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Summary: So-So
Review: I thought this book got a little more hype than it should have. None of the information in this book took me by surprise, yet there was some tidbits that entertained. Eszterhas' writing style did give the overdone Clintoncapades a bit more readability and wit to entertain, but in the end, it's the same willard story. The best part of the book is the supporting cast.Recommend...library
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Summary: Couldn't put it down!
Review: On a visit to my hometown last weekend, I saw my mom's copy on her bedside table, picked it up, and got hooked instantly. I reluctantly put it down to go to a mandatory cocktail party, only to find my brother in law face down in it when I got home at midnight. I knew he didn't want to give it back to me...even though I was dying to get back into it. (He woke up the next morning to go buy his own copy.) I couldn't really steal my mom's copy, but read it right up until we got to the airport curb for my flight home. I landed and went straight to Barnes and Noble so I could finish it, and did, last night. It's HILARIOUS, shocking, and I'm afraid, true! I keep wondering if the Clintons have read it...or Monica...or Farrah....or Willard? No one will ever look at any of them the same way, after reading this wonderful book. Buy it! I LOVED IT!
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Summary: ARE WE LAUGHING AT OURSELVES?
Review: IS JOE ESZTERHAUS LAUGHING WITH US OR AT US?EITHER WAY I DID NOT STOP LAUGHING.THEN I BOUGHT THE UNABRIDGED TAPE AND HOWLED.THIS IS PURE VENOM LACED WITH AHELLISH SENSE OF HUMOR. I LOVED IT.
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Summary: Insider tell all
Review: Eszterhas's style wore me out halfway through. Most interesting was his insider's dish on the celebrities and tinseltown, and some additional tidbits on Clinton. It'll be interesting to see if he does work in that town again!
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Summary: WOW!
Review: I saw the author, interview with Charlie Rose, and ordered the book. I just finished it, today, and have already passed it on to a good friend. I found the book fascinating, titilating, and profane. I am a 66 year old woman, and not a member of the sixties generation. Much of the book contained information I wasn't aware of. Many times I was shocked. However, I could not put the book down! I am so glad that I read it, and will recomend it to my friends. For me, it was good to find the balance between so much sexual information about Bill Clinton, and new information about so many other politicians of both parties. I, for one, am tired of hearing so many people act horrified at what we have learned about this president. I remember FDR, and nothing was ever printed about his personal life, until long after his death. I really don't need to know about anyone else's sex life. But,if we must be informed about one of our politicians, then let's know how frequently so many others share those habits. Reading this book, has left me with the feeling that no one in political life, is exempt of that power going to their head, and areas below their waists! I will be working to help elect more women to high level, political positions. Perhaps when there is a more equal balance between men and women in the Congress, these school boy practices will diminish. Thanks Joe, for my enlightenment.
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Summary: Animal House presents the Clinton Impeachment
Review: This book tries to be a no-holds-barred, pull-back-the-covers, over-the-top report on the Clinton scandals. It succeeds. This is not the book to buy if you want a sober recitation of the facts or a thoughtful analysis of why impeachment failed; it is, however, the first place to start if you want amusing (but unsubstantiated) rumors about Clinton's sex life, and plenty of names named (whether justified or not). Occasionally, you get a few insights that may be worth something beyond sleaze value, such as Larry Flynt's role in dethroning Newt Gingrich's would-be successor, but mostly this is an unpretentious hatchet book having fun with the most mockable of recent presidents. Occasionally Eszterhas will get a little too gross for most readers (the last thing I wanted was another recounting of the cigar incident), but almost everyone will get some laughs out of this book.
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Summary: Ignore the forced star, this book gets a Zero Star Rating
Review: I love satire, but this book doesn't qualify as such. It was a complete waste of time and money.
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Summary: Olympian Revenge, by fermed
Review: This book's central theme and its execution is of breathtaking vulgarity. It is focused on things below the waist, at the level of the male and female sex organs. The book attempts to be funny, and sophisticated, and very with it; but its vulgarity is so overpowering that the other matters it touches are easily lost. Those of us who have been deeply offended by the near continuous degradation of the office of the presidency by its present occupant cannot help but notice how well this cheap excess of a book matches the atmosphere created by the occupants of the White House. There is, after all, a certain justice attached to the publication of this book; a book which has infuriated the White House. Is this one of the deserving legacies left by our draft-dodging, mendacious, raping, womanizing and impeached president and his awful wife? Is this salacious book of filth the most deserving colophon for this couple's presidency? Probably so. Here the president's penis, called Willard, is given a whole chapter in which to utter its philosophy and lamentations; here the insertion of a cigar into the vaginal orifice of "that woman, Miss Lewinsky" is celebrated and fleshed out (so to speak); here the president's wife is trashed over and over and finally rendered as a duplicitous lesbian driven by power madness. Is this fair? Of course not; but could this book represent a manifestation of Olympian justice stemming from, say, an enraged Zeus? Yes, most definitely.
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Summary: Eszterhas has plenty to say to defend Clinton
Review: Mr Eszterhas has plenty to say about all the intrigues in the Clinto administration. Typical of a left wing zealot nothing must get in the way of supporting your left wing buddies even if they are criminals. Eszterhas supports clinton because he is one of "us" he says. He likes what Clinton has done for the country. Mr Eszterhas likes people, wants to help them, and wants to see government helping people. In other words he a a do gooding Liberal from the 60's mold. If Mr Eszterhas is so so pure, how can he support a president that bombed a foreign country because he wanted to take the heat from himself. This Eszterhas seems to gloss over. Somali people were killed because a murderous thug lobbed a few missilies at defenceless people. I find the liberal mind fasinating. I hope to read more books by this author to get a few more good laughs.
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Summary: American Rhapsody
Review: A revealing insight that mirrors closely public historical records. Actually, a great account that reinforces just how low our government has plunged into the depths of drugs, sex, and personal insanities. You will likely laugh heartily at many instances of pathetic ludicrosity. Overall, not much of an eye-opener to anyone who has been less than brain dead over the past 7 1/2 years. Occasionally, the author seems to drift off into a netherworld, then suddenly grabs ahold of a thread to reality, and gets back to the path he has chosen for this reading. (Maybe he got another line of powder) I just hope that Sister Hillary or Willard (Bill) do not just bite the bullet and push the button on all of us while in a rage over being caught in the throes of an anti-semetic outburst.
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