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Summary: Genius...
Review: The Rants is all the best of Dennis Miller's most hilarious social commentary. He is one of the very few people in comedy (George Carlin and Chris Rock also come to mind) that present us with extremely funny material, while also making us think. It's intelligent, witty, and most important...funny. I laughed out loud multiple times throughout the read. He hits on things such as education, sports in America, religion, and a variety of other topics. Most of these are serious issues, but he makes us laugh about them. While I don't agree with 100% of his beliefs, Miller makes such good points and convincing arguements that I can't help but respect his point of view. He is a great comedian and social critic, and this book is a compilation of some of his best work. I highly recommend it. The only reason it receives 4 stars instead of 5 is due to the fact that it is a DIRECT transcript of the opening rants performed on his show on HBO, most of which I'd already seen on television. I would've liked to see more material native to the book. Also, it went too fast! I blasted through it in one evening. All in all, a terrific book, and all fans of Dennis Miller should own a copy.
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Summary: It has about 10 funny pages out of 200
Review: This book contains hardly any funny rants about anything. He just talks about how much he hates everything but does not point out anything funny about the things that he hates. It is worth reading if you get it at the library, but do not buy it.
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Summary: RANT ON DENNIS, RANT ON !
Review: This book is a composite of many of Dennis' best rants. The reader may recognize aspects from SNL days and his stand up performances. All in all, an exceptional dichotomy of topical subjects. Dennis is a genius at providing an acerbic view of many current issues concerning politics, religion, sociology and the like. Give the man a cigar. An excellent read, or an exceptional audio. Try it. You will love it.
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Summary: This guy is a genius!
Review: This book is for anyone who just can't get enough of Dennis Miller from his amazingly funny HBO talk show. His intelligence, wit, and original humor makes him a comedian apart from all others. This book is definetely worth reading and rereading!
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Summary: Needs better production
Review: This CD is a collection of early rants from Dennis Miller's TV show. This is a great CD, but being his first, I think Miller still hasn't come into a good flow yet. I recommend his later CD's which are far better.Also, the cheesy production value really takes from the CD. There is really bad synth music between each track, and I wish they had taken the rant straight from the show. I miss the audience laughter (or lack of laughter) that Dennis plays off of. If you're a Dennis Miller fan, it's still a good purchase, but not the best.
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Summary: Rant On, Dennis!
Review: This collection of rants from Dennis Miller is generally excellent and topical social commentary. Written long before 9/11 and his coming of age as a more conservative voice, this is a fairly libertarian, rational, and practical look at life in the United States. There are a few areas that I disagree with him on, but I am not recommending that anyone think a certain way, just that people hear different concepts with an open mind and make their own decisions. In this book you can see the seeds of Miller's conservatism, although it is clear that he has been awakened and revitalized by the events of 9/11 and is thus more conservative now than when this book was written. Overall, this is a neat summary of Miller's world view as it existed in 1996. His gift of satire is preeminent in the world today, and while probably everyone will find something in this book to provoke or annoy them, at least it insists on the reader thinking for themselves. I would have given this book five stars except for the fairly frequent profanity. I know this is adapted from some of his HBO material, but the book could be used for a much younger audience to excellent effect if not for the language. Excellent job overall: highly recommended for people of any political leaning.
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Summary: Insightful And Funny
Review: This is a book I'm glad I read, because I not only learned some things, I also got to laugh a little also. Dennis Miller's opinions are very interesting, and most are on the par. He doesn't seem to hold back at all expressing his observations and beliefs. Good book.
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Summary: Brilliant social commentary
Review: This is a compilation of the "rants" portion of Miller's "Dennis Miller Live" show that runs on HBO. Although I've had HBO for about ten years, I must have been out of town during the couple of years that this book compiles, as none of them seem familiar. For those unfamiliar with the show, a Dennis Miller rant is about a 1-3 minute monologue where Miller goes off on a tear about the subject (generally political) of the evening (ie: equal rights, sex in the White House, customer service). To see one of these is a beautiful thing -- Miller is not only funny, but uses complicated and eloquent speech in such a spitfire method that one sits back stunned at the verbal assault. He's also a brilliant satirist, pulling contemporary references out of his bags of slams quicker than you can say Jocylyn Elders. That said, as a book, it's a bit of a disappointment -- half the fun in the rants is watching Miller spew them forth, an effect that doesn't translate easily to the written medium. Kind of like how reading about a car wreck doesn't compare to seeing one.
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Summary: Fred, do you really think Dennis Miller is sexy???
Review: With Dennis Miller you either love his act, or you find him unbearably annoying and hate it. Count me in with the former. Like George Carlin's "Brain Droppings", Dennis Miller's humor comes across as well on the printed page as it does during a live performance
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