Rating: 
Summary: Starts off good, means well, but falters
Review: Several weeks ago, I created a list for Amazon on the best and worst of Michael Moore. He's done some great work and I agree with him most of the time, but this book is just poorly written. Moore starts off by raising some excellent points with a great critique of W.'s administration. What ruined the book for me was when he started reminding men to lift up the toilet seats and not use the bar of soap to get themselves "extra clean." Those lines are for second-rate comics, not social commentators with Moore's great satirical skills. The shame of it is that Moore has done some excellent work - "The Awful Truth," "TV Nation," "Roger and Me," and (up until the end when he sells out his thesis for good cinema) "Bowling for Columbine." His lesser work, however, makes it harder to defend him when arguing with his detractors. It also makes it look like he's cashing in (in some parts it seems as if he wrote "Stupid White Men" in about a week). Interestingly enough, as I was about to write this review, I came across this quote from the Dec. 30, 2003 issue of The Economist: By contrast, Mr Moore's satiric skills seem to have decreased in direct proportion to his fame: the wit of "Roger & Me", which skewered General Motors, has given way to "Woo Hoo! I Got Me a Tax Cut!" The corollary, which bears mentioning, is that his skills have decreased in direct proportion to the size of his target. When attacking corporations, his work was excellent. As he started taking on America at large, however, he has lost credibility. I feel he needs an editor; someone to rein him in and tell him when he needs more evidence or his thoughts just don't make sense. That being said, I haven't - and won't - read "Dude, Where's My Country." Most of the reviews I've read about it describe it as self-aggrandizing with bumper sticker solutions to America's problems. Based on "Stupid White Men," that doesn't surprise me. In sum, the beginning of this work is worth reading, but you could put it down after the first 50 pages or so and miss nothing. Much as conservatives will rip my review for saying that I agree with most of Moore's ideas, Moore fans will probably slam my review for not giving this book a glowing review. But I bet they realize his books fail to live up to his TV programs ad movies - especially this one.
Rating: 
Summary: Stupid White Man - Michael Moore
Review: I choked out a half smiling 'thanks dear' to my wife when I received this for christmas. As I greatly enjoyed 'Downsize This!', 'Roger and Me' and other select videos by him, my wife probably felt she was making a wise choice. Despite her abhorrent judgement in books, I still love her for other qualities. In 'Dude, Where's my Country?' Michael Moore takes out a big hose and just pumps excrement over all white men for all the problems in the country. No matter what attempts have been made to improve things or who is really at fault, it seems the whole planets' problems can be laid at the feet of caucasian males. Michael Moore makes no attempts whatsoever to discuss things in balanced or intellectual manner. He clearly believes that all good comes from the teat of the state and 'white men' have had no effect in improving things. Mr Moore is best when he is focused, as in 'Downsize This!'. 'Roger and Me' is also brilliant as social commentary, but it castigates the management of GM, not all people of one colour or sex. 'Dude - Where's my Country' doesn't approach this standard but is a poorly directed rant that would be better received at the comedy club.
Mr Moore's book is an obvious counterattack on Al Franken. Thus we have drivel being written on drivel. It should have been titled 'Dude - Where's my Brain?' He wasted a lot of reputation and personal capital on this book; this has a habit of being paid back when his next one doesn't sell.
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Summary: A mad bull in a china shop
Review: Since I am not American, I am writing this from a somewhat different perspective than the majority of rewievers here at Amazon. Let me first say I bought this book because I think a book on the subject "stupid white men" is needed indeed. Having read the introduction (from the 2002 edition) I couldn't wait to get started. So I started reading. Michael Moore was yelling. Then he was yelling. And yelling. And yelling. At some point in the prossess, an image came to my mind. It was the image of Michael Moore himself, standing there with wild, staring eyes, a trembling pointing finger, teethrattling, frowning and spitting out insults and hatered against the ultimate scum of the Earth and the source of all evil, THE WHITE MAN! Original and brave, you think? Nope. Moore's retorics are very much the same of what we saw and heard from radical feminists in the 1970's, when a group of women found out they could write as hateful and insulting as they wanted, as long as it was the MAN, and THE WHITE MAN in particular, who was their target. They didn't even run the risk of having to take responsibility for what they wrote. Michael Moore does the same thing 30 years later. The fact that he himself is a white man, even a fat and rich one, doesn't exactly qualify for genius. I can make a friend with someone who is rebelling against society. No problem. But I do want to know what kind of society HE or SHE represents. Michael Moore doesn't let us know that. Why not? Is it because the truth is so ugly, he knows it wouldn't bear the light of day? Maybe so. Or is he simply doing this for a living, cynically vomiting over a society and an economical system that makes himself increasingly rich? Maybe so. The more I think, the uglier it gets. Background material, facts, analyses, logical conclusions, Moore just skips it all, leaving it a text that is an insult to any intellect. I can't think of any group or individual that this book will help. If his aim is to make a better society, Moore is way, way out there, dead wrong with a book that rings completely hollow and ultimately is a total waste. No way can I trust Michael Moore or anything he writes. My honest advice is to avoid this book. Its autor doesn't deserve your money or your attention. For Pete's sake, read "Mein Kampf" instead, a book written by another angry and bitter white man. Adolf had at least a political vision, you can't say that about Michael Moore.
