Rating:  Summary: Hilarious. Great graduation gift. Review: Just saw him speak this afternoon - what a funny, smart guy. This is a perfect graduation gift (I told you he was smart ;) or just get it for yourself as a good laugh.
Rating:  Summary: Very funny, as in "ha ha" funny Review: I don't know Al Franken personally, but I feel like I do. But more importantly, I feel like he knows me personally. His advice, as given in this book, is exactly the kind of advice I would give myself, if I knew myself personally. Excellent work, Al. Al...? He's busy doing something else. But never mind. This is a funny book.
Rating:  Summary: Franken At His Funniest Review: Al Franken has written another acerbic and hilarious book that's a must read for all who've grown tired of living in Dr. Phil's America.Every page is a testament to Franken's humor, intelligence and delight in the absurdities of our culture. And whether you thought Rush Limbaugh was indeed a big, fat idiot or a prophet of the modern age (albeit a deaf one), "Oh, The Things I Know" will simply make you laugh out loud.
Rating:  Summary: Franken Does It Again Review: My favorite Franken book yet - and I loved all the others. Al skewers the advice genre with wit, wisdom, and a profound sense of the absurd. Buy it for someone you love - and would love to see laugh.
Rating:  Summary: Great humor, great variety. Review: Franken set a high standard when "Rush Limbaugh" came out, but many were expecting a return to excellence with "Why Not Me?". I may have been disappointed then, but now Franken is back. He shows that not only can he do excellent (and occasionally mediocre) political satire, but he can add humor to the oversaturated advice-book fad that has been around for so long. At least this book will not be quite as politically divisive- I can instead look to the variety and quality of his humor spectrum to be a book I can return to often with pleasure.
Rating:  Summary: A golden shower of fun Review: One of the humor highlights of my adult life was listening to Al Franken's Rush Limbaugh Is a Big, Fat Idiot on tape. This book I read on paper, but it's just as funny -- and, which I didn't expect, has some semi-poignant, actually useful advice in it.
Rating:  Summary: Surprisingly funny Review: I thought this would turn out to be a fairly thin satire of the admittedly hideous Dr. Seuss feel-good book, but I was wrong. After flipping through it in the bookstore and laughing out loud a few times, I realized it was much funnier than that, so I had to buy it. Franken manages to skewer the entire advice-giving industry (and say some very funny things about Rush Limbaugh, that I think even Rush would find amusing) in a very fresh way. It's also, quite obviously, a great gift for recent graduates.
Rating:  Summary: Hilarious! Review: This book made me laugh at least five and a half times every page and a quarter, which is a remarkable achievement. It's a great read from front to back or in any other pattern of your own personal design. Truly a funny book!
Rating:  Summary: Another Franken Masterpiece Review: Al Franken has nearly trumped his other great works (Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, Why Not Me?, and I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!) with "Oh, the Things I Know." He has retrieved his crown as the greatest living political satirist. Beware: there isn't much of his terrific liberal humor in this book, but this book, like all of his others, kept me laughing. Always taking shots at himself, Franken offers hilarious insight into the quirks of life. I hope that everyone who reads this will read his book. While rather short, "Oh, the Things I Know" is filled with a wealth of Franken's knowledge.
Rating:  Summary: Belly Laughs In Every Paragraph! Review: This book is one of the funniest books I have ever read. Al Franken is hysterical...Every page had me laughing out loud! It is the best spoof on an advice book...as he calls it "A cradle to grave guide for the human existance". I just finished it this second, and want everyone I know to read it, because I want them to have that wonderful feeling of laughing their way through an entire book. Fabulous!!!!!
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