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Summary: A Must Have for People In Their Forties
Review: This book was the funniest that I have ever seen that related to food. I can still vividly remember some of the ads that were in the book and I laughed so hard in the bookstore that some people must have thought I was crazy ! This is a MUST HAVE for your coffee table. If you like to laugh then you will LOVE this book.
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Summary: Laughed till I cried
Review: I have always loved looking through old cookbooks of the 40's and 50's, upon which this book is based. This is the absolute funniest book I have had the pleasure of reading. Lileks' writing is the best, and his description of some of these dishes will have you rolling on the floor. I had to pace myself so that I wouldn't finish it in one sitting. I am so disappointed that I didn't think of this first! A gem of a read.
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Summary: Extremely funny book
Review: You want to be as careful in reading this book as you would in eating the food depicted in it. Try not to take in too much too quickly or your convulsive laughter could incapacitate you for hours. I laughed so hard & continuously I literally got stomach cramps. Great gift item for everyone but your mother.
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Summary: One of the funniest books ever
Review: This book had me shrieking aloud with hilarity. I tried to read out passages to my friends to explain why I was laughing so hard, but was unable to because of said laughter. From the frighteningly garish illustrations to James Lileks' on-target and hilarious commentary, this book deserves a place on everyone's bedside or coffee table.
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Summary: Not for the weak-stomached
Review: A very funny book, but not for the weak-stomached. I found that it was most effective when read through, so that the humor accumlated. The recipes are frightening... I don't know that I will ever have the courage to try them. How grateful I am that my mother didn't cook these!
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Summary: Buy it
Review: If you have a sense of humor at all, you will love this book--regardless of whether or not you're a "foodie." And, if you're of a certain age, it'll make a perfect gift for the parental units, who actually had to live through the times--and foods--it documents.
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Summary: This book is so funny it injured me
Review: I was suffering from pneumonia when I first saw this material on the lileks web site. I was laughing so hard I tore my rib muscles and had to endure further suffering. It was all worth it! This is some of the finest comedy I have ever seen. Check out the look inside feature to gets a glimpse of what you could be having and go to the lileks web site to get some more, and definately BUY THIS BOOK!
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Summary: Delightfully Disgusting
Review: You may not actually want to eat a full meal--or even a snack--before looking at this book. The photographs are generally nauseating to behold, but delightfully so. Lileks has pulled very strange recipes from cookbooks of the 50s to create a fascinating review of popular culture at that time. Readers of a certain age will groan with recognition at the many festive Jello and hot dog recipes. Everyone else will be surprised, amused, and appalled by what constituted family and party fare in the 1950s and 1960s. Lileks'commentary is fabulously sophomoric. I give this book as a gift to authentic foodies who reward me by gagging and laughing out loud as they turn every page.
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Summary: I laugh so much it hurts
Review: Absolutely hysterical book. It consistently makes me scream with laughter whenever I pick it up. I loaned it to a friend who was recovering from a broken rib and it caused a setback in his recovery process. The pictures are disgusting but Lileks' commentary is unbelievably priceless.
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Summary: Beautiful photos spoiled by annoying text
Review: Lileks assembles an amazing photographic journey through surreal looking edibles, in their all of their imperfectly color-matched glory, and then undercuts any sense of fun with contempt-filled, ostensibly "hip" commentary. The text isn't even amusing for those who like that kind of humor. Authors like Jane and Michael Stern can take this kind of subject and roll with it, delighting in the joys of "cholesterol baroque" (case in point: Lileks just dismissingly makes fun of the "weird" idea of cooking with 7-up, while the Sterns in several publications give recipes, tips and history behind this unique culinary adventure). Lileks, on the other hand, seems content to say "doesn't this look gross!" over - and over - and over. I bought it for the incredible pictures though. Maybe I should have just gone to the used bookstore and picked up some original four-color brochures!
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