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Summary: Sorry Excuses for Corpulence and Obesity
Review: Rabble-rouser and mudslinger Michael Moore's turns his scorn at the American people saying we go out of our way to remain stupid and ignorant. Moore, whose other brilliant observations have included that OJ Simpson is innocent, urges employers now to hire only black people. You don't always know when Moore is serious and when he's kidding which conveniently allows him to easily slip in and out of racially-charged arguments without saying much of anything. He recklessly strings together personal observations and facts in an attempt to make a mockery of everything, emphasizing grievances and fueling the sentiments of those who dislike America. While claiming to be a pacifist, he calls for the violent overthrow of the US government, gloats about being a college-dropout (maybe he doesn't know what 'pacifist' means) and has a total disdain for intellectuals and college-graduate 'bluebloods' who criticize his methods or body of work (isn't this how the 'Killing Fields' got started?). But while he muses about capitalism from his precious Manhattan marble palace, he admits he has no better solutions and leaves that one for 'the rest of us to figure out'. It's beneficial that through his observations we may actually correct problems and improve as a society, but I suspect he might, in some ways, be hastening the end of American civility with his form of 'ambush journalism'. Luckily, most Americans have a fantastic sense of humor and are too centered, critical and smart to accept most of his bizarre conclusions. I'd recommend more reputable writers for sensible American humor, wit and commentary.
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Summary: Best book of the last several years!
Review: I would say that this is one of the best books I've read in
the last 5 years or so...perhaps since "Secrets of the Temple"
was published.I had the privilege of meeting and hearing Mr. Moore speak
during his recent book tour. This author really "gets it" and understands TOTALLY what is
going on in America today and he figured it all out WITHOUT
a college education! Michael Moore is one of those rare innate intellects who has
the ability to tell very serious subject matter in a clever
and very funny way....READ THIS BOOK...and give it to a friend.
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Summary: This book is a wake-up call
Review: This book should be required reading in every college and high school in the country. I would include required for everyone in federal and state government, and every CEO, but I'm afraid our government representatives and corporate CEO's are so immersed in the acrid brew they've created, there's not much hope for them.
Moore's book crystallizes what many of us suspected all along: The nation has been rotting since about the sixties. The education system is in shambles, the lower classes are pushed down ever lower, and the powerful get lobby access to the lawmakers for sweet deals at the expense of the taxpayer. While the poor are thrown in jail for minor offenses, scamming or polluting CEO's are let off the hook. We have an un-elected President - chosen by his dad's buddies on the Supreme Court. Americans are the laughing stock of the world. I could go on -- read the book, it gets worse. This book is a wake-up call. And yes, I'm a white man.
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Summary: Mike & the Librarians Strike Back
Review: Mr. Moore has a way with simple declarative sentences. He uses them effectively. That talent seems to tick off the people who are the subject of his latest book. Why is the book #1 on the NYT best seller list after 4 weeks (this written April 22, 2002)? It is funny. It is profane. It is pedantic. It is not what we should be reading "in wartime". It is a quick read and it is a funny take on what we all ought to know by now. Consuming satire is the only way to live though the next few years without having a nervous breakdown - and it's cheaper than SSRI meds.
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Summary: Moore saves our Democracy
Review: Wondering why the U.S. is unsigning treaties, being taken off the U.N. Human Rights Commission, that in the so-called economic recovery people are out of work months before and after 9/11? Are you also not sure how Enron could have happened? Moore explains what is really happening in Washington, D.C. starting with the theft of the presidency. He explains why the government "for the people, by the people" is actually for the corporations and the wealthy people. Ironically, corporations pay very little in taxes but decide public policy causing "you' the taxpayer to make up for their lack of payment and self-serving decisions. Moore-- in a hilarious and entertaining yet informative fashion--makes us the beneficiary of his research into what's going on in the corridors of power and even provides information on how to change things for the better. A great, read that makes you want to e-mail your friend with excerpts. More of Moore please!
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Summary: The truth can be so sadly funny
Review: Michael Moore is hilarious. From start to finish this book will make you laugh. It is well written and filled with full of interesting facts, which seem to have been well researched. This book should be required reading for any college level business ethics course.
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Summary: GEEZZZZ Relax Man
Review: This book is nothing more than a rant. However I do give Michael Moore Credit due to the fact that he isn't one of those people who you run into everyday who just rants and complains about everything and does nothing about it. Michael Moore has always spoken his mind by means of writing and movies hoping to make a difference. His views seem to be a bit to socialist for my tastes and they become quite apparent in this book. Probably the only thing I did like was the beating on Bush even though it tends to go on and on, I agree with a lot of it. Even though I voted for Bush. Overall I can't say that I quite got the point of this book which attemts to be funny but really isn't.
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Summary: depressing but worth it
Review: Excellent book for anyone who wants to make the country better. Thought provoking and informative, intimidating, funny - calls us to act on behalf of our country and the world by becoming politically involved ASAP.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: Michael Moore is most likely going to rattle more than a few Rebublican and Democratic cages. This book is a validation for the rest of us who have been isolated with our desperation for a taste of journalistic reality. I finished the book in a day and a half and felt encouraged and understood -- finally. Michael Moore, I can't thank you enough.
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Summary: The Way It Is? The Way It Ought To Be!
Review: I give Michael Moore five stars for selling what must be hundreds of thousands of books. Is that, ironically, testimony to America being in some ways the way Michael Moore says it is? If you're looking for entertainment, I recommend "Stupid White Men". If you're not one of Michael Moore's "stupid white men", if you're looking for facts not spin, I recommend a book I found that has to be the best kept secret out there today called "West Point: Character Leadership Education, A Book Developed From The Readings And Writings Of Thomas Jefferson", by Norman Thomas Remick. It's about America, the way it was supposed to be and the way it ought to be. It has, strangely, a close relationship to Michael Moore's book. I don't know why it's not the book that's selling hundreds of thousands. Or, is the reason part of what Michael Moore is telling us?
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