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Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S.
by Boese, Alex
A Guided Tour Through the Mine Field of Modern Fakery The title comes from a story that spread around the world about a circus dwarf who bounced off a trampoline right into the mouth of a hippo that was also part of the show. |
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Messiah of Morris Avenue, The
by Hendra, Tony
A Modern Messiah Battles the Media Age Hendra's book may be a sendup on modern religion, but it's just as if not more pious in its own way than many straight-up religious tales (like the Left Behind series which he even gives a sardonic nod here). Fortunately, the down-to-earth nature of the hero makes it all quite palatable. |
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Candyfreak
by Almond, Steve
Candy Porn You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll salivate. Part food memoir, part social history, this is easily the most satisfying book of the year. |
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Tourist Season
by Hiaasen, Carl
A Local Classic With Something For Everyone Tourist Season, one of Hiaasen's early novels that helped put him (and South Florida) on the literary map, is every bit as loud and outrageous as its South Florida setting. He takes all of the clichés of the tropical paradise image of Florida and turns them upside down, making them dark and deadly. |
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Honey Don't
by Sandlin, Tim
How to Blow the Presidency For a wacked-out, joy-buzzer, cocaine-addled literary thrill ride, read Tim Sandlin's cockeyed satire of Presidential sex Save Hillary's memoirs for the sober moments. |
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Openly Bob
by Smith, Bob
Jokey but keenly observed takes on gay and family lives It seems that he comes by his optimism naturally, since his mother tells his sister, "Just because you're coming home for your father's funeral, doesn't mean that we can't have fun." |
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
by Sedaris, David
Guaranteed to Make You Laugh Me Talk Pretty One Day covers much of Sedaris's childhood and young adulthood to the present, as he learns to adapt to life as a gay man, beginning in grade school in a small North Carolina town where he learns to talk about sports teams because, “You could turn up your nose at the president or Coke or even God, but there were names for boys who didn't like sports.” |
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Pearl of Kuwait, The
by Paine, Tom
War is Funny as Hell Dude, I'm like totally stoked about this gnarly Gulf War novel! |
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The Museum of Hoaxes
by Boese, Alex
Public Pranks Alex Boese has a weird hobby—relating other people's fakes and the innocence of those who believe in them—but you'll find yourself drawn into the game within a couple of pages. |
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21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com
by Daisey, Mike
Bitchin' Mission Statements Do Not A Good Job Make Mike Daisey fell in love with the vision of Amazon. Somehow, however, Daisey never fell in love with the actual work he was to perform, and he eventually realized how much he disliked his job. Let’s put things in perspective: it would be as if you were desperate to be married, had gotten married, and realized that your spouse was a reprehensible turd. |
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