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Title: Rants by Dennis Miller ISBN: 0-385-47802-X Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 14 April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.18 (49 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Rant On, Dennis!
Comment: This collection of rants from Dennis Miller is generally excellent and topical social commentary. Written long before 9/11 and his coming of age as a more conservative voice, this is a fairly libertarian, rational, and practical look at life in the United States. There are a few areas that I disagree with him on, but I am not recommending that anyone think a certain way, just that people hear different concepts with an open mind and make their own decisions. In this book you can see the seeds of Miller's conservatism, although it is clear that he has been awakened and revitalized by the events of 9/11 and is thus more conservative now than when this book was written.
Overall, this is a neat summary of Miller's world view as it existed in 1996. His gift of satire is preeminent in the world today, and while probably everyone will find something in this book to provoke or annoy them, at least it insists on the reader thinking for themselves. I would have given this book five stars except for the fairly frequent profanity. I know this is adapted from some of his HBO material, but the book could be used for a much younger audience to excellent effect if not for the language. Excellent job overall: highly recommended for people of any political leaning.
Rating: 4
Summary: Genius...
Comment: The Rants is all the best of Dennis Miller's most hilarious social commentary. He is one of the very few people in comedy (George Carlin and Chris Rock also come to mind) that present us with extremely funny material, while also making us think. It's intelligent, witty, and most important...funny. I laughed out loud multiple times throughout the read. He hits on things such as education, sports in America, religion, and a variety of other topics. Most of these are serious issues, but he makes us laugh about them. While I don't agree with 100% of his beliefs, Miller makes such good points and convincing arguements that I can't help but respect his point of view. He is a great comedian and social critic, and this book is a compilation of some of his best work. I highly recommend it. The only reason it receives 4 stars instead of 5 is due to the fact that it is a DIRECT transcript of the opening rants performed on his show on HBO, most of which I'd already seen on television. I would've liked to see more material native to the book. Also, it went too fast! I blasted through it in one evening. All in all, a terrific book, and all fans of Dennis Miller should own a copy.
Rating: 1
Summary: Pure Genius, Smartest man alive, simply hilarious, a god
Comment: Obviously, 9/11 has had a deep impact on Miller and his comedy. The conservative pundits had already established a successful cottage industry on cable during the profitable Clinton-Lewinsky period. But after 9/11, the conservative talking head business went thru the roof, and Miller was smart enough to latch on to that rocket. When he compares the French people's smell to an "overflow dumpster at an El Segundo Jack In The Box after Menudo just visited with the entire cast of Hong Kong Phooey", you really have to wonder if he may be God.
With his spastic headbobbing and non-sensical comparisons of the Clinton White House to the Banana Splits riding the bumper cars at Knotts Berry farm, or to Carrottop leading the Bolshoi ballet in a production of Josey and the Pussycats, or to Captain and Tenille running the BBQ pit at a Flatts and Scruggs concert, etc., Miller has carved himself a unique niche in the overcrowded field of right-leaning cable yakkety-yakkers. His new CNBC talk show should provide some added balance to the other 30 or 40 other right-leaning talk-shows on cable.
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Title: Ranting Again by Dennis Miller ISBN: 038548853X Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: I Rant, Therefore I Am by Dennis Miller ISBN: 076790575X Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Rant Zone : An All-Out Blitz Against Soul-Sucking Jobs, Twisted Child Stars, Holistic Loons, and People Who Eat Their Dogs! by Dennis Miller ISBN: 0060505370 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Rants Redux by Dennis Miller ISBN: 0553456571 Publisher: Random House Audio Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Brain Droppings by George Carlin ISBN: 0786883219 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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