When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

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Summary: Sorry George!
Review: George's act is very tired. Most of the material in this book is stale and recycled. His desperation is very obvious in the 'controversial cover' attempt. I guess he has to earn money to compensate for his latest rehabilitation. Save your money!

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Summary: shut up!
Review: I will admit that this is definitely not Carlins best work. That being said... if you are a christian you should know right away that this book is not for you. The title is "When will Jesus bring the porkchops?". If you buy this book and you are a christian you are stupid because you knew you weren't going to like it before you bought it. To all the real Carlin fans: if I could go back in time I wouldn't have bought this. If i offended you because I said that... good because I didn't like you anyway.

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Summary: Not the best, but not too bad.
Review: I've read all three Carlin books many times and I'd have to say "When will Jesus Bring the Porkchops" is probably my least favorite. Most of the book is full of his view on euphemisms which, while funny, can become stale pretty quickly. I finished the book in two days and found the latter part of the book seemed funnier than the first half. Still though, there are some Carlin bits I wish had made it in that weren't in either of his other books. Overall the book is sufficient for the general Carlin fan, but probably want satisfy a run of the mill fan.

And about all this talk of religion, why? God has a sense of humor too... I'm not sure why religious folks would get so up in arms over a simple book. Carlin has the right to sell this book in stores just like Joyce Meyers has her right to write about Jesus. If we were to go and ban Carlin's book then it would only be fair to ban any book about religion. But we don't, that's what's good about America.

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Summary: This is an objective review of the content
Review: I've read all three of Carlin's books, and this is by far the worst. It really feels like Carlin was scraping the bottom of the barrel for material. It's very observational, but not very funny. Most of the book (I stopped at about page 95) is his word-play, which can be clever at times when it's interspersed with other funny material. But page after page of word-play and rants about euphimisms gets old. If you want funny Carlin material, read Brain Droppings, which had me laughing so hard I cried several times. Sorry, George, but this book is not funny.

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Summary: I hope rehab doesn't dull his wit.
Review: If you are a fan of George Carlin, you will not be dissapointed with his latest effort. While it contains material that you might have heard in various stand-up specials, much of it I had yet to come across. Even the recycled stuff was amusing to see in print. While many are offended by his frank approach to everyday situations, it is exactly what makes him so damn funny. He says all the things that humans may think, but would never have the guts to say. Half the book will make you giggle, half will make you think, but all of it is entertaining and is highly recommended to those of you who get his brand of black/cynical humor. I had two problems with the book: 1. it's huge leading (space between lines) stretches the text over many more pages than was necessary. And 2. it left me wondering: When WILL Jesus bring the pork chops?

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Summary: not even so so
Review: Luckily in brick and mortar bookstores the customer has the opportunity to browse through the books he contemplates buying. So I looked at Pork Chops the other day. Now my background is that I consider George Carlin to be one of the greatest comic geniuses in the English speaking world. Seven words you can't say. An hour of free floating hatred. Etc etc etc. I was even one of those rare persons who loved _George_, his short-lived sitcom. I even continue to laugh about the episode that turned on the toxic effects of insufficient hair-washing.

Unfortunately, this book was not funny. In vain, I searched through the pages to find something to make me laugh out loud, to guffaw, or maybe chuckle. Nothing. Not even a wry smirk. I hope his much-publicized time in detox brings him back to form. As for me, I satisfied my need for comic ranting with a Dennis Miller book.

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Summary: Don't quit your day job!
Review: Much of this book was witty, true, and included things that you wish someone had said but no one ever did. My problem was with the bathroom humor. When Carlin went off in this direction he was not funny, he was not even witty, he was generally just plain disgusting. I imagine that bathroom humor can be made to have some wit, but he missed it here. He is much more enjoyable to watch than he came across, on balance, in this book . . and he should stick to that . . George, don't quit your day job!

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Summary: Good Cultural Observations
Review: No one has a better grasp than Carlin for the mutating of our english language. George hits it righton the head with how rediculous the way people talk has gotten. George has given an excellent "reality check" for the readers on many levels of formal conversation.

Ofcourse, in between his mastery of finding the absurdity in our language, he mentions scenarios that seem to be nothing more than poorly thought or partially thought out out space-fillers in his book.

If you can burn through the poorly written situations, you will find some good stuff in his book.

Well done!

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Summary: Ehh
Review: Not George's best work, by far. WWJBTPC is best when he focuses on people and on himself. His rants on euphemisms, while interesting and illuminating to read, are not what I was looking for when I bought the book. I was looking for something that was laugh-out-loud funny, and all I got were, for the most part, the transcripted versions of three skits he performed on an HBO special back in 1991 (which is still funny, but a profound disappointment), with other material surrounding it.

Seriously, guys, wait for the paperback.

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Summary: Recommend Waiting for Better Things to Come...Hopefully
Review: Ouch! I HATE writing a bad review for George. I LOVE him. Have for many, many year. So it was with great optimism I picked up his latest book. I have to admit I didn't finish it. I couldn't. It just wasn't funny. And it wasn't enlightening. It was just confusing and boring. Sorry, George.