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Title: Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of the Onion by ROBERT SIEGEL, Onion Staff, The Onion ISBN: 0-609-80834-6 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 04 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.72 (29 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: You Can't Beat The Onion for Dark Humor
Comment: While just about every single word in this volume is reprinted from the weekly editions on The Onion's website, you still gotta love this book which you can take anywhere, and make people wonder while you're laughing so hard. Most people think The Onion is merely a political satire and humor magazine, but the way they make fun of current events is surprisingly deep and the dark, observational humor is often ingenious and even disturbing.
Headlines of note in this book are "ACLU Defends Nazis' Right to Burn Down ACLU Headquarters" in which The Onion finds the contradications in so-called political correctness (lest you think The Onion is all bleeding-heart leftists); "Columbine Jocks Safely Resume Bullying" in which The Onion can see the uncomfortable truth that nobody else wants to admit to; and "Hershey's Ordered to Pay Obese Americans $135 Billion" where we can see the irony and hypocrisy in lawsuits that people use to blame others for their problems.
To alleviate the heaviness, many of the articles are just plain slapstick humor, but always with an intelligent edge, like "Dolphins Evolve Opposable Thumbs", or "Casual One-Nighter Gives Strom Thurmond Change of Heart on Homosexuality Issue."
Whether the stories are just lightweight social satire, or downright disturbing and deeply insightful, they're mostly hysterical in the true Onion tradition. Even the pieces by the "guest columnists" can be deeper than expected. But in light of recent events, watch out for the stories "Terrorist Annoyed by Delayed Flight" and "Arabs, Israelis Sign 'Screw Piece' Accord". Some of this humor isn't for the easily disturbed or offended, that's for sure.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great, but not perfect
Comment: As I was reading the weekly issue of The Onion on their website a month ago, I saw this new book advertised. I've bought their first two books, so I picked it up on ... a little after it came out, and finished reading it yesterday. Unfortunately, we have another case of sequelitis here...
Don't get me wrong, this is a great book, but it's not as quite good as the original. However, it still contains tons of laugh-out-loud, tell-all-your-friends humor that will keep you occupied for hours. For those of you who aren't familiar with the Onion, imagine if South Park and SNL teamed up to write a newspaper with such articles as "Fox Defends Airing of 'When Jews Attack'" and "Fun Toy Banned Because of Three Stupid Dead Kids." These make for hilarious reading, but not if you're offended by (lots of) swearing.
So if you enjoy The Onion, yes, definitely buy this book, it's well worth it; but if you're new to the publication, let me direct you to "The Onion's Finest News Reporting" before you get this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: The onion provides the finest satire in the 21st century
Comment: Through blunt and undiscriminating and politically incorrect straightfaced satire, this collection made me laugh loud and often.
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Title: Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source by The Onion, SCOTT DIKKERS, Mike Loew ISBN: 0609804618 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 23 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Onion Ad Nauseam: Complete News Archives, Volume 13 by Robert Siegel, Carol Kolb, Todd Hanson, John Krewson, Onion Editors ISBN: 1400047242 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Onion's Finest News Reporting, Volume 1 by SCOTT DIKKERS, ROBERT SIEGEL, The Onion, Mike Loew ISBN: 0609804634 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Onion Ad Nauseam: Complete News Archives Volume 14 by ROBERT SIEGEL ISBN: 140004961X Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Tenacity of the Cockroach : Conversations with Entertainment's Most Enduring Outsiders by Stephen Thompson, The Onion ISBN: 0609809911 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 10 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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