Satire Books

At fourteen, I have to read many biographies about famous presidents, since I'm homeschooled and my dad is big on history. He gave me this book to read, and to my surprise, it was the only biography of Lincoln that I have ever read in which I found myself grieving that he was murdered. With every other biography, I was always glad when he finally got shot, just so the book would end already.

I read this book nearly 7 years ago and still remember a few of the anecdotes with fondness. At the time I was 13 and could appreciate the simple logic of Mr. Lincoln and his sparkling wit. I'd recommend this to anyone looking for a nostalgic read that won't confront you with questions about Lincoln's political ambitions or racial attitudes. It is simply about a man, famous though he may have been, he was also smart and funny. In an age when humor is all about hurtful, shock-value jokes, this reminds us that it takes far more to make someone laugh and be able to do so more than 100 years after you are gone.

This is a brilliant satire of those little affirmation books, if I must say so myself (being half of "Shanti," who my friend Brad Bunnin and I channel). Alas, some these affirmations have been ripped off by some scoundrel and sent all over the internet and usenet. It's a funny little book, great for gifts, or advancing your karmic points. Jack Mingo

A collection of "half-firmations" which will open your eyes and make you laugh at your problems. Some of these have been making the rounds of the internet recently (Summer 1997), without proper attribution -- get a copy of this wonderful little book to get the whole picture. "I Am My Own Best Casual Acquaintance" is a poke in the eye and a kick in the backside that will get you thinking and leave you rolling on the floor laughing. There is no better antidote to an overdose of therapy, support groups, and self-help books, and no better way to improve your outlook on your own problems or the problems of your loved ones. This book manages to be hilarious, poke some fun at serious topics, and also give you a fresh and healthy viewpoint about what's really important

Thank you to whoever republished these little gems!!! I had a couple when I was in elementary school and now as an adult have bought all of them!

How my ratings work:
5 - I really liked/loved it
4 - I liked it
3 - Could've been better/worth a look
2 - Just didn't live up to the potential
1 - Simply aweful

I first read this when I was 8 years old at my school library. I've been a fan of Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang since I first saw the cartoons (it was before I could read that I saw the cartoons) and read the comics whenever I could. Peanuts is a timeless classic, since it gives no specific time and place, it just shows kids being kids. I don't own a copy of this book yet, and I haven't read it in so long, but I'll never forget it. It's simple (like all peanuts stories), but also incredibly touching (so not so simple), as the title says Charlie Brown wants all the friends he can get. Everyone can relate to that, I'm so greatful for the friends I have. So I can't wait to get my copy of this and read it again.

I thing sylvester and tweety are da bomb. Tweety is so cute. Sylvester is my favorite though. I watch Sylvester and Tweety almost everytime it comes on.

This is a great book. It tells you all the cartoons They were in. Even before they came together. It has who directed and talked for them. Pictures from back when they were black and white. Cartoons from World war 2 and even show back when Tweety was a quail and not a canary. A must have for all Tweety fans,

The hilarious, dopey comic strip format makes you think this is for the kids, but it isn't! This is really for parents (and may scare the heck out of you) and includes paragraphs of very serious insight. I won't be showing this to my 13 year-old son as yet, but it does help me understand him.

Wolf, Tony (1988. I'll Be Home Befor Midnign and I Won't Get Pregnant: Stories of Adolescence. Illustrations Brance Menk, New York, Vintage Books.

It is easy to take this book lightly. The cartoons in every chapter make it deceivingly simple. However, the stories are poignant and powerful. It deals with the tough issues many teens face with humar and accuracy. Everything from Anorexia to Drug use is discussed. Physical and emotional changes teens experience are also discussed. Although the text tooks like an easy read, the stories give you something to think about. For example, many young girls experience problems with body image. The books has a story about a girl who deals with this problem. When the story starts out, the girl is healthy. She is putting away the toys of childhood. A particular toy, a doll, tells the girl she needs to loose a few pounds. The girl has a normal body. In the drawings, it is depicted with two line for her body. Throughout the story, the lines for her body grow closer together. Soon, she is nothing more than a stick-figure drawing. During the story, the doll keeps telling the girl she only needs to loose a few more pounds. These are the types of images that young teen girls see and hear everyday. This story gives the reader the perspective of a young teen who faces this problem. The book holds no punches in dealing with the realities of growing-up. The illustrations which follow each chapter give the reader a better image with which to see events through the eyes of an adolescence. The book is easy to relate to and would be good for parents of teens or those who work with teens to read to help them remember what it was like to be a teenager.

