especially snobby when I point out that my old roomate was once on the cover, that I remember when the Onion staff took the pictures of the original 6 "What Do You Think" people, and that my brother, a free-lance illustrator, tried to get a job at the Onion once -- "It was cool and all, but they are a bunch of disorganized weirdos" That being said, "Our Dumb Century" is a sick stroke of genius. The Century does it's best to make fun of the stupid, clueless people of the world (mostly white, rich males...). I receive equal amounts of joy when I showed parts of the book to people who DON'T get the book. They're the people "Century" is poking fun of in the first place. Great job Onion. As much as I want to continue keeping you as my own baby, I also want you to grow up so others can get the same sick-o feelings that I do.
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