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Why we suck : a feel good guide to staying fat, loud, lazy and stupid / Denis Leary.

By:

Leary, Denis [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Viking, 2008Description: xvi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Audience:

General

ISBN:

9780670031603

Subject(s):

American wit and humor

DDC classification:

814/.54 22

LOC classification:

PN6165 .L43 2008

Summary: According to Leary, his first book is not for the faint of heart, by which he means Americans: "I am here to debunk and declassify and otherwise hold up a brutally honest mirror to our fat, ugly, lazy American selves." Now, a good many comedians make a career out of daring to speak the ugly, gasping truths that few others would. Leary brings a particularly acid-tinged tone to his rantings about annoying children, why cats are satanic spawn, what an ugly racket the Catholic Church is and (more surprisingly) why he loves Oprah. The book will most likely appeal to fans of Leary, and while the material might have been better delivered as a live performance (some of these hate-laced monologues are just begging to be read aloud), Leary himself wildly entertaining."

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Books	Idaho Springs Public Library	ANF	814.54 LEA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	3ISPL00203667X

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According to Leary, his first book is not for the faint of heart, by which he means Americans: "I am here to debunk and declassify and otherwise hold up a brutally honest mirror to our fat, ugly, lazy American selves." Now, a good many comedians make a career out of daring to speak the ugly, gasping truths that few others would. Leary brings a particularly acid-tinged tone to his rantings about annoying children, why cats are satanic spawn, what an ugly racket the Catholic Church is and (more surprisingly) why he loves Oprah. The book will most likely appeal to fans of Leary, and while the material might have been better delivered as a live performance (some of these hate-laced monologues are just begging to be read aloud), Leary himself wildly entertaining."

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