I've had this book for over a year now, and I still laugh out loud when I read it. I would highly recommend this to people who enjoy a good laugh!

This collection of cartoons is clever and hilarious. I was laughing out loud when I read it in the bookstore. Thanks Andrew Weldon for drawing comedy, and improving my day immensley.

I love this book! Glen Baxter has a wonderfully strange sense of humor. This book is full of drawings, sometimes strange and sometimes not, with strange captions. There's an entire chapter of Old West drawings, and Baxter seems to enjoy humor involving wimples. "Fruits of the World in Danger" is very amusing, and I really enjoyed the occasional "Great Failures of Our Time". It's sometimes hard to figure out the humor in a particular caption, but there were more times when a page would make me laugh.

Glen Baxter is a true breath of fresh air; his single-frame cartoons are always original and often so funny they can reduce readers to tears. The style is old-school, and wouldn't be out of place in a Boy's Own Annual circa 1930, with cowboys, swashbucklers, vintage private schoolchildren and more all represented. The real humour comes from the captions, which put phrases like "We don't hold with post-structuralist analysis around here" in the mouths of cowboys and imbue schoolboys with creepy, sinister motives.

This collection is all a fan of cartooning or indeed of humour could ask for. There's really nothing more to be said.

A superbly, creatively paradoxical book. This book doesn't just set forth, dogmatically and exclusively, a set of ideas held by the author to be 'objectively true', it puts forward a set of ideas which enter into paradoxical (critical) relationships with each other, stimulating the reader to take up a critical position towards the book hirself. If intelligence rests on a critical attitude, then this book will increase your intelligence. Philosophy as art and dance.

As Marvin Minsky desribes in his book 'Society of Mind' the Agents are small programs that achieve small tasks on their own. Once an Agent is grouped with another Agent new functions and actions can occur that single Agents cannot produce on their own. So what about a whole society of Agents?

Dr. Timothy Leary, in his own chaotic style, recapitulates evolution from the first organism in which life began in the Eastern Oriental shorelines. DNA, the breath of life is always chasing the Sun Westward towards our neurological destiny. If you are familar with Dr. Leary's 24 Stage/8 Neuro-Circuit theory, then you will get a rise from this book. We have migrated from Asia to California as the launching pad into space where we will create H.O.M.E.s (High Oribtal Mini-Earths). The Intelligence Agents have already established their homes in future hive colonies. The secret to becoming an Intelligence Agent and Intelligence Increase is to SMILE (Space Migration Intelligence Increase Life Extension - the 'I' is squared).

The book is designed to look like articles written from future and past Intelligence Agents, with Leary out in the wings sending you transmissions from Switzerland on his update. The articles falsely written by such neuronauts as Carol Rosin, Anise Nun, Henry Marshall, Pauline Kael, Andy Warhol, Susan Kaiser Vogel and so many others that Leary includes in the Genetic Hall of Fame (however, one must realize at some point this was all written by Leary himself). The Intelligence Agents are all working together to get you moving.

Leary's style is jumbled with theories, ideas, histories, dedications, neurological data, DNA information, cultures of smaller organisms, cultures of cosmic life, evolution of organisms and individuals, occult, philosophy and metaphors compact in what seems to be a cross of 'Neuropolitique' and 'The Game of Life.' What I find exciting about this book is not so much the confusing writing, but within the chaos there is a positive code that Leary is sending to all of us, possibly decoded from his own DNA transmissions, and that code is: "Move On!"

Lewis, if you can read this wherever you're at.....know that we miss your columns. Thank you for leaving us the legacy of your books!

This book, makes you truely proud to be a southerner. And it makes you proud to be a man. Lewis says what's on his mind. You may not always agree. Some may find in funny, and some will find it obnoxious. I agreed with every one of his views and all I have to say is, that it's about time someone said some of this!!! A truley touching and humorous book.

You wonder when you read these kinds of books if the second one could be as good as the first one, but this one really is. It shows that everyday life is a sitcom in and of itself, but it also brings us experiences that we can learn from, both spiritually and in day-to-day life. It really causes you to think about the small things in life...like this author's amount of hair.

Unlike his college career and dating life, there is no sophomore slump in book publishing for Martin.

Is it "fair" to rate an as-yet-unread book?! YES! Because the rating is based on enjoying Babb's previous book ("When Did Caesar become a Salad..."). Along with this "review" is my order for 10 copies of "It's a Dog Eat Dog World..."
My Christmas shopping is complete!