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Title: The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, Chaz Bufe, J. R. Swanson ISBN: 1-884365-35-3 Publisher: See Sharp Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95

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Average Customer Rating: 1.5 (8 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Another geat book from AK Press
Comment: A caustic exercise in political and social black humor. 300 plus definitions such as - JUSTICE, n. A term of vicious mockery, as in "equal justice under the law."

Rating: 1
Summary: The contribution by Bufe is a joke
Comment: To put Bufe between the same covers with Bierce is a joke. His contribution is simply a left liberal attack against America and an outlet for radicalism run amuck..A waste of money and dumped in the garbage bin !

Rating: 1
Summary: Delusions of adequacy.
Comment: As usual, Ambrose Bierce said it best. In the preface to "The Devil's Dictionary," he describes the country being "flooded by its imitators with a score of 'cynic' books- The Cynic's This, The Cynic's That, and The Cynic's t'Other. Most of these books were merely stupid, though some of them added the distinction of silliness."...

(What Bufe lacks in wit or talent, however, he more than makes up for in effrontery. Consider, for example, the pretentious title ("The Devil's Dictionaries..."), in which he places his own inadequate work on an equal footing with Bierce's timeless classic. What's next? "The Hamlets, Revised and Expanded, by William Shakespeare and Chaz Bufe?" Consider also his lame self-justification above: "Progressive-minded people have generally loved it, while fundamentalists and other authoritarians have generally hated it." In other words, if you fail to be amused by Bufe's weak attempts at humor, it must be because you're a fundamentalist authoritarian- it couldn't possibly be because the book just plain stinks. Talk about blaming the victim!

Postscript: In a new statement in the editorial review section above, the publisher blames this book's uniformly bad reviews on "right-wingers, fundamentalists, and prudes" who are trying to suppress sales of this book because it "gores their sacred cows." For the record: I'm not a right-winger, a fundamentalist, or a prude by any possible standards, and the only "sacred cows" of mine that this book "gores" are (a) that great authors whose works happen to be in the public domain should be treated with respect, rather than used for posthumous "endorsements" of inferior works that can't stand on their own merits, and (b) that reading a humor book should be an enjoyable experience.