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Although a bit dated, containing strips related to the Y2K craze here and there, this little book is still otherwise as funny and timely as any commentary on the computer industry could be. The X-Men and Borg references are absolutely hysterical. If you work in a tech job, you should be reading User Friendly.

It's a good book, but I think previous books have been funnier.

"Am thinkink. Erwin, to fight such big powerful company as AOL, am to be fightink fire with fire. Da?"
"Umm...what did you have in mind?"
"Am to becomink half computer, half human, like Borg. Then to become super administrator of all Borg functions."
"That means...you'll become..."
"Da. I will becomink root of all evil."
"Don't do it, Pitr! Don't go to the bad place!"
- Pitr the techie and Erwin the AI, in conversation

After opening with a few post-Y2K-bust strips, the Columbia Internet crew having stockpiled lots of soda and pork rinds for the occasion, the book settles into its more usual long-running plot threads.

Stef's been given the title "Manager: S&M." ("It stands for SALES AND MARKETING you depraved monkeys.") In his efforts to sell a line of products the same way that the Pokemon empire does their stuff, he persuades Pitr to make collectible Unix text editors. Pitr, in fact, goes through several evil little anti-Unix projects in the book to keep his hand in as a budding Evil Genius.

Other developments in the continuing story:
- AJ struggles to figure out how to court Miranda properly (badly timed in light of the "I love you" virus).
- Stef (who as a Windows user sees Unix holy wars as an added bonus of his job) makes the mistake of interfering in Miranda's life, which leads to a lot of Matrix crossover references.
- Mike becomes a Sims addict. ("Hey! Are you *allowed* to have four wives?")
- Greg's tech support calls turn into a game-help hotline.
- Pitr has an evil twin brother in Sales who affects the same fake accent.
- Introducing Sid Dabster, the aging ex-HP tech who becomes something of a blood enemy of Pitr's.

And, of course, the fantasy elements, such as:
- Parallels between Steve Case of AOL and Anakin Skywalker.
- Greg's Linux daemons (think "shoulder angel" here).

You have to be a computer geek to understand the humor. If you are, and especially if you have a unix/linux background and/or have worked with internet or other computer support you will find this one of the most hysterical comics around.

If you don't find at least some of the strips very funny, you should have your geek status removed. :)

rutkowski is hard edged and deeply moving, simultaneously. it's imposssible not to identify with the troubled young man he creates. He's also riotously funny.

I've known Thaddeus Rutkowski since he was bringing in early chapters of this novel to a writing workshop. They were powerful then, and put together as a novel, they make a short, sharp shock of a book.

The voice is especially strong, at first seeming like an expressionless monotone,the pressure builds through the arc of the book, until the tragedy and hilarity of the narrator's family takes on huge dimensions.

Also...if you ever get a chance to hear him read his own work, DEFINITELY go. He's a marvelous reader/speaker.

There are many bruises here, pain and little healing. At first I was curious about why this book obsessed with the darker side of family relationships, but I realized that this dark side was what the protagonist was forced to see in the light--grief is apparent, not concealed. These sound bytes of reality are like snippets of information, or severed knowledge. How true to life. Overall a challenging and difficult read, because of its subject matter. But rewarding.

"A man's home is his castle." Taken to heart--the wrong heart--the notion can lead to the most grotesque kind of tinpot tyranny, like the one dispassionately described in this brilliant novel of black humor. The narrator's father is a fascinatingly twisted s.o.b. who abuses his family in a myriad of ways. Depicting an apparently semirural lower middle class existence, the book thrives on bizarre convolutions: one of them is that Dad is an Artist. Another: Mom is Chinese. Dad is also a drunken gun-nut who torments his sons and molests his young daughter. The narrator grows up to be an artist, too, or at least an art student. He acts out his own compulsions in what by contrast seems like the much saner and socially acceptable outlet of mutually-consented s & m. A darkly comic masterpiece!

Rutkowski fondly recollects his boyhood days as a moving target for his father's tortured artist angst. In his past he uncovers horrors but also discovers a curious kind of redemption. This may well turn out to be a classic study of the birth of a conceptual artist.

I can only rate the service of the delivery and the accuracy of the description of the book. I haven't had a chance to read it yet.

The book arrived fast & in great shape. My nephew loves it! He loves it so much that he had to have the Scarne book on magic.

Many magicians own the Classic book "Scarne on Card Tricks." But it is said if you want to keep a trick a secret, put it in print! Most of what's in Scarne on Card Tricks is no doubt a complete mystery to most laymen--and many magicians! Its a great book for the card beginner.

