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Summary: Good but not Michael Moore's best
Review: Downsize This! is a good read, however I didn't enjoy it as much as I enjoyed Roger & Me (yes, book vs. film, apples and oranges) or Stupid White Men.Michael tells the truth and it hurts sometimes. His hyperbole and anger in this book made me uncomfortable at times. I have learned from Michael's email bulletins that when his rhetoric is most painful I am likely misinterpreting satire for venom. It was helpful to remind myself of this at times when reading this book.
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Summary: A very entertaining read.
Review: I use to be a Republican until I read Downsize this. I never realized how corrupt my party was. At first I was skeptical; "Great, another left-wing liberal". But when you open it up and begin to read your jaw drops. I spent the whole day online to see if what Michael Moore was saying was true, and to my horror it was true. I learned that both party's were corrupt, and you will to if you read this book. Check out his films "Roger & Me", and "The Big One". They will astonish
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Summary: A very entertaining read.
Review: I used to be a Republican until I read Downsize this. I never realized how corrupt my party was. At first I was skeptical; "Great, another left-wing liberal". But when you open it up and begin to read your jaw drops. I spent the whole day online to see if what Michael Moore was saying was true, and to my horror it was true. I learned that both party's were corrupt, and you will to if you read this book. Check out his films "Roger & Me", and "The Big One". They will astonish
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Summary: Michael Moore is as American as you can get!
Review: pa·tri·ot·ic (ptr-tk) adj. --- Feeling, expressing, or inspired by love for one's country. source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition - Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Look it up in any dictionary and you will get a similar definition. Notice it doesn't say anything about staying silent and never openly showing dissent towards your government. That's because our country was founded on the belief that we have the freedom of expression along with other freedoms... Anyway, for those who actually want to READ the book, here are some of my thoughts on it. Michael Moore, for those unfamiliar, is a one of todays most outspoken mainstream progressives. A die-hard supporter of Nader and the Green party, Moore is most well known for TV Nation and the indie movie "Roger and Me." In "Downsize This," Moore takes on the both Democrats and Republicans in hilarious essays that will make you laugh while you growing angry. He also takes on that bane of Democracy: Large, rich corporations. The best essay in the book is "Would Pat Buchanan Take a Check From Satan?" In it, Moore takes an old political trick from Buchanan's days with Nixon and uses it against Mr. Buchanan. According to Moore, Buchanan cashed checks from "The John Wayne Gacy Fan Club," (famous serial killer) and "Abortionists for Buchanan." Pat still hasn't cashed the Satan one yet. Look for Moore's new book - "Stupid White Men...." It was nearly banned and destroyed because he dared criticize the President.
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Summary: Gave me the giggles...
Review: Satire is really a lost art form, but Michael Moore revives it with this book. My wife gave me this book for my birthday last year. I had such a great time reading this book. He really does a great job skewering the people who deserve it and does an even better job of showing how the actions of corporate America affect the little guy (like me!). I'm really looking forward to his next book.
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Summary: Moore Is Un-American
Review: Michael Moore is anti-America. HE HATES THIS COUNTRY! DON'T READ HIS ANTI-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA. If he likes being a communist so much why doesn't he go and live in Russia.
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Summary: Flat Out Hilarious
Review: Michael Moore is the man! And if you haven't figured that out yet, go rent Roger and Me, watch it, then read this book. Less heartbreaking and depressing than the movie, Downsize This is a powerful hodgepodge of knee-slapping anecdotes which you just hope every crooked CEO will be forced to read.
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Summary: Just to help fix the sillly 1 star reviews
Review: Andy Rooney said it - "The only thing wrong with socialism is that it doesn't work. The only thing right about capitalism is that it does". Michael Moore tries to make sense of this problem in this witty book. Right-wingers will hate it because he makes them out to be the careless jerks they are.
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Summary: For those who think a Job is a Right...
Review: This is more of the same pro-union, left-wing musings from people who have no basic grasp of macroeconomics. They think we can legislate and tax ourselves into prosperity. They hold to a Marxist view that a job and economic security is an inherent right. While the author is vehemently opposed to corporate efforts at organizing the law for the purposes of "legal plunder," he is all to willing to support such an effort if it is to the benefit of the labor unions and the "oppressed working class." If you want to put corporate welfare in its proper perspective, read "Business and the Fight for a Free Society," by Theodore J. Forstmann and Edward H. Crane, from the Cato Institute, which is available online. It explains why so many businesses are statists these days...
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Summary: Moore, Moore, Moore!
Review: As an author with my debut novel in its initial release and an American government/economics teacher in one of the most impoverished high schools in the United States, I love DOWNSIZE THIS! Michael Moore is a brilliant satirist. This book owns a place on my classroom desk, and I often cite passages from DOWNSIZE THIS! to support my ramblings about the current state of the American political ecomony. I especially enjoy using his chapter on corporate criminals where I get a chance to point directly at students (who are wise enough by then to know they are supposed to agree with their instrcutor's positions which are routinely in sympathy with Mr. Moore's) who are using products produced by these "criminals." Mr. Moore's ravings about NAFTA may be growing old in some parts of this nation, but not at my school--rural and Latino--that is less than a mile from one of the "NAFTA HIGHWAYS." I treasure the memory of the day when a state senator came to speak to my class and found himself peppered with questions drawn from material in this book. I recommend DOWNSIZE THIS! highly, as I do Michael Moore's films ROGER AND ME, CANADIAN BACON, and THE BIG ONE as well as the video sets of episodes originally produced for his two television shows. I only wish he'd collect more of TV NATION onto video. I would love to use his Canada episode, his segment on Avon sales in Latin America, and the Coke/Pepsi rivalry in a Mexican village piece in my classroom. Great works all!
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