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Summary: THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT WORK OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Review: Praise Dobbs! If you're here, then you're only a 1-click away from eternal nlightenment. BUY THIS BOOK. NOW. And then stop reading forever.J.R. Dobbs has changed my life. I once was a pimply, incompetent geek, now I'm a self confident gigilo, taking the cash from the pinks. Praise Bob. Even if crude cults based on free-love and vulgarity aren't your thing BUY THIS BOOK. NOW. Which of Bob's teachings do I consider most profound ? "If I can't whup it, I will go down.". How zen. How....Bob. Or perhaps: "Bleeding head good, healed head bad." You be the judge. Be Bob. Become Bob. Slack off. Surf the Luckplane. Buy this book . Now. Your eternal soul and the future of mankind depnds on it.
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Summary: Praise "Bob" or give me food!
Review: The only thing standing between you, gentle reader, and the booze guzzlin', pill poppin', sleepin' 'till the crack o' noon life that you know you want is the sad fact that you haven't read this book! Arise! Step into the slack! Demand that Oprah make this her book-of-the-month. Wipe out your bain before it tries to wipe you out! "Bob" has delivered many fron the clutches of the "Pinks". Let him do the same for you.
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Summary: The ultimate cosmic truth lays at your fingertips
Review: The question has oft come up as to who is the greatest writer of all time. Shakespheare, Dickens, Joyce, Aristotle, the writers of the Dead Sea Scrolls? Those guys... couldn't write their way out of a WET PAPER BAG. This I have learned after reading The Book of the Subgenius; razor-sharp wit, profound insight, and social commentary that is the TRUEST THING YOU WILL EVER READ. We need to airdrop thousands of copies of this thing across the USA like CIA leaflets over an impoverished Nicaraguan town. At first I thought perhaps Thomas Pynchon, Robert Anton Wilson and Hunter S. Thompson collaborated on this book, until I realized - IT'S STILL TOO GOOD! And that's when the horrifying, apocalyptic, pipe-smoking, grinning chaos of truth hit me like a Mack truck - BOB IS REAL!!! There is no alternative explanation.
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Summary: Praise "Bob"
Review: This book didn't change my life a bit. I already knew that "they" were in control and that "they" held all the cards. The best reason to buy this book is that at least it doesn't lie to you like other books and tell you everything is going to be Ok. Besides "they" know that "they" will get your money somehow so you might as well have a funny book.
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Summary: bored
Review: This book is not offensive. It is not thought-stimulating. It is not interesting. It is not anything but boring. Maybe in its day, this was a shocking satire of organized religion, but today it just falls flat. It is a rough draft of the kind of funny satire we get every week on theonion.com. Did I miss something? Did the big joke go over my head? I'm not too stupid, but I guess I could have missed it completely. I just didn't find a single thing of substance or humor in the whole book.
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Summary: The single most important book you will ever read.
Review: This book will change your life. It is the most importantreligious document ever created. You would be an idiot notto purchase it RIGHT NOW! PLUS 10 COPIES FOR YOUR FRIENDS! DO IT!
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Summary: A one-of-a-kind satire (and replacement) of all Bad Things
Review: This is a book that makes you work hard for Enlightenment. Inside each and every foot-thick slab of insane bogus mythology and ludicruous self-promotion, there is a platinum nugget of genuine proto-Buddhist wisdom about life, effort, individuality and the road less taken in life. People who attempt to skim this book will take from it naught but confusion and a queer sort of disappointment at the forms insanity may take. But for people who have always wondered if he or she were alone in their desperation and frustration with how unbelievably awry "it" has all gone will be genuinely rewarded with a feeling that they were right all along. And isn't that what religion is really all about? - the Grand Claviste
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Summary: bored
Review: This was the first book I bought from Amazon, back around '96. I'd read and heard so much about SubGenius from friends and newsfroups that I felt I needed to see it for myself. I'd already read the Principia Discordia and loved it. Well, the Book of the SubGenius is no Principia. The Principia is basically a very simple, fun look at things through a specific Big Joke. SubGenius' Big Joke is complicated and uninteresting, making the rest of its observations much the same. I'm glad I picked it up and that I can catch a lot of slacky references, but unless you just want a grounding in SubGenius jargon, this book is a bit of a waste of time.
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Summary: overrated
Review: This was the first book I bought from Amazon, back around '96. I'd read and heard so much about SubGenius from friends and newsfroups that I felt I needed to see it for myself. I'd already read the Principia Discordia and loved it. Well, the Book of the SubGenius is no Principia. The Principia is basically a very simple, fun look at things through a specific Big Joke. SubGenius' Big Joke is complicated and uninteresting, making the rest of its observations much the same. I'm glad I picked it up and that I can catch a lot of slacky references, but unless you just want a grounding in SubGenius jargon, this book is a bit of a waste of time.
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Summary: Like a brother, or sister, or semi-competant cousin.
Review: Though I do not own a copy myself I have read through someone elses (I have no idea whose). I must say that Subgenius is like some sort of relative to Discordia (Hail Eris) and that great knowledge can be found within both this remarkable tome and the Principia Discordia. Feel free to read both, that your mind may be better opened or shut, whichever way you prefer... Fnord?
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