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Summary: Does a bear,,,? Will you laugh?
Review: Bears do, and you will. The advice may not help you -- may not have helped Dr. Verne, for that matter -- but this is self-help with an attitude. The perfect antidote to Martha Stewart. The perfect read after a bad day at the office -- or the used car lot.
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Summary: the perfect antidote to jeff foxworthy
Review: For anyone who's read their share of humor books, you know that most only redeem themselves when the oil pan on the F-150 is leaking and you need something to soak up the mess. But "Dr. Verne's Northern White Trash Etiquette" is different. It consistently makes you laugh -- hard. It's pretty obvious what separates Dr. Verne from other so-called humor writers: He's actually funny. Read just one page and you'll know you're a redneck -- or Jeff Foxworthy -- if you disagree. In both celebrating and sending up a truly underappreciated culture, the book provides the perfect primer for anyone who's never been to Stevens Point. Whether it's detailing more and better ways to collect worker's comp or justifying why scorin' with your Old Lady's sister is an inalienable right, this guide to the Northern White Trash is perfectly realized satire. Better still, you can read it in one trip to the bathroom. Just goes to show what a writer can do when his name isn't Dave Barry.
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Summary: the perfect antidote to jeff foxworthy
Review: For anyone who's read their share of humor books, you know that most only redeem themselves when the oil pan on the F-150 is leaking and you need something to soak up the mess. But "Dr. Verne's Northern White Trash Etiquette" is different. It consistently makes you laugh -- hard. It's pretty obvious what separates Dr. Verne from other so-called humor writers: He's actually funny. Read just one page and you'll know you're a redneck -- or Jeff Foxworthy -- if you disagree. In both celebrating and sending up a truly underappreciated culture, the book provides the perfect primer for anyone who's never been to Stevens Point. Whether it's detailing more and better ways to collect worker's comp or justifying why scorin' with your Old Lady's sister is an inalienable right, this guide to the Northern White Trash is perfectly realized satire. Better still, you can read it in one trip to the bathroom. Just goes to show what a writer can do when his name isn't Dave Barry.
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Summary: Verne masters the art of trash
Review: I have to admit that I was a tab bit 'ascared' to pick up Dr. Verne's Northern White Trash Etiquette for fear someone would believe I had more to learn. But once I had it in hand, I couldn't put it down. Pages flew until I discovered the help I needed to straighten out my love life. '10 Tips for Women Who's Ascared of Getting Stuck With a Loser' has become my bible. I now know how to determine if the man I'm seeing is a regular pervert or a gentleman pervert. (He's a gentleman. I have the pastel plastic pearls to prove it!) But best of all, even with all of this learning going on, Verne has me in stitches. The good doctor knows his trash and puts all other self-help gurus to shame. It's a must read for the humor hungry, so be prepared to laugh.
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Summary: Guilty pleasures
Review: If you're weary of the ceaseless barrage of insipid self-help texts, "Dr. Verne's Northern White Trash Etiquette" may be your antidote. This is a dangerously funny self-help parody filled with guilty pleasures. It's not an easy book to describe, since Dr. Verne -- once described as the "anti-Dr. Laura" -- is intent upon a multi-pronged attack of the funny bone. It's at once a satire, an Archie Bunkeresque comedy and a romping probe of the rarely explored northern branch of the white trash species. And while it's decidedly anti-P.C., it doesn't have a nasty, Rush Limbaugh sentiment. Edstrom also uses his ample wit to make the narrator a self-parody. "Dr. Verne's Northern White Trash Etiquette" is essentially a series of short essays and stories spliced with Q&A advice from his newspaper column. Chapter titles range from "Earn Jack & Score Chicks Through the Lost Art of Kidnapping" to "10 Tips for Women Who's Ascared of Getting Stuck with a Loser." If there's a minor criticism, it's that the humor occasionally gets a tad too low-brow, as one might expect from this topic. Yet this does little to detract from a smart, laugh-out-loud style. This is arguably one of the funniest books of the year.
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Summary: If You're After a Good Laugh, Look no Farther!
Review: My first confession is that I don't read a ton of humor-related books. My second, however, is that I love Dr. Verne's Northern White Trash Etiquette. I picked up a copy after a friend highly recommended it. It took me a page or two to get used to the writing style, but the book quickly swept me up with its clever and original humor. It had me laughing for several days! The author has an amazing ability to render any kind of situation humorous. He (or she?) makes a mockery of all the self-help books by using a similar formula to give guidance to "white trash." Note: This is a wide group, ranging inept burglars to Spandex-hating, husband-beating women. Don't take the book seriously as it's not meant to be a commentary on society or anything similar. It's simply a funny, funny read. I can't relate it to anything else because it's so fresh and imaginative. But I would recommend it without hesitation to anyone who enjoys a good laugh. It's truly a fun read, one not to be missed.
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Summary: The joke's on us
Review: This book is a hoot! Dr. Verne is the consummate hick that we middle class, college-educated, Dockers-wearing, designer-beer-drinking, snobs love to look down on. Since Dr. Verne dumps on us, the joke's on us. How one man could come up with such an encyclopedic compendium of steriotypes for both groups is amazing. No wonder he's got his doctorate. I see my world differently now. I hear Dr. Verne commenting on my habits and haunts and realized Dr. Verne is my shadow self. It's scary but enlightening -- and a lot of fun.
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Summary: A lot of Truth
Review: This book is irreverently funny, particularly the part about treating your mother and father with respect if you ever expect to inherit the family's F-150 pickup. Hey, I own an F-150. My son laughed like crazy about that one. If you are looking for some fun, reading this book is a good choice; however, if you have trouble with sexual innuendos (spelling?)or a little foul language here and there, you may want to skip it.
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Summary: Very funny
Review: This book takes on two ripe targets: white trash and yuppies, and does so simultaneously in a clever and brazen way. It's one of those rare books that makes fun of everything in its path, even the book itself. It's kind of an Archie Bunker meets Michael Moore sort of thing. And it's really, really funny.
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Summary: I laughed my hiney off
Review: Though the title says it's for "Northern White Trash," the humor is applicable to anyone who doesn't mind laughing at themselves, or, better yet, at yuppified suburbanites. Dr. Verne mixes some replies to questions from readers with the kind of life lessons you won't get from Dr. Laura or Martha Stewart. Like how to fake a back injury so you can run a workers comp scam or classy all-you-can-eat places to go on a first date.
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