TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leary,Denis
TI  - Why we suck: a feel good guide to staying fat, loud, lazy and stupid 
SN  - 9780670031603
AV  - PN6165 .L43 2008
U1  - 814/.54 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Viking
KW  - American wit and humor
N2  - 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."
ER  -