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Summary: Babyhood isn't just about babies.
Review: What's so wierd about this book is that you can relate it to anything in your life. I mean, who hasn't said to someone, "You're such a baby" or "Don't be such a baby." Babyhood really teaches you, in a down to earth way, people skills. I read it in a Learning Annex class on Communicating with Comedy and found it to be truly eye-opening. Someday I'll remember where I learned how to let it all go and just "be a big baby!" I could only give it three stars though because I deducted one because I would like more pictures and number two I would like a sequel!
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Summary: "Babyhood" is a babyhoot!
Review: Reiser does it again--from his roles in movie's, such as, "Local Hero" to"Diner" to"Sudden Impact",to his literary endevers, he never stops to aim true and hit my funy bone! This time he aims at baby's and, boy, does he hit acomedy bullseye! I cracked "up"! They really are,like old men in wrinkly pink suits! Big type makes it easier to dig up all the comedy "nugget's" that paul has buried.
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Summary: Babyhood helped me find the the little Dad inside me.
Review: My love affair with Paul Reiser's prose started with his debut, "Couplehood". I've recited his "What's for dinner, honey" bit from that gem at countless seminars. My colleagues love it! Well lucky for us Paul Reiser freaks, the laughs don't stop in the Large Print Edition of Babyhood. Once again, Paul Reiser delivers the comedic, heartfelt goods. Brutally honest, full of magical moments, and with a fine bold print that's not afraid to say "Look at me, I'm LARGE PRINT and proud of it." Paul, if you're reading this, thank you for once again dipping in to the beautiful well that is your mind and producing this wonderful, sweet book. And also for not forgetting us folks who enjoy LARGE PRINT.
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Summary: Shame on you Mr. Reiser sir.
Review: I just don't get it, why can't people tell some jokes in a book for a change? You know, a guy walks into a bar sort of stuff. Now that's funny. I don't like baby jokes. I got this book called a 100 funny jokes and boy, is it funny. It's got a bunch of jokes in it and they sure are funny. When Mr. Reiser writes his next book he should put less baby jokes in it. The book I got has jokes about funny stuff and funny people. There's this one joke, oh wait, I don't want to spoil it for you. Babyhood talks about babies and baby things and doesn't really talk too much about other stuff. If you want a book full of funny stuff, get 100 funny jokes and get it on audio tape it's funnier than the book version. It's read by a guy who's super funny. He should have a T.V. show with Mr. Reiser called "Still Mad About You." That would be funny. I'll probably get Babyhood for my son Jimmy. He likes baby jokes. Although, Babyhood does have a couple of jokes, I didn't like the spots without the jokes, because they weren't funny, not even a little. Although I do appreciate large type books.
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Summary: This book's large type made it much easier to read
Review: This book's large type made it much easier to read that the version printed with a more stingy type. The fact that Paul has the consideration to print something for our less-sighted bretheren shows the true nature of this sub-humanitarian, although the book itself is a tribute from his big heart to our less-intelligent bretheren. Also, maybe in large type the peculiar liverpudlian inflections are more easy to remember. Despite all of his work for the death star, this guy still has his finger on the throat of america and won't stop doing it until he's met all of our expectorations. It's sure sad about his wife; While they may once have said paul is dead, his wife is now. Maybe future pop scholars will label this book, Parenthood, as commedia before the purgatoria about Linda Hunt's timely demise. May I suggest I title? Ex-Husbandhood? And keep the large type for the next work because I like to read this bard's books in the dark.
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Summary: Large print makes all the difference for an enjoyable read
Review: I disguise my taste for trash by reading large print books only. You see, large print editions make a book seem heavier, longer and more literary than some flimsy paperback or normal text edition. I simply fashion a plain cover from a brown paper bag to disguise the book's true identity. I then write the name of a more substantial author, in this case Camus, in fancy handwriting across the front. I am then free to luxuriate in the cheap and easy thrills of Paul Reiser's delightful opus without the risk of being shunned by my over-educated, hyper-literate, painfully high-brow colleagues. Thanks, Mr. Reiser, for publishing your wonderful work in large print & thus ensuring access to all.
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Summary: THROW AWAY YOUR BIBLE!
Review: This is all the Good Book you need. My wife and I are still trying to figure out how Paul Reiser knows so much about OUR private life. If you know anyone who is thinking of getting pregnant, pregnant, just had a baby, has ever been a baby, or has ever even thought of having sex, buy them this book!
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Summary: Kudos to Mr. Reiser
Review: I'd never really liked Mr. Reiser before and his television show left me cold. But my good friend Jeff , who's taste I trust, told me that I had to read this book. He said it was totally phoenomenal and really not that expensive (which it wasnt).Oh God..what a revelation. I couldn't put the book down. As I lay in bed, next to my lovely wife Laura, I almost felt guilty starting this book. But the upon reading the "Universal truths #2...Expecting father shalt let himself go and grow a beard. Heh heh... I couldnt help but laugh uncontrolably. So much so, that my wife had me read the book out loud. We were up till 3 AM laughing hysterically. Thank you Mr. Reiser, for bringing a little laughter into our household.
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Summary: I wish I could give it 6 stars
Review: Thank goodness for Mr. Paul Reiser. Babyhood is definitely the best of all the hood books. He should have called it "Funnyhood" because that's exactly where it takes me every time I read it! I feel like I know him, and that's a good feeling!
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Summary: Reising the roof on comedy.
Review: In a word: Wow. Fantastic. Life altering. Paul Reiser's prose is like an ice pick, slicing through the soft mushy layers of denial to poke right at the REAL truths. Babyhood takes suburban yuppie and angst and turns it not only on its head, but actually inside out, revealing its innards to the cruel world. Using his Mad About You meditations as a spring board, Reiser bellows in the ear of a slumbering, self-satisfied leisure class, to WAKE UP, Babyhood is upon us. No family is complete with a copy of Babyhood, especially in the large print edition.
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