On the other hand, there's a lot of boring and tedious count-down stuff in there as well.

The book is BIG--over 300 pages of carefully detailed effects. It can be a little overwhelming to someone the first time he picks it up. How do you separate the wheat from the chaff?

Best, in my view, are the tricks that can be done TOTALLY impromptu, with very little or no stacking, when a deck is shoved into your hands and somebody says "Do a trick!".

Here are some of the effects that I have judged to be best, based on the above criteria:

The Upside down Deck by Francis Carlyle
Hit the Deck
Scarne's Follow the Leader
Cardini's Color Discernment
Card on the Ceiling
Card through the Handkerchief

Of course, You Do as I Do is also a classic, though it is fairly well known among magicians.

In short, a little work digging out the best tricks will make you a true card magician in most people's eyes, with enough practice and performing experience.

John Scarne is today perhaps best remembered as a leading authority on gambling scams and card cheats. However, in his prime, he was one of the best magicians in America. In the late 40s, as stated in the Introduction, Scarne decided to gather for magicians a set of card tricks involving no sleight-of-hand. The result is "Scarne on Card Tricks". The 155 effects in the book range from quick tricks and puzzlers to more elaborate card demonstrations. All of the effects are attributed to either the originator of the effect or to a magician who used the effect frequently. The book clearly bears Scarne's unique genius not only in the selection and variety of effects, but in Scarne's improvements of the original effects. There is no doubt that anyone can put together a most entertaining routine with the material in this book. Two words of caution. First, the copyright of the book is 1950 and so some of the patter is clearly dated and needs to be revised for contemporary audiences. (Patter is the words or story that accompany the effect.) Second, because the effects are easy to do when practiced, there is a tendency to perform the effects before fully thought out. For every hour learning the basic effect itself, two hours should be spent on how to present it in an entertaining and interesting manner. The book itself, however, remains one of the very best in card magic. Scarne's work clearly stands the test of time. Frankly, the book is a steal at the published price. I bought two copies because I knew I'd wear one book out. I did. The book is that useful.

This is the definitive collection of non sleight-of-hand (you don't have to be quick with your hands) card tricks. I bought my first paperback copy in 1974 when I was still a schoolboy. Some of the tricks are easy but astounding, such that I've memorised two of them and have amazed my friends over the years until now. Since then, there hasn't been any other card trick manual that can beat this one, to the best of my knowledge.

There is very little Science Fiction on my reading shelf, and no hard SF, I just don't like the stuff. Enter Howard Taylor. Schlock Mercenary is one of the most consistently funny, superbly plotted, and well written webcomics out there. This collection is excellent and, with lots of value added art and a bonus story, well worth purchasing.

I heartily recommend it to anyone who likes a good story, well told.

Great read from one of my favourite webcomic authors. Nicely printed and lots of interesting bonus content.

Before I found Schlock Mercenary, I thought that all web comics were terrible. Schlock Mercenary opened my eyes to a new world of entertainment, and now I read webcomics every week.

Schlock Mercenary is my homepage.

This is the second Schlock Mercenary compilation, continuing the story started in Under New Management. It also carries on the quality set in the first book, the humor is consistent and it's an all around crowd pleaser.

Buy this book!

...you each throw away enough weapons you only have enough left to kill each other twice.

The artwork is better, the plotting tighter, the plotting in-story even backstabberier, and Sergeant Schlock gets to use his Plasgun to THOOM lots of stuff that...well..._mostly_ needed blown up.

With more twists than a fifties dance hall, lots of laughs and tactics that resolve to, "Shoot it," you'll find yourself quoting the Seven Rules Of Highly Effective Pirates to your friends. Especially Number 34.

Howard Tayler's series is one of the best there is. His setting is well-constructed and thought out enough to please the hard science-fiction fans, but is approachable and appeals to all readers. The plot, with its conspiracies, factions, and betrayals, is one that keeps you coming back for more, but Tayler makes you laugh a few panels later.

Hard sci-fi can be intimidating to some people, but Tayler's work is accessible, funny, and fun.

I was lucky enough to have met the author and her ultra-cool sons at a holiday party before I purchased her book. Trust me, she's as fascinating and charming in person as she is in her prose. The only complaint I have of the book is that it's too damned hard to put down. The book will make you realize that EVERYONE has a story to tell, and I doubt that anyone can tell it as well as Rene tells it! Excellent.

