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Rating: Summary: What's not to like? Review: If you don't like this book you have no sense of humor, whatsoever. This book is completely outrageous and an unashamed good time.
Go with it and have fun!
Rating: Summary: Ned Helped Write This Review Review: To be completely upfront about it, I have a story in this collection. Any writer worth his keyboard is going to tell you that his is the best story in the collection. I can't honestly say that -- the quality of the stories is remarkably high. Even more amazing is that there isn't a single total dog in the whole collection, an event rarer than a solar eclipse. This is not for those who sip their tea with dainty pinky extended, this is for somebody who finds humor in someone putting away a six-pack and belching the first stanza of a country-western song.I was afraid, with the guidelines, that the stories might seem redundant, and several elements were used more than once -- the lethality of stomach gas and halitosis, for instance -- but the treatments were different enough that I didn't get the feeling "here we go again." There were so many bizarre and inventive stories that to choose one is difficult, but perhaps the story of the really lonely guy who built himself a woman out of Spam was one of the best, and pretty illustrative of the sort of outrageous humor that makes this book a pleasure to read. Some shyer types may want to take the cover off John Grisham novel to hide the fact that they're not among the brain-washed, but for the rest of us, the cover was part of the fun.
Rating: Summary: Ned Helped Write This Review Review: To be completely upfront about it, I have a story in this collection. Any writer worth his keyboard is going to tell you that his is the best story in the collection. I can't honestly say that -- the quality of the stories is remarkably high. Even more amazing is that there isn't a single total dog in the whole collection, an event rarer than a solar eclipse. This is not for those who sip their tea with dainty pinky extended, this is for somebody who finds humor in someone putting away a six-pack and belching the first stanza of a country-western song. I was afraid, with the guidelines, that the stories might seem redundant, and several elements were used more than once -- the lethality of stomach gas and halitosis, for instance -- but the treatments were different enough that I didn't get the feeling "here we go again." There were so many bizarre and inventive stories that to choose one is difficult, but perhaps the story of the really lonely guy who built himself a woman out of Spam was one of the best, and pretty illustrative of the sort of outrageous humor that makes this book a pleasure to read. Some shyer types may want to take the cover off John Grisham novel to hide the fact that they're not among the brain-washed, but for the rest of us, the cover was part of the fun.
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