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Summary: Intelligent, Poignant, Crude and Hilarious
Review: Full of laugh-out-loud moments, the White House Inc. Employee Handbook is a brilliant and much needed satire. It is also a refreshing, genuinely creative addition to the increasingly stale library of liberal-authored republican bashing books. The authors do a superb job of supercharging their humor with intelligence and insight. Clearly these guys have done their research and write from the perspective of a deranged Whitehouse insider. It is absolutely worth the 11 bucks, and absolutely worth a read.
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Summary: Could have been funnier
Review: Here's an idea that, while good, is very difficult to sustain at the length provided in this volume! Of the four authors, there are two much funnier and nastier than the remaining two, and so about half the book's contents fall somewhat flat. You will have better luck dipping into the book at random rather than trying to read it straight through.The Bush II Whitehouse is such an indescribably strange place that I am not sure the reality is not far stranger than the parodies found here. No presidential administration within my fairly long memory (going back to FDR) has been so completely and blatantly a captive of big business and the craziest elements of the far-right, or has dared to adopt a foreign policy based on simple, naked and unprovoked agression against weak nations with oil. Nor have we had a previous president so completely disinterested in and ignorant of the world around him, unless you want to go all the way back to Warren G. Harding. In short, we have a situation where you have to laugh to keep from crying, and this book does help a lot to find some laughs amidst the tears.
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Summary: Read the site, leave the book
Review: How to read this book.
Step 1: Go to your local bookstore and find the book.
Step 2: Read "most" of the book while at the store (most jokes are repetitive)
Step 3: Leave the store without buying the book.
If you follow those steps you'll feel happy that you got to read it and the knowledge that you didn't waste your money on it.
Atleast that's what I did, after reading a few of the reviews on here.
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Summary: Expected more...
Review: I have been a follower of whitehouse.org for a while but I was very dissapointed with this book. It's an interesting idea but the jokes are not the innovative ones that I would expect. It had potential but fell short of it. The should stick to their website and hold off on the books for a while
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Summary: Over and Over Again
Review: I normal trust the reviews on Amazon more then I did for this book. Many of the reviews rate the book as middle of the road yet the web site is so funny, I was sure I would find the book as humorous. And for the first 30 or so pages I was dead on, it was a laugh riot. I just kept laughing out loud. The sly low key and in your face humor was equally side splitting. The authors were able, at least in the first section of the book, to take the attitude from the web site and use it in this White House employee manual parody. Unfortunately for me, and I would assume many readers, the fresh, sharp humor started to get stale. There is only so many times you can beat that horse and they did not stop. On and on about how the Bush team was out to get richer, destroy the environment and scrap any social program going.
At about page 100 I started to skip sections and hoped the end was near. The lack of originality and new material really started to sour me on the whole book and even a bit on the original web site its self. I am sure that is the exact opposite reaction the authors were looking for. I also started to get a bit turned off by the rather in your face sexism and not so hidden racism. I know it was all part of the parody, but is was a bit much. Lastly the whole pro life / pro choice comments were a bit too edgy for me. Overall my opinion is that this is a perfect book to pick up used and read a chapter every other month. The bits you forget will make the book less repetitive and stale.
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Summary: extremely funny and informative
Review: I picked this book up in the bookstore and kept giggling out loud and my husband told me to get it to quit embarrasing him in public. He is a Bush man but enjoyed the parts I read aloud, although he'd never admit to it. The White House floor plans are a hoot. The small details in this book, such as the secret service man's quote and Bush's nicknames for all the world's power players, are what make it hilarious. I'm sure the First Pets aren't as bad as they are depicted. This is wonderfully humorous political satire and well worth purchasing.
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Summary: In Hilarious Humor is revealed the Terrifying Truth:
Review: I see that the frightened Bush lap dogs have already come snarling. In contradistinction to them, I've actually read this fabulous book. It is - by far - the funniest book I've devoured in a long while. In ripping the coy illusions spun by Karl Rove (and dutifully parroted by our truth-adverse President) into colorful confetti and creating an outrageous, unvarnished version of the Bush White House, this book comes perilously close to revealing the nastiest and most deceitful administration in the history of our great country. While you with howl with laughter, your joy will be tempered by the realization that this book's less amusing, more conniving counterpart truly exists in Washington.
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Summary: Impressive and HYSTERICAL
Review: I was pretty skeptical when I picked this up, but I have to say, this really is an amazingly well-crafted piece of STINGING political satire. The writer SKEWERS the entire Bush klan with no mercy. It's definitely R-Rated fare though, so I wouldn't let the kiddies at it. But if you're craving a wickedly hilarious election year read, I think this definitely belongs on our short list. (Unless you're Barbara Bush, in which case this book justm ight make your head explode!)
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Summary: Impressive and HYSTERICAL
Review: I was pretty skeptical when I picked this up, but I have to say, this really is an amazingly well-crafted piece of STINGING political satire. The writer SKEWERS the entire Bush klan with no mercy. It's definitely R-Rated fare though, so I wouldn't let the kiddies at it. But if you're craving a wickedly hilarious election year read, I think this definitely belongs on our short list. (Unless you're Barbara Bush, in which case this book justm ight make your head explode!)
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Summary: Franken does it better
Review: I wouldn't waste my 'hard-earned American dollars' on this one again if I had the choice--someone like Al Franken just does it better, making fun of our fearless leader in his political satire more consistently.
I was disappointed by this book. Like the website. Thought the book could have been much, much funnier.
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