The Rant Zone : An All-Out Blitz Against Soul-Sucking Jobs, Twisted Child Stars, Holistic Loons, and People Who Eat Their Dogs!

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Summary: Dennis The Menace
Review: It's easy to visualize these chapters as monologue bits, although stand-up comedy often loses its charm when translated to print. Miller is an articulate, highly-intelligent man with doses of humanity behind the never-ending angry/sarcastic persona. The bits do indeed become repetitive after a while, and although occasional rays of light are shone on Miller's personal life--giving us the most subtle of hints as to why he is the way he is--most of the book is a continuous rant about everything from sports to politics to religion to entertainment to sex. The language and graphic nature of Miller's material is just this side of off-putting at times, although he's self-deprecating enough to balance it out. A quick read, which is a good thing--if the book were any longer, it would be too long.

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Summary: cheaper than toilet paper at 48 cents
Review: It's nice to see that this book has found it's price point. Dennis Miller is about as funny as colon cancer. Someone outta put a rubberband around this guys head so it'll shrivel up and fall off.

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Summary: Stick With Cable-TV
Review: Miller has now delved into movies, network television, and print. Virtually all of those endeavors have produced nothing but embarrassing additions to his body of work. Three strikes and you're out Dennis. Do a favor for your potential fans and stick with what you're good at -- monologues on cable-TV. This book is vulgar, not the least bit entertaining, and gives the impression that it was thrown together in a very short time. In fact, it is so bad that I wouldn't be surprised if Miller did nothing more than allow his name to be associated with this sham of an effort.

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Summary: Stick With Cable-TV
Review: Miller has now delved into movies, network television, and print. Virtually all of those endeavors have produced nothing but embarrassing additions to his body of work. Three strikes and you're out Dennis. Do a favor for your potential fans and stick with what you're good at -- monologues on cable-TV. This book is vulgar, not the least bit entertaining, and gives the impression that it was thrown together in a very short time. In fact, it is so bad that I wouldn't be surprised if Miller did nothing more than allow his name to be associated with this sham of an effort.

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Summary: Outrageous fun!!
Review: Miller's cultural observations are hysterical! Nobody's safe from his barbs, nothing's off limits. His diatribes on public education & Hollywood are especially funny. (For more derisive commentary on schools & Tinsel Town, though, read "No One's Even Bleeding"). The thing I like best about Dennis is his willingness to goof on himself as well as others. The "Rant Zone" is full of honest & biting wit, two essential ingredients for laughter.

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Summary: Dennis Is Going With What's Popular, But He's Behind
Review: Ok Ok. Maybe my first review of Dennis Miller's book was harsh, so I rewrote it. But what do you expect when reviewing a book from a person who talks complete nonsense?!! Dennis TRIES to be funny, but he fails miserably. Dennis is at his best, when he avoids leaning to the left or to the right. When he could praise and criticized BOTH sides when they deserved it, is when he shined. These days, Dennis has gone from common sense to a complete right-winger. I guess it because these days it's popular to bash Democrats and be a conservative. But I guarantee you, the time of the extreme left is dead and the extreme right will be dead in a few years. There's no place for either in the near future. I suspect that Dennis knows this, which explains why he is trying to seek office. LOL. He missed the boat 9 years ago to be an extreme conservative. Moderates are the ones who will control the political landscape in the future. Perhaps then, Dennis will get it right and become moderate once again. This book is basically him trying to cash in with the time.

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Summary: Ugly!
Review: Sorry, I've been a slavish fan of Dennis Miller for years and years and years, but this latest book of rants has a thread of really disturbing ugliness running through it. Mean spirited, angry, foul-mouthed ugliness, like a faint but persistent bad smell. Yes, yes, the much-vaunted free flowing wit is there, but I just found the reading disturbing. Dennis has been spending too much time in the bowels of the locker room with his new NFL friends. They, and men in general, will howl with laughter. I was amused in spots, of course, but overall I was disappointed.

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Summary: Every chapter an ace
Review: The joy of Miller's humor is he plays the whole course hard. I mean, this guy putts with a driver. Every chapter is an ace, every line soars straight down the fairway.

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Summary: This book is good for wrapping fish
Review: This book is marked down... Clearly that's still ...too much. Dennis Miller was somewhat funny once; now he's nothing but a flat chested Ann Coulter.

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Summary: Why must he be so filled with hate?
Review: Twenty years ago if you wanted to hear preachings of hate against most of the world's population, you might have had to attend a Klan rally or Neo-Nazi meeting. You certainly weren't going to see or hear it on television. But now, thanks to our "liberal media" (Ha ha) you can just flip on the government regulated hate box (Radio or TV, the choice is yours.) and be informed that as an American, you are part of the World's current master race. Dennis Miller appeared not once, but twice on the Jay Leno show in February to preach his hip brand of hate. You don't need to turn on the hate box for long these days to hear some hate-mongering toward France, and apparently, Dennis Miller and numerous other media pundits have forgotten that after the 9/11 attacks the French were the first nation to come to the aid of the U.S., flying combat missions in Afghanistan. It's interesting to note that these war-mongering super-patriots are never found anywhere near a battlefield. George W. Bush managed to avoid military service in Viet Nam, and I'm sure that Leno and Miller would have loved to serve in the military, but unfortunately it conflicted with their scheduled dates to play the Ha-Ha Club. Isn't it interesting that Leno always performs with an American flag in his lapel. Here's a guy who makes millions of dollars tearing down this country on a nightly basis, and somehow sees himself as a patriot. Here is the transcript of the first of the two appearances Miller made on Leno in February. I have to let you know that in his subsequent apperance on Leno, February 25th, Miller literally advocated criminal assaults on peace demonstrators!!! It's safe to say that Miller has a lot more in common with the thugs who took over Germany in the 1930's than he'd care to admit.