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Summary: Pretty Funny
Review: A short, generally amusing, easy reading book making fun of America in a style similar to The Onion. It knocks us down for our excesses and cracks wise about our collective ignorance. This is an excellent guide for literate foreign visitors--it should be especially funny to them.
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Summary: Pretty Funny
Review: A short, generally amusing, easy reading book making fun of America in a style similar to The Onion. It knocks us down for our excesses and cracks wise about our collective ignorance. This is an excellent guide for literate foreign visitors--it should be especially funny to them.
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Summary: One nation, one book and poor paper, hold the cheese.
Review: Another (almost) winner from the folks at Modern Humorist. A very comprehensive guide to the bestest nation on earth and when you get to the last page to read `By the time you finish reading this page, 3.000 Americans will take a bullet, three million will super-size their Happy Meals and three will pass a geography test. Still, this nation is the envy of the world, except in Sweden, where government subsidies ensure all citizens have equal access to health care and erotica', perhaps you should book your ticket to Stockholm.Scattered through the pages are Travel Tips or Fun Facts side-panels, spoof covers of books, magazines, greeting cards and dozens of really slick illustrations. These neat drawings are unfortunately wasted because of the really poor paper the book is printed on. This was a real disappointment to me, with better paper the excellent graphics would have made the book complete. The MH earlier book `Rough Draft', in color and on glossy paper was stunning, this latest offering, good as it is, doesn't quite make it though. Sorry guys.
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Summary: Thin gruel
Review: This book would be perfect for serving fish and chips -- once you're done eating you can peer through the greasy pages for some post-lunch leavener. not much there -- these fellers have essentially been nuked by The Onion and their work is kind of "Onion for Dummies" -- something as necessary as owning a home yoghurt maker. Time for these lads to get some real jobs -- their "modern humor" has the distinct whiff of old hatband.
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Summary: Funny, but in three hours, you're hungry again
Review: You'll blitz through through this 141-page book in about two hours. It has some really funny stuff in there, written in a snarky Conan O'Brien-style fashion. The problem is, about three hours after finishing the book, I remembered very little of it. I think much of that has to do with the weak production value of the book. As noted elsewhere on this page, "One Nation..." is printed on about the worst paper imaginable, and the abysmal quality of the graphics defies description. If I were a writer of this book (it was a team effort), the final product would make me feel as if I were cheated. Still though, this is funny enough to pass along to a friend when you're finished.
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Summary: Funny, but in three hours, you're hungry again
Review: You'll blitz through through this 141-page book in about two hours. It has some really funny stuff in there, written in a snarky Conan O'Brien-style fashion. The problem is, about three hours after finishing the book, I remembered very little of it. I think much of that has to do with the weak production value of the book. As noted elsewhere on this page, "One Nation..." is printed on about the worst paper imaginable, and the abysmal quality of the graphics defies description. If I were a writer of this book (it was a team effort), the final product would make me feel as if I were cheated. Still though, this is funny enough to pass along to a friend when you're finished.
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