Despite the "one, two three strikes" approach to internet dating, this funny, entertaining book about the author's experiences with finding, (or not finding), love online reveals her sweet side, and is a serious and insightful look into both the advantages and dangers of the internet blind date. She is unfailingly kind to even the most absurd beau, even when moving on. It is a must read for everyone with a sense of humor and a love of adventure.

This book made me laugh out loud! I had so much fun reading it. I found myself rooting for Renee with each and every date. Each date is a new chapter so you can grab a quick read if you want, but I found it hard to put down. Men who are considering online dating might want to use some of her (not so) subtle hints :)

I've been Internet dating for a few years and still haven't found my 'best friend.'But I know he's out there and that is what keeps us all going. Some of her dates remind me of mine! Same story--different town! Now, everyone can get a first hand glimpse as to some of the characters that are out there. She has hit the nail on the head with her candid, straight-forward sense of humor and the stuggles with Internet dating. Everyone has a story--she put it in a book! This is a fast, fun read. I recommend this book to everyone who loves to laugh! Maggie

I loved this quick read! Some of Rene's dating experiences are laugh out loud funny, while others are more serious. The mix of both is perfect. My sister did the internet dating thing after being married for 25 years, then divorced. She found the man of her dreams on an internet dating site! I'm married with two teenage daughters and I want them to read this book. It'll show them what they can expect from dating and how to be strong and confident enough to know who is good for them and who can go jump in a lake!!! I highly recommend this book!

Judy Brown handed me this book at the annual Booksellers of America Convention when it first came out. I am not one to purchase joke books.

I began taking this book with me to waiting rooms, airports, the car dealership (waiting for service work), etc. I thought I'd check it out. I cannot tell you how many times I just burst out laughing in public. I have laughed and laughed and laughed. When I've tried to read some of these jokes to others I've laughed so hard while reading that tears were streaming down my face and I couldn't get the words out because I couldn't stop laughing.

Great therapy for anyone who is stressed out!!

Compiling all the best quotable comediennes and organizing them into categories can be hard work, but Judy Brown manages it yet again in She's So Funny. (Is that a pun on the Beatles' song "She's So Heavy?")

I laughed especially hard at this joke by Sheila Wenz: "I've always had pets. I know I should have a child someday, but I wonder, could I love something that doesn't crap in a box?"

Totie Fields, Phyllis Diller, Kate Clinton, Roseanne Barr, Margaret Cho, and Janeane Garafelo represent five generations of edgy and mainstream, hilarious and witty women. Even though women comediennes have been featured in other books, I like this one, along with Funny Women by Bill Adler.

If you are a woman who can appreciate some humor, of just someone who likes comedy, read She's So Funny.

I literally loudly laughed while in my doctor's office reading this! The jokes are from women comedians. The humor is some old-school (Phyllis Diller) but loads of contemporary (Ellen Degeneres). Bonus: there is a chapter called "Green Room," where there are mini biographies of all the comedians! Huge, heart two thumbs-up!

The book is hilarious! From the time I picked it I read it straight through cover to cover - non stop crack ups! I highly recommend it.

There's now a show featuring some of the lady's featured in the book at http://www.shessofunny.com. There's a lot of information there. I hope they make it a tour, a sort of Lilith for Comedy!

I love the variety of comediennes and topics in this book. It makes me laugh out loud in public places.

Shlepping the Exile is a most unusual coming of age novels, and here Wex shows the same virtuosity at weaving incongruous elements into one fabric as he did in Born To Kvetch. Shlepping is written with near manic intensity, but the foundation of Wex's ideas are solid, and the even when he goes off the rails, almost writing in an argot of Yiddish and English, the effect is enchanting and unreal. Most of all, Wex documents an obscure corner of the Diaspora, long gone, Western Canada, where the impossible seems almost possible: Yiddish rubbing elbows against a "frontier" western town.

Read this book! It is an absolute page-turner, hysterical, but still poignant. You don't need to be Jewish to "get" it, but it does help.

This is the type of book that once you pick it you can't put it down. And on top of that, you keep finding yourself reading it over and over again.

I read "Born to Kvetch" by the same author right before reading this book, and I think it helped. I'm not Jewish by heritage or upbringing, so a lot of the writing in "Shlepping the Exile" seemed like inside jokes that I didn't "get". However, there were a few passages sprinkled throughout the book that would be funny to most anyone.

Overall, I recommend "Shlepping the Exile" to people who are interested in Jewish culture, grew up around Orthodox/Hassidic Jewish people, or are speakers/students of the Yiddish language.