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Summary: Great for liberals, but not those farther to the left.
Review: Stupid White Men does give good information, but it seems like the target demographic is those people who want to be progressive but simply cannot stand being unpatriotic. Automatically this creates limitations of the nature of the books' content. For those people who first became progressive during the current Bush administration and think that the extent of America's problems are related to the war in Iraq and making deals with the Taliban in before the terrorist attacks of 9-11, there is the writing of Micheal Moore. But for those who want understand the long history of American military interventionism, the behavior of modern corperations, CIA corruption and drug dealing, and military acts which provoke terrorism from the Middle East, I would recommend writers like William Blum and Naomi Klein who are unbound by the burden of patriotism (Klein being Canadian), can speak the truth bluntly and have a vast knowledge of their subject matter. I give this book three stars because the it gives great information which is ordinarily not known to it's target demographic, but may not be for those whose knowledge of the American government's negative side spans beyond the administration of Bush and the events of the last decade which are known to the mainstream.
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Summary: Cheers!
Review: What can I say about Moore? More! More! More! The book is delighfully insightful and courageous. It's wonderful to see free speech refusing to be shut down.
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Summary: what a mess
Review: "these VWs are run by a computer system,
and if the computer hasn't read any activity
namely, you turning it on and driving it every
day or so-then the computer assumes the
battery is dead or something, and just shuts
down the whole car."
This is from the preface. Let us hope to God,
that Mr.Moore isn't this gullible or simple-minded
in real life. If he asserts this as true in the
preface, what are the chances of the rest of his information being any more factual? The absolute minimum that should be
required of any author, is that they at least pretend to check the accuracy of their information. This man has a very sloppy
method of data verification.
I agree with him on some points, but, please -at least try to
present data that isn't absurd.
Rating:
Summary: How i lost myself in wit
Review: It seems to me that there are an overwhelming number of books discussing politically oriented issues. As a teenager, sad as that sounds, such books accomplish stagnation in rather no time; they're just a recollection of facts and statistics backed by voices that compel extremity without regarding the public's entertainment. It's books like those that make amateur novelists look like Hemingway or Kerouac. Michael Moore, however, reaches an uncanny level of enticement by balancing witty remarks with agressively presented points with evidence to match. This book drug me in so much i spent almost every waking moment drinking chai tea with it by my side. "Stupid white men" guarantees the entertainment quality seen in Moore's documentaries, for it's equally as lively and intensely funny. It's a book that all those Bush-hating, depressed, so-called 'political punks' should read before speaking with anti-american government bollocks.
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Summary: Arrested Development
Review: Michael Moore is the carny-freak-show version of the Noam Chomsky act. Like Chomsky, Moore has gotten rich by peddling cynicism to the naive. Moore is so cynical he's cynical about cynicism: He has figured out that, in a postmodern culture, a large segment of the population so yearns for the pose of cynicism that it'll fall for any brand of nonsense. There's no one so naive as a wannabe cynic who longs to fall in line with the herd of iconoclasts parroting the Moore/Chomsky slogans - the intellectual equivalent of those teenagers who express their individuality by wearing exactly the same clothes as everyone else. This is a truly adolescent work of pure drivel. Read it as such. It cannot possibly be taken seriously.
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Summary: Argumentative, funny....and right!
Review: Well, I've finally been introduced to the world of Michael Moore.
A good friend of mine brought me this book for Christmas and I think I'm hooked.
Yes, it's very Americanised but it was mainly written for the domestic audience in the US.
Obviously, Mr.Moore writes from a certain perspective (one which, for the most part, I share) but he backs up his arguments with evidence, as all good journalists should.
To say he's not President Bush's biggest fan is a gross understatement and when you read about some of the things that took place at the 2000 election you can understand why.
Those of us that are on the centre-left of the political spectrum certainly hope that later this year a Democrat will be returned to the White House.
The thing that makes Michael Moore's writing so special is that he makes a powerful argument whilst being really funny.
I'd advise anyone interested in politics and/or current affairs to read this book.
I can't wait to read his other ones...three cheers for Michael Moore!!! Mathew Hulbert.
Writer.
Rating:
Summary: An interesting read
Review: I found this book to be quite entertaining. However, it's hard to tell what it is beyond that. Moore does an excellent job of pointing out the flaws of the American people, striking down everything from the 2000 election to our sad attempts at recycling. He states that there are more problems to this country'problems that have been around for many years'than just our current president. However, it is rather hard to take him seriously. Moore takes a very humorous approach to the issues (he has a section titled "How Men Can Avoid Extinction"), such that it is often easy to forget that he actually has facts to back up his points. I think it's interesting to see what he has to say, although I don't know how seriously this book should be taken. However, this book did make me aware of some of the issues that this country is faced with. Moore raises many issues that that make you think a little and they, if nothing else, make this book worthwhile to read.
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