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Summary: If You're Looking This Up And Don't Have It, Buy It NOW
Review: If you are visiting this item in the Amazon.com online catalogue, then something special brought you here. You already know of the book, perhaps already own it, and you want to see what other say about it -- or you know nothing about it. If the latter is the case, something lucky and/or magic brought you here, and you owe it to yourself to BUY THIS BOOK NOW. Maybe you heard some snippet about it, or glanced at a copy while visiting a friend. Whatever the case, SOMETHING in your psyche drew you to this fantastic volume of fantasy and art, and you absolutely need to have a copy in your home. People drawn to Zany Afternoons, regardless of the reason, have bigger, funnier, more open and creative minds than everyone else in the world, and the common bond we all share is the book itself. Detachable pants cuffs, five-in-one food paste, tank polo -- these are the creative/artistic concepts embraced by those of us who have been chosen by nature to live on Earth and put the "life" in "lifetime." If you're here, buy it now. You'll know why, after it arrives.
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Summary: Remarkable creative wit
Review: Man I first laid eyes on this book while skimming the shelves of my hometown public library in December, 1983. Dumbfounded, I checked it out and took it home. Incidentally, later that day the postman brought my acceptance letter to college (UC Berkeley), and an hour or so after that I had my first set-up date with a girl I had a big crush on, who's been together with me now for 15 years. I actually don't think these fateful events colored my reading of Zany Afternoons. Just thought you might enjoy the coincidence.From "Autogyro Jousting" to "Nazi Regalia for Gracious Living," this book is a fabulous parody of splashy print promotions from a bygone era. McCall's humor, dry and relentless, brought no end of giggling around my house. I would awaken in the night laughing. I renewed the book a few times before reluctantly turning it in. After that I learned just how hard it is to find this book. Four years later when I was a senior at Berkeley I spotted it in a set of coffee table books at the Morrison Library, where as if by bureaucratic miracle students are allowed to do only recreational reading as they luxuriate in big overstuffed chairs. I revisted that book several times that year and haven't seen it since. And I think the time has come to get my own copy.
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Summary: The delight of generations!
Review: My Zany father loved this book. After college whenever I visited, I dug it out. It passed to me when he did, and now when my kids come back from college they dig it out. It always seems to find its way back to the coffee table. When a newcomer peeks in you hear the supressed giggles and chuckles. Mike Lower
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Summary: madcap hijinks
Review: This is one of the most hilarious, quirky and sharp books I have ever laid eyes on.(Indoor golf? Zeppelin shooting, anyone?) Every page is filled to capacity with ridiculous illustrations (ads for enormous fifties cars that dwarf the driver, advertising for the H.M.S. Tyrannic, a cruise ship so large you can't see the other side) and the copy is among the finest and funniest I have ever read. Find this book wherever you must and show it to everyone
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