Coyote V. Acme

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Summary: very humorous
Review: it's nice to see a book that has varied topics, and has a satanist university president. he's very funny, but sort of dry at times. he uses complex thoughts, which is often hard to find in today's world. overall a good read

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Summary: Dangerously funny
Review: Mr. Frazier may be hearing from my attorneys soon, as I may have ruptured something laughing at the title story. That alone would be worth the price of the book, but the rest of it, while not always gut-wrenchingly hilarious, should not be read in a hospital corridor.

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Summary: Tremendously overrated
Review: Quite an irritating book. 22 essays, each containing only a single comic idea streeeeeeeeetched to fill even a few pages. I wasted $20 to get this when it first came out, thanks to all the overblown hype. Reviewers had the chutzpah to say this guy's as good as Woody Allen! Not a chance. Go read "Without Feathers" instead. Now THAT'S comedy.

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Summary: I found it boring. Read parts of it before you buy it!
Review: The only good essay in this book is the title story. The rest are either boring or understandable by people with backgrounds a lot different from mine. Frankly, I didn't "get" the point (humor) in many of the stories. I suggest you read a few of these essays before you buy the book

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Summary: I don't get it
Review: The title says it all. The only reason I didn't give this book a 1 rating is the mild amusement value of the overall ideas behind each of the essays. I found all of them bland and drawn out, almost entirely based on American pop culture, tediously overstated. Blech.

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Summary: Shame, shame, shame
Review: This book is excellent - an excellent example of bad writing. This book is hilarious - hilarious that people buy this stuff as legitimate humor. I'm all for satire, but let's be more responsible in our choice of targets. E.g. Octogenarian Bob Hope? To "pile on" this venerable comic smacks of bandwagon mentality. Sure he supported the Viet Nam War...I suppose next Frazier is going to criticize Henry Kissinger? Give me a break... The title piece pokes fun at our legal system. Frazier! Hello! It's a cartoon! Those injuries are not real! And a university president mouthing unmentionable satanic expressions? What kind of message does that send to the young people? In closing, methinks that Mr. Frazier is a little too much like the proverbial Wile E. Coyote ...always seeking the elusive bird (bard?) of fine literature and continually hoist by his own petard of gimmicky, nonsensical writing. He should remind himself that the cartoon is called "Roadrunner" - not "Coyote". I had a minor in literature in college, so I know from whence I speak.

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Summary: A very funny book
Review: This book is very funny, I would of given it a ten, But I didn't get all of the humor. I would highly recommend that you buy this book. Your family will love it!

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Summary: A Few Gems...
Review: This collection of twenty-two short humorous essays culled from The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthy is worth a quick glance on the strength of a few of the essays, but don't be tricked by the clever title or jacket into actually buying the book. The laugh-out-loud essays are: "Boswell's Life of Don Johnson," which satirizes Thomas Boswell's famous biography of the poet, "The Life of Samuel Johnson;" "Coyote v. Acme," which is a legal document outlining Wile E. Coyote's (of cartoon fame) lawsuit against the Acme Corporation; and "Thanks For the Memory." Each of these is based on a lone brilliant idea, quickly and artfully rendered before it gets too stale.

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Summary: A title for my review
Review: This is an extremely funny book. Funny, funny, funny. If you look up funny in the dictionary you will find this definition: seeking or intended to amuse. Nothing could better describe this book. It seeks...

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Summary: Too dry, too weird
Review: This was a quick and easy read in the car on the way to Florida. Unfortunately, I found more humor in watching people weaving in and out of traffic. If there is humor here, it is far too dry and too Intellectual for my enjoyment.