Rating: 
Summary: Not his best...but still great
Review: I really enjoyed the Rush book as well as "Why not me". There are a few recycled themes here, but all in all, a pretty good book.If you are a Franken fan, don't miss this one.
Rating: 
Summary: Not funny, not helpful
Review: Not worth the 2 hours it takes to read. It's about as important as an Al Franken spot on Letterman, an entertaining enough interview but well, that's free. This is far inferior to the Ben Stiller/Janeane Garafolo book of a similar vein. Methinks the dullest folks from Franken's generation who now also have kids and too-high budgets may like this drivel. Anyone could write this, it's water-cooler chit chat at it's worst.
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Summary: Making Fun of the Self-Help Craze
Review: To a certain extent, there are far too many books out there in which an author tries to tell us how to get the most out of life. Most of these self-help authors are hardly qualified to give advice as they are written by authors that know nothing about life (at least not life in the real world). Franken has written a parody of all these terrible books. Franken pokes fun at youth, middle age, and old age. His best jokes are related to sex and the woman you will marry versus the woman you want to marry. Perhaps his best jibes are at old age and comparing violent video games to the cultural impact of the Beatles. I enjoyed this book as a fan of Franken's, but would probably not advise reading it unless you are really in tune with his style of humor.
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Summary: Very funny!
Review: Al has done it again with a laugh-out-loud book on loads of everyday topics. I just wish it could have been longer.
Rating: 
Summary: Franken's Throwaway
Review: Al Franken is a very funny man. 'Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot' was an absolutely hilarious tome, and 'Why Not Me' was not far behind. Unfortunately, this new book, while entertaining overall, just doesn't pack in the laughs as much as his prior efforts. There are exceptions: the Chapter Summaries are almost uniformly funnier than the chapters themselves, and the section on Al's commencement speeches is side-splitting. I just hoped for a lot more from this master satirist.
Rating: 
Summary: Wait for the video
Review: I was disappointed in this book. Although I very much enjoyed Al Franken's "Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot", I found this book lacking in both humor and depth. It is clearly a half-hearted effort.
Rating:
Summary: Oh why did I spend Yen on this "book"
Review: Horrible. And I am a fan of Al Franken. This was nothing more than a stream of conciousness gone ary. Waste of paper, ink and my cash. Al come on, you have such amazing talents, this was not one of them
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Summary: oh the mistakes i make in a bookstore
Review: Al Franken is a funny guy, and I've enjoyed him on SNL back in those halcyon days. But-- This book is like a very prolonged standup routine, or one of his valedictorian addresses. It is mildly amusing, but NOT WORTH $$$--I couldn't help but think of all the trees that were chopped down to make the paper for this fluff-piece he admittedly
wrote on airplanes and I suppose while in the can. This is
one of those books that is fun to thumb through in a bookstore, but it joins the teeming mountain of fluff books
that litter every bookstore, books that you wonder how they
ever got published. It's mildly amusing, BUT NOT WORTH
PAYING FOR, BELIEVE ME! I have learned my lesson
and you will thank me, too.
Rating:
Summary: I'm glad I borrowed this at the library
Review: The title should be "Oh, the things you will read, but shouldn't have." This book is in the same league as Steve Martin's "Pure Drivel." There were a few passages that provided some insite into the workings of Al Franken's pysche, however they went away quickly and we were left with stories of his Enron investment's and subsequent need for fund raising activities, such as authoring books. If you love Al, borrow the book. If not, don't bother.
Rating:
Summary: Great book, very funny, but dull at times.
Review: This is an excellent book, Al Fraken it at it again with this very funny book. I wish it was a little longer than it is, I finished it in 2 days, for $20 I would like a little more to read. The only huge problem was the fact that this book got a little dull at times, but most of it was very funny. I highly recommend this book!
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