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Summary: Do not read while drinking milk.
Review: I'm always grateful for the chance to use a Random Obscure Word Not Normally Used in Everyday Conversation. Like "paroxysm" and "stentorian." That said, "The Book of Ratings" literally sent me into paroxysms of stentorian laughter. It should really come with a warning label--"Do Not Read While Drinking Milk or In a Public Place Unless You Want People to Stare Curiously At You." My favorite rating is in the Wizard of Oz Characters section--the Wicked Witch of the West: "If water were the one thing that could kill me, I certainly wouldn't go leaving big buckets of it around my evil castle. ... And yet the WWW seemed so surprised. 'Oh, gosh, I'm dying here. I don't suppose there's any way I could have forseen this? No, because I'm dumb.'"
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: If you are the right age and were subject to the right cultural influences growing up, this book will have you laughing out loud on every page. Even if you didn't, there is something here for everybody. Buy this book. The ratio of laughs to cost is very high!
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Summary: A+ Rating for The Book of Ratings
Review: If you are the right age and were subject to the right cultural influences growing up, this book will have you laughing out loud on every page. Even if you didn't, there is something here for everybody. Buy this book. The ratio of laughs to cost is very high!
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Summary: BUY NOW!!!
Review: Now, I'm a huge fan of the website, but I don't let that cloud my judgement. These ratings are hilarious. Plain and simple. Now a lot of you "simple minded" folk out there might not be interested due to Lore's advanced and half made up vocabulary, but to the rest of us it's a great book to pick up and read whenever we need a laugh. Even if you look at it in terms of the website, buy it anyway. It has plenty of new content and you can read it when your waiting to get your teeth drilled at the dentist's office. Overall I give it an A. It would get an A+, but it didn't have all of the ratings. Then it would be perfect.
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Summary: freaking funny
Review: Ok, I admit that I'm a fan of the website, but this book has new material and I also laughed even harder at the stuff I've already read off the site. I think it's because sometimes we skim websites and miss inside jokes. But a book you pay attention to every word and Lore puts off-beat references that have you laughing out loud (if you can catch them). It's wonderful to have it all bound in a book - I have already given away a copy to a friend who liked it too.
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Summary: Lore is a god. The end.
Review: Okay, maybe not the end, but let me tell you something. Here it is: If you have never read this book or gone to Brunching.com, you are seriously missing out. Of course some people might not like this book. Y'know like the ones who can't read and have trouble with the big words but if someone read it to them, then yes, a drink to nose connection would probably be made if they were drinking something. Which we will assume they were. Lore does use quite a bit of vocabulary and pop-culture references in his ratings but even if some of them go over your head you're bound to get most. There's even a rating for "References from the last rating" where he rates some of the more obscure or over the headish references he made in the previous rating. Bottom line: Buy this book. Immediately. That means now. Go. Now. (If you want to see if the book is for you go to Brunching.com and check out the ratings. It probably is.)
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Summary: A+
Review: The Brunching Shuttlecocks. An institution, a way of life... and they almost got me fired! Laughing that loud during work is frowned upon, apparently. Lore is hysterical! Buy it, you won't regret it. This is destined to be one of those books you annoy your friends with, by calling them to read passages aloud.
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Summary: A+
Review: The Brunching Shuttlecocks. An institution, a way of life... and they almost got me fired! Laughing that loud during work is frowned upon, apparently. Lore is hysterical! Buy it, you won't regret it. This is destined to be one of those books you annoy your friends with, by calling them to read passages aloud.
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Summary: A+
Review: This book is absolutely to die for. I have been following Lore's writing on the Brunching Shuttlecocks for a few years now, and although not all of these ratings are new, they're as witty as ever, a great conversation piece, and the new ones are funny as hell. I recommend this book to anyone with a sense of humor and an appreciation of sarcasm at its finest. Kudos to you, Lore, you deserve an A+.
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Summary: very funny!
Review: This was my Valentine's Day gift. My girlfriend tells me that I'm so opinionated about stuff that I could have written this book. She may be right. I think I can remember yelling "but Twinkies [are gross]!" while reading the book. Maybe I just thought it very loud. I've never been to the website that this guy rates stuff for, but Sjoberg rates everything under the sun (from the Seven Dwarfs, to food made by Hostess, to national sports, to....well, anything and everything). It's very interesting. The structure of the book is in two to three page segments, each one covering a topic. Sjoberg picks several aspects of the topic, give a brief rating of each, and then a letter grade (an example of this would be the Seven Dwarfs as a topic, and then each dwarf gets a short paragraph and the letter grade). The book is consistently amusing with some very funny one-liners tacked in there. I liked this book, it reminded me of high school where we would make all sorts of lists and put them in order of best to worst. This is a better written extension of that.
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