Michael Wex is a gift to a world that takes itself far too seriously. I first read this book many years ago when it was privately offered by the author under the original title, "Shlepping the golus". I was afraid I might injure myself I laughed so hard.

As I wrote in another review ( Born to kvetch, CD version) the man is one of the creative geniuses of our time. I really don't care what he writes or records; I'll buy and enjoy it.

What most people don't know is that behind all of the self deprecating, Rabelaisian wit and hysterical humor is a true scholar. The man is multi-talented and an absolute one of a kind. He has multiple graduate degrees, is a doctor of everything many times over, an expert in philology, medieval literature, popular culture and music, a rock musician, a stand up comedian and a real sweetheart.

This is an autobiography unlike any that I have ever read. My only regret is that I didn't write it.

This is a remarkable oportunity to rediscover the work of the underestimate John Buscema. Great storylines , in a luxous volume.But I missed more Jack kirby works with the surfer

I haven't read a Surfer story since I was a kid... I loved this book! I read it in one sitting (rainy Sunday afternoon) and was transported back to 1968...still a "carefree kid". The stories have held up well and managed to hold my interest. I you read comics as a kid, or still read them, I would recommend this book...Enjoy!

This book contains the first 18 issues and Bonus material of the Silver Surfer written by Stan Lee. While the modern Silver Surfer is sometimes a bad character in these first issues he is something like a saint and he is suffering human prejudice but never giving up to help. He examines the human race in order to understand human behaviour. The Silver Surfer therefore is not a character you can easily identify with but the moral and message of the stories and the way the Surfer views the humans is absolutely interesting and very thrilling. Issue 1-17 was drawn by John Buscema. I know his work on the Avengers which is great but these Silver Surfer stories are by far his best work. Buying this book means buying the very best of John Buscema. In addition the printing quality is superb and the book is oversized.

I ordered this from amazon several months ago. About one month ago they informed me it would not ship until some time in 2008. I am not sure why they are still selling it if they are having that much trouble shipping it out. Just go get one from your local comic book shop. It's worth it.

This huge book reprints all 18 issues of the original Silver Surfer comic book series from the Silver Age of comics (including the letter pages), plus a Surfer back up story from Fantastic Four Annual #5 and a Surfer parody from Not Brand Echh #13. The Silver Surfer happens to be writer Stan Lee's personal favorite character. To quote Stan from the book's intro: "Perhaps the Silver Surfer comes closest to being the ultimate, quintessential superhero. The virtue of his character, the purity of his soul and the nobility of his actions, coupled with the altruism of his motives, are virtually without parallel--unless one returns to the root of all goodness, for perhaps only in the Holy Bible itself does such morality exist." Stan used the Surfer to articulate his own beliefs and convictions, as the Surfer soared around the Earth soliloquizing about mankind's faults (particularly prejudice and bigotry). Pretty heavy stuff for a superhero comic book. The Surfer was a tragic figure, as he regularly faced fear and hatred wherever he went, despite the purity of his motives. Another tragic aspect of the comic was the forced separation of the Surfer and his ladylove, Shalla Bal, who still lived on their home planet of Zenn-La. But I don't want to give the impression that this comic book is all talk and no action. There is plenty of action, as the Surfer battles villains like the Stranger, the Abomination and his archenemy Mephisto. Through the typical Marvel Comics misunderstanding, he also battles heroes like Thor, Spider-Man and the Human Torch. All this is beautifully illustrated by John Buscema, with the exception of the last issue, which was drawn by Jack Kirby. This review ran longer than I intended, so I will wrap it up by recommending this book to all fans of Marvel Comics.

I laughed `til I cried. Then I laughed some more. This good ole gal doesn't stop. She takes on anything and everything in the South where dog-eared expressions are as natural as eating grits. Nothing is spared: Southern traditions, getting older, the station wagon which lasted longer then the husband. Put a pitcher of martinis in the frig and learn how she cooked breakfast for the husband while she was in bed with a stomach virus, why she cannot bear to look at a red velvet cake and how she had to sneak into the cemetery at night to bury the dog between Grandma and Grandpa.

Rearick is not someone whose eggs were loosely scrambled even though she has relatives who are diagonally parked in a parallel universe. She writes about some of the but-ugliest things in the world...things we love about the South.

If you have ever had a dog (she has a spoiled-rotten Cockapoo), a husband (she calls hers "Babe"), a mother (hers made fruitcake and talked in clichés) or grandchildren from hell, then you will understand the source of her stories.

