Brain Droppings

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Summary: "Brain Droppings" a great read and a great laugh
Review: Definitely a book for Carlin's fans, not for the light-hearted....it's 258 pages are filled with thoughts, jokes, insights, and other Carlin-isms. It's also made up of mainly new material, only the classics "A Place for my Stuff" and "Baseball and Football" being repeated from the past. Carlin, with his unique view of life and society retells common situation with hilarious and true humour. Finally a comic who makes you laugh...and think

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Summary: Fans will be disappointed. All others amused.
Review: Having been a huge follower of his work, I've heard just about every monologue he's ever done. I first heard of this book when he went on the radio promoting it as the material he might not live to deliver. Sad to say, it isn't. Most of the book is rehashed material from his old performances and are jumbled about in the form of disjointed, unrelated one-liners that are too forced to be funny. On occasion, he falls back into form and begins new rants in his classic outrageous style, but these moments are brief, occupying maybe 10% of the book. The whole debacle left me feeling like I had just watched a rerun of his tv show where he tried too hard to be funny and ended up caging the comic madman that he truly is. This book makes Carlin seem like a profane Dave Barry.

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Summary: I really enjoy George Carlin doing a stand-up comedy routine
Review: the thing that is missing out of this book is
the way george carlin delivers a joke when
he does a stand-up routine. I could'nt
finish the book - I got tired of his constant
whining

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Summary: Absolutely Intelligent Humor
Review: The funniest book yet I've read in 1997.
The humor certainly is quite "tongue and cheek" at times and the book is written in a way that seem Carlin is entertaining right in your own home !
A must read!
Jessica Cossaboom (jdcoss.hotmail.com

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Summary: Classic Carlin
Review: George shows us that he's still got it in his latest book. Still funny after all these years. Not a book for the easily offended, nor for hospital reading, especially if you have stitches! I found this out the hard way. Great quick reads

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Summary: You Must Buy This Book!
Review: Carlin cranks out some of his best material in this book. The pages contain sharp,unrepenting humor as well as hard,swift logic. Carlin gives a honest viewpoint on how and why this country is going down the toilet while and the same time laughing at it,too. I am a BIG George Carlin fan and I love this book. You must buy it. It's great,great reading

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Summary: what happened?
Review: I used to love George Carlin, but this book?! What a disappointment. I could forgive the mostly weak humor if it weren't backed with such bitterness and bile! It reads more like the rantings of a sour Ebenezer Scrooge, than the insightful observations of a keen satirist. My advice? Buy one of Carlin's old albums instead. Now those are funny!

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Summary: George Carlin - The Master of Comedy
Review: Let me just say that this book came at a great time when I needed something to read late at night and make me laugh out loud until I woke the annoying neighbors up next door. George, you are the master of comedy and I admire you and your brilliant writting. You are a pleasure to read, and hear! Truly one of the funniest and most inspiring comics today. What is so amazing about this book is that it is not only funny, many of Georges ideas....make sense! Believe it or not....I found myself agreeing with him many times. Thank you for the laughs George. For you I have nothing but praise!!!

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Summary: Cold, Bitter and Not Funny
Review: Carlin's humor does not transfer well to text. He comes across bitter, hateful and humorless. His take on the English language is often amusing and some of his lists are funny, but the humor and "insights" were minimal. This book disappointed me greatly.

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Summary: More proof that Carlin is a comedy master
Review: Knock you on yer butt pee your pants funny... bottom lin