Evolution Man : Or How I Ate My Father (Vintage Contemporaries)

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Summary: Lewis redivivus
Review: We first read this book in Kenya in the early 60s, while we were working on the archaeology of early man. Subsequently my husband taught anthropology (Plio-Pleistocene archaeology) at U.C. Berkeley and used it as a text to lighten his Introduction to Archaeology classes. As "practitioners" we found it hilarious and amazingly insightful, and it has continued to provide amusement ever since. Our battered paperback has long needed replacement, and is shelved where it cannot be permanently borrowed by an envious reader. PLEASE reprint in English. I always wanted to ask Mr. Lewis if he had modelled Father after Dr. Louis Leakey.... Another light-hearted and well-informed view of evolution is the Larry Gonick "History of Everything, Including Sex"

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Summary: Brilliant, Side-Splitting Look At Family Life
Review: You MUST read this book if you are into parenting, humor and/or family books. The ingenious concept of critiquing "modern" (circa 1960) life in the stone age is thoroughly explored and carried out with grace, insight, intelligence and literally laugh-out-loud humor. Truly a one-of-a-kind book. I read it in my small-town library in the late 60s and was so surprised it had been re-published. Thank god. If you're looking for another hilarious, smart and offbeat book about family life, try "I Sleep At Red Lights: A True Story of Life After Triplets," by Bruce Stockler.