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Summary: I love stumbling across little gems likes this one!!
Review: On a non-related Amazon search I stumbled across this book. I was compelled to read it due to the excellent reviews it had received. And after reading it, I am glad to report that Cosmic Banditos is one of the coolest books I have ever read. I am not one to normally laugh out loud when reading, but this book was the exception. I couldn't keep the chuckles in! The author manages to meld two completely non-related subjects of drug running and quantum mechanics into a seamless and captivating tale. This book is a must buy for people who enjoy out of the norm books, or those who just want a change from the more serious titles usually found on best seller lists. Heck this book should be a must buy for ANYBODY who likes to laugh, period!
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Summary: ...and stuff also
Review: In 1991 this book was given to me by a fellow hitchhicker.I was traveling(21 year old single hippy chick)within South Africa,exploring.....life,the universe and everything.I read this book back to back continuesly over and over again for months,until I found someone else that needed to read it,lost track of my book and found it very very sad that I couldn,t laugh my arse off anymore.I started searching for the book again when I started hearing about the whole internet thing....still a bit off anet idiot but got friends to check for me.Disapiontment when I heard it was out of print.A friend found it this year for me.THANK YOU AMAZON>COM and mr Weisbecker.Could u please find yourself a website cause people like me would like to chat to you!MEAUW PRRRR AND ALL THAT OTHER GOOD STUFF
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Summary: Kind of disappointing
Review: Based on the reviews about this book, I decided to check it out. There is an Internet site that has the first 4 chapters online, so I read a couple of the chapters and could not stop laughing. So I bought the book. Then I read the rest. This book is not bad by any means, but it is hampered by Weisbecker's inside jokes and heavy handed humor. A little subtlety really does go a long way, but I don't think Weisbecker knows that. The last few chapters read like one of Hunter S. Thompson's articles and that's not necessarily a complement. The story just takes huge leaps in logic that are hard to reconcile. I would recommend this book to people who are sci-fi fans or love Monty Python, but the rest of you may want to check it out before buying.
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Summary: "The Book" Lives On!
Review: The book was out of print so long I never thought I'd get to read it again. I could ony describe it to others as funnier than Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I once read excerpts of this book to my friends on a road trip from Omaha to St. Louis. It was one huge belly laugh after another. We were forced to change drivers or simply stop several times due to unconsolable fits of laughing/blinding tears. I loaned the book to a friend and never got it back. Now it has been reprinted. I have ordered a new copy and will never let it go!! I'm looking forward to another road trip.
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Summary: Literatures Greatest Work!!
Review: I first read this book in 1986, when as a student, I acquired an advance copy of it, complete with typo's and spelling errors. Since then, Cosmic Bandito's has taken on the status of a Gutenberg Bible with me.This tells a relatively straight forward story (hah, hah) of a Dope Smuggler's quest for cosmic philosophic enlightenment thru quantum mechanics, massive quantities of tequila, gratuitous use of high explosives, and a dog. Thus setting Weisbecker up to be my spiritual mentor. Don't laugh, the author somehow makes it all work. Weisbecker managed to get thru a philosophy degree, several physics classes and 10 years in the military with the power of his admittedly distorted vision. To illustrate how this works, lets use the Uncertainty Principle, typically taught with the use of Schrodinger's Cat. Weisbecker uses the Bandito Uncertainty principle, with the Observer only being able to see the outside of the Bandito filled tavern, when energy is applied (in the form of Tequila, and Dope) you can see the results visibly as Banditos are launched thru the tavern windows, or out the tavern doors. If, however, the Observer was to enter the Tavern, he or she would immediately impede the progress of the experiment as they would be in the way of flying Banditos. This may not be for everyone, but I can assure you that once you read this book, you will never ever forget it. In closing, I must make note of how Weisbecker has pioneered the footnote into a whole new form of literary genre. His use of the Time Traveling Footnote (TTF) has guaranteed him a place in the hall of literary heroes.
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Summary: "Aaahhhh!"
Review: This book is currently my Favorite Book of All Time. It has everything--Tequila, Doggy Sneese Attacks, Nymphomaniacs and Albert Einstein (just to mention a few). It's laugh-out-loud funny, but is also deep and personally reflective at times. I think anyone who reads this book will have their Worldview shaken up. If you know someone who takes themself a little too seriously, this book could be therapy for them. It makes me wonder what my life would've been like if I had never bought this book. Maybe somewhere in another dinension I am wandering around without "Cosmic Banditos." That would be a shame. I definitely recommend getting your hands on this book...... Good luck banditos.
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Summary: So many fantastic collours
Review: I think that the book is one of the best I have ever read. It's a new way to explain hardcore theories, and also a very reallistic picture of the real underground drug commerce. It vanishes our ilusion of well organized "Mafia", and shows us the real bandito way of life as it is. ( I am from South america - Caramba!)
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Summary: Is it really you?
Review: Jase el Bastid, for pete's sake drop me a line - I'm emigrating in six months so let's get together before then. How long's it been? Please let the rumours of a Cosmic Banditos reprint be true ... james.barbour@fnmail.com
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Summary: Grenades & the art of diesel engine maintenance
Review: Fantastic book, a real treasure. I borrowed it from a friend of a friend who was studying @ Dundee University (UK) - i've lost touch & feel really really guilty that I still have it.......cosmic_bandito@hotmail.com to claim your book!
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Summary: Gentlemen: Start your Engines!
Review: For a book that I picked up in the $1.00 cut-out bin of a B. Dalton, it is the best short novel I've ever read. I passed it on & now would like another copy. If there is any way to get this book reprinted, we need to find out how to make it happen.
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