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Summary: Swell
Review: An excellent read if you're interested in parody. If you're interested in reading about genuinely stupid things people have done over the years, you might want to check out Collective Behavior by Locher (2002). It's nearly as funny and all too real. The Y2K chapter alone had me howling, and I accidentally learned something, too.
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Summary: Hysterical!
Review: I laughed so hard there were tears streaming down my cheeks. One of the funniest books ever.
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Summary: Don't Wait To Place This Book On Your Christmas Wish List!
Review: If you liked "Non Campus Mentis", you'll love "Sense and Nonsensibility"!
George and Douglas have done an outstanding job in skewering the notorious bombast and pretentious delusions of present-day academia. This book reminds me of the also recently published "The Rape of the Masters", which does to pompous and politically correct art critics what George and Douglas do to flummery-spouting academics.
This is the perfect gift for the college students in your life, who even as we speak (anyway, as I write and you read) are, through no fault of their own, preparing to enter the supposedly hallowed halls of our nation's institutes of higher learning (HA!). After all, forewarned is forearmed.
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Summary: tour de force
Review: Strange as it may sound, this book's index is the funniest thing I've read in years. (Funnier and far less tedious than David Foster Wallace's footnotes!)
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: This book made me laugh and laugh. I enjoyed it from the opening pages until the end. It helped me to loosen up. I liked the sense of humour in the book and the fact that it is so witty. Just like another hilarious book I just read-THE USURPER AND OTHER STORIES, this is a book to make you unwind. I recommend Ward N0 6 and other stories, The Usurper and other stories by Janvier Tisi
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Summary: Funny and Entertaining
Review: This book made me to laugh and laugh. I enjoyed it from the opening pages until the end. It helped me to loosen up. I liked the sense of humour in the book and the fact that it is so witty. Just like another hilarious book I just read,'THE USURPER AND OTHER STORIES',this is a book to make you unwind
Also recommended: The usurper and other stories, A quiver full of arrows, Collected tales of Nikolai of Gogol
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Summary: Amherst College professors mock academia
Review: This is a great collaborative work by two tenured Amherst professors. The book is a collection of humorous essays that were written for various magazines. They are Dave Barry-esque, but more intellectual, mocking academia and literature. Some gems; 'How to be a great professor' and 'Summer camp for professors'. A wonderful Christmas gift for a favorite Amherst College Student or graduate student in your family.
If you can, go to a reading by these authors. The essays are even funnier when read out loud by these authors. Sometimes one will be so amused by their own writing that the other will need to step in and finish reading.
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Summary: Superb Reading!!!
Review: This is an exceptional book. It is erudite, witty and sharp, and presents the truth with delightful humor. This book should be on everybody's reading list!!!
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Summary: Tops!
Review: Truly a splendid book. The authors have a wonderfully playful sense of humor, and manage to be funny and winning despite the considerable delight they evidently take in portraying themselves as quarreling, slightly mischievous "bad boys" of the academy. The book is sharp and inventive, and frequently causes involuntary smiles to form at the corners of one's mouth. Highly recommended!
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