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Title: Et Tu, Babe by Mark Leyner ISBN: 0-679-74506-8 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.04 (24 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good but not his best
Comment: I first came across Mark Leyner by way of his most recent composition, The Tetherballs of Bougainville. Having devoured it faster than any book I have ever read I craved more. I picked up Et Tu, Babe and had high expectations. Expectations that were mostly rewarded but where Tetherballs flys this one just drives really fast. I found myself getting a little bored with Et Tu in parts. It was relentlessly manic in a way that made it become tiring in parts. Don't get me wrong, this was a very funny book, it's just that while Tetherballs repeatedly extracted convulsive fits somewhere beyond laughter out of my body, Et Tu only made me laugh out loud. I recommend reading this one before Tetherballs for this reason. I plan to read My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist next. (By the way, while it is not very similar in style or content the last most hilarious book I read was Conspiracy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, I highly recommend it for those with a taste for the eccentric and a love of dark humour a la Leyner or Hunter S. Thompson)
Rating: 5
Summary: A short excersize in insanity....
Comment: Who is this "Mark Leyner", why is he here, who brought him here, when and WHY? These are all questions attempting pathetically to be answered in this book. Luckily, that ends after the blank first page and segues into the total frontal lobotomy that is "Et Tu Babe". Comfortably resting somewhere on the borderline of complete incoherence and an organized encyclopedia of pop colture jokes, "Et Tu Babe" is bibliophied decay, masked as offbeat humor. The beginning paragraph will typefy the whole novel for you, and, if you're at all like me you'll just shrug and say "exactly...where the hell did he get that...anyway?" you'll read on an cease to care.
An altogether ingenius book.....a must read.....go buy it...now! Or face the wrath of the little freakish kiddies performing plastic surgery on a peekid girl behind the canned goods section.
Rating: 3
Summary: Et Tu, Bah
Comment: Having read, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist, I had high hopes for Et Tu, Babe. However, other than a few hilarious venues(the "everything" sandwich, visceral tattoos, and the Schwarzeneggerization of America), this was a disappointment. I wound up skimming through too much tedium. I suspect Leyner had personal problems midway (the Arlene Scene) as the 2nd half of the book d r a g s. Nun thee less, Leyner when he's on is one of the funniest orgasmic writers around.
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Title: The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel by Mark Leyner ISBN: 067976349X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog (Vintage Comtemporaries) by Mark Leyner ISBN: 0679745211 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist by Mark Leyner ISBN: 0679745793 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: I Smell Esther Williams: And Other Stories by Mark Leyner ISBN: 0679750452 Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Emporium by Adam Johnson ISBN: 0142001953 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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