Meet unforgettable characters like Gloryjean the Butterbean Queen and come to understand that if God wanted us to run around barefooted, we would have been born barefooted.

Not everything Rearick writes will tickle your funny bone. She can also be as serious as a brain transplant. Following an accident which nearly took her life, she wrote, "It's the top of the fifth. The bases are loaded. It's my turn at bat. My turn to hit a homer and to break records."

With Simply Southern, Rearick has hit her homer. I can hardly wait for her next book.

Don't forget to honk if you love peace and quiet.

Whether you live on the east or west coast of America, in between, or across the waters on another continent, this book will make you laugh --and laugh -- and laugh. Cappy Hall Rearick writes about what she understands--people. She likes us, loves us, laughs with us and cries with us, but mostly makes us laugh. As any writer or performer will tell you, comedy is the most difficult of arts and skills. Cappy Hall Rearick's first hand knowledge of Southerners makes her stories ring with authenticity and her love of her characters fills those stories with lots of fun and a subtle compassion.
There is a universality in her humor and a power to connect us through her own experiences with the most common human conditions. When you read about her Mama, you will want to reach out and touch Cappy and you will never again try to clean out your mama's closet or straighten out her "stuff."
As you laugh your way through these tales, you will want to meet Cappy Hall Rearick.
Y'all read this book now, ya heah?

I'm a long-time friend of Cappy Hall Rearick, but I CAN be objective about her writing! Her collection of essays and short stories in Simply Southern have the distinct flavor of the low-country South, and the characters ring very true, from the hilarious to the serious. Among my personal favorites are "A Loaf of Bread and Thou" and "A World of Looking Down." Babe, the grandkids, and the fun-loving friends who populate this joyful book will bring readers many smiles, laugh-out-loud chuckles, and possibly a few misty eyes. It's a book to be savored not once, but many times. ENJOY!

Settle into your most comfortable chair with this delightful read and enjoy "Simply Southern," as Cappy Hall Rearick tickles your toes and tugs on your heart with her anecdotes of the South.

What a wonderful writer this lady is! Immerse yourself in glorious mini-tales such as "Gloryjean the Butterbean Queen" and "By Virtue of a Vidalia." You can see, hear, and nearly touch the characters she brings to life so beautifully.

In our hectic world, "Simply Southern" is an oasis of pure pleasure. I highly recommend it!

Simply Southern
by Cappy Hall Rearick

Reviewed by
Award-winning journalist and author,
Sharon Smith Henderson

Dyed-in-the-cottonpatch Southerner, Cappy Hall Rearick cut her baby teeth in South Carolina and grew up to become a card-carrying flight attendant. Winging her way west to LA-LA Land (Southern California) she began her career as a columnist, penning Alive and Well in Hollywood. A couple of
husbands later she migrated back to rest on the Golden Shores of St. Simons Island.

Along the way she has honed a biting sense of humor which spares no sacred cow. Simply Southern, appearing in Weekend, a local weekly tab noted for its irreverent take on the world, provides Rearick with a platform from which to launch her barbed commentary. Wryly capitalizing on her blondness, Rearick attacks the perils of middle age, marriage, shopping, pet ownership, (where the pets are the owners)and relationships.

Now in book form, Simply Southern is a diverting treasure which will delight the reader today, tomorrow, and still pop up new and fresh when it surfaces during a
shelf-cleaning exercise five years down the road. Among those falling victim to her caustic wit: Easy-going husband, Babe, his dumber-than-a-box-of-hair Cockapoo, Tallulah Blankhead, family, friends and the stranger-than-fiction characters she meets every day.

Shifting from humor to nostalgia, in "Rocky Bottom" she describes her childhood swimming hole. "The cold, black Edisto River snakes through Orangeburg and the South Carolina Low Country where I was born and raised. Swimming pools were a luxury only movie stars could afford, so we swam at Lee's
Pond or in the Edisto River. Rocky Bottom was a shallow area floored with small rocks and stones, and it is there that I learned to swim.

"I went to sleep last night thinking about the Edisto River, the Pavilion and Rocky Bottom . . . how my friends and I would spread blankets on the hill near the water and remain there all day long soaking up sun. I remembered learning how to
dance at the Pavilion, then shagging the night away to the juke box sounds of Elvis, Fats Domino and Little Richard. We used to wash our hair with Prell Shampoo just beyond the safety rope underneath the bridge. The cold, black river water rinsed it
clear and made it squeaky clean."
No taste of Rearick's work would be complete without a visit to the doggy side of the household. "Tallulah Blankhead ran away from home yesterday. She's spoiled rotten and is obsessively attached to Babe. She has never left the back yard
by herself. Why? Because she's joined at the hip with her bed, food bowl, and her favorite toy -- a pale green stuffed rabbit named Mr. Bill.
"I walked outside thinking she might have wandered onto the golf course and got herself bonked in the head by an errant Titleist. When I stopped hollering her name and started listening I heard her incomparable Cockapoo bark.
"Two blocks away, I spied her, snarling at a fire hydrant that some clever Southern patriot had painted gray and white to resemble a corpulent Confederate soldier. By the time I got to her, Tallulah had barked herself into a war whoop. Then she tore into General Lee as if he were drenched in Eau de Alpo." (Maybe we need to poijnt out, this is Babe's pooch--and he's from Pennsylvania. Maybe Tallulah is Yankee spy?)
Speaking of Yankees, living in a beautiful resort area, one is deluged with uninvited northern visitors appearing with seasonal regularity. In "Well, Shut My Mouth!" Rearick narrates her role as the reluctant hostess to a pair described as Lucy and Ethel at their worst.
Joining her for lunch are Doris, Babe's Yankee cousin and her equally Yankee friend, Ginger, here on a mini-snowbird visit. "Well! If this isn't the cutest, most awesome little café!" exclaims Ginger. She bats her mascared eyes. Fighting like cats and dogs, the two of them have been trying to out-do and out-shout each other since they arrived.
Without regard to other people in the restaurant, Doris's voice breaks the sound barrier. "Oh, shut UP!" she yells good-naturedly. "No, YOU shut up!" Ginger replies. They high-five each other and shout, "Awesome," in unison.
Before their Yankeeness becomes a catalyst for Southern diners to remember Fort Sumter and take revenge, I grab Doris by the arm and threaten to pinch her till she's cyanotic. "Simmer down! You sound like a couple of sixty-five year old displaced Valley Girls."
"This is how we always talk. What's wrong with that?"
I must have been crazy to think I could take these two out in public. Ginger is pointing at the day's special: Pork chops, black-eyed peas, collard greens. Yum.
"You people don't actually eat this stuff, do you?"
"Oh, that's nothing,' shouts Doris. 'They even eat hog jowls and something called chitlins."
I push my chair back. "Y'all excuse me. I need to wash my hands." I turn the corner and stride right past the Ladies Room on my way out the back door. "I'll bet you a Cuban Cigar that Lucy and Ethel will never miss me."

But don't you miss the opportunity to laugh until you fall out of your chair, and perhaps shed a tear or two at the antics and reminiscences in what is sure to become a regional favorite. Simply Southern, published by ExLibris, is available at
The Book Mark in St. Simons, and online at Rearick's website,...,Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and Borders.com.
Past president of Southeastern Writers Association, Rearick is an award-winning writer of short stories. Her first novel, Seldom Seen, is presently under review for publication while she works on a second novel called Four O'Clock Curtain and a collection of Christmas stories slated for publication in book form.

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This is one of the funniest books that I have ever read in my life. I think that Alison should have a TV show based on the situations described in this book. It would be a huge hit. I wish her all the luck in the world and I'm waiting for her next book.

Really liked this book. Full disclosure: I'm a 26 year old guy who, um, has some experience with back-stabbing friends, awful office experiences (i.e. I have a girlfriend). But reading this book actually made some sense of it all. It was funny, sharp, all in all a great read. It also gave me some more constructive things to say and suggest to my girlfriend instead of "I told you that girl was crazy" and "Just pee on her desk." Great book (but man, I'm glad I haven't been the recipient of these techniques ... uh oh, I already lent it to my lady).

I think it was RFK who uttered those infamous words. But I know this book can teach you how to live them. This book is hilarious! Five Stars! A must read for any girl looking to inject a little perspective into life's ups and downs. So don't get mad, get this book!

I bought this book for my sister thinking she could use it. She totally loved it and recommended that I also read it. This book is hilarious and every woman should own it. So don't mess with my sister, she knows how to get even!

A must read for women of all ages, you'll find yourself nodding in agreement the whole way through. It's one Eureka! moment after the next.
A witty, hilarious and fun approach to the all too real issues facing women, from self-image to self-guilt, this book covers it all. In between the laughter, Alison Grambs skillfully offers up real-life lessons and tips on how to be a better you -- without feeling preached too.