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Thirty-seven years ago, a slim parody of academic literary criticism called The Pooh Perplex became a surprise bestseller. Now Frederick Crews has written a hilarious new satire in the same vein. Purporting to be the proceedings of a forum on Pooh convened at the Modern Language Association's annual convention, Postmodern Pooh brilliantly parodies the academic fads and figures that hold sway at the millennium.
Deconstruction, poststructuralist Marxism,...
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Have you, or has anyone you know, ever suffered from stupidity?
From Dr. Larry, the Internationally Renowned Psychotherapist, Self-Righteous Occupier of the Moral High Ground, and All-Around Better Person than You, comes 563 Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives. Dr. Larry's previous books, such as You Can't Spell Stupid Without U and I and Why Mediocre Things Happen to Mediocre People, have changed the lives of millions of intelligence-challenged...
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Arguably the funniest novel to emerge from Northern Europe since the Black Death.
A reindeer strangler has struck again; the world's leading authority on Baltic sturgeon has been filleted, and the head of Sweden's only unpublished thriller writer has been discovered some meters from his body. Just a typical day in Stockholm's crime log? Or are the murders the works of a single killer? Chief Inspector Svenjamin Bubbles has a suspect: Lizzy Salamander,...
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"She knelt before me on the shed floor and tugged gently, then harder until finally it came. I moaned with pleasure. Now for the other boot ..."
Colin Grey's life was happy and simple, until the day everything changed-the day his wife read that book. Suddenly, he was thrust headfirst into a dark, illicit world of pleasure and pain. This is what happens when a tide of tempestuous, erotic desire invades man's last place of privacy: his backyard shed.
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A quirky, nostalgic send-up to the Oregon Trail computer game, featuring snarky and hard-earned life lessons from the trail. Pack your wagons, find your ride-or-(literally) die friends, and roll up to Matt's General Store with a sack of cash-it's time to hit the Oregon Trail, twenty-first-century style! ...And Then You Die of Dysentery is the perfect send-up to the sometimes frustrating, always entertaining, and universally beloved Oregon Trail computer...
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Un caballero pide el tocho más pesado (literalmente) que aflija las estanterías, otro necesita adquirir cincuenta y dos metros de lomos más o menos vistosos y un tercero quiere leer la edición débil de cierta obra. Una dama sospecha que las novelas de Dickens fueron escritas por su hermana Charlene, otra busca libros de color verde y una tercera pregunta por relatos donde Robin Hood no robe a los ricos. Demencias como éstas (e incluso más dementes)...
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All those aspiring ne'er-do-wells who cackled all the way to the cash register with the bestselling How to Be a Villain are ready to embrace the finer points of the evil life with The Villain's Guide to Better Living. Within lie the answers to such trying questions as: Home decor - Gothic? Apocalyptic? Ikea? Friends - Do I have any? Can I make them? Work - Should I be a mad scientist or a corporate bastard? Written by the author of How to Be a Villain,...
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The jOYs of Live by comedy author Michelle Hoppe is a look into the ups and downs of raising a family while attempting to become an author. Take a peek into the family life of the Hoppe clan and discover how Michelle turned oys into jOYs…or at least delightfully funny stories. "My life was a sort of series of random disasters." Claire Tomalin I was blessed with the ability to view life through rose tinted glasses. This, along with a twisted sense...
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A baby book with a grown-up twist.
Since babies don't understand a word being read to them, why not give their weary parents a break with some laugh therapy and commiseration? In this clever incarnation of a baby book of new words, the art is baby oriented, while the text is grown-up hilarious: "This is a house. It's a lot like the one we had to remortgage to pay for your daycare." Of course, as a baby book, it has to end sweetly: "These are mountains....
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From the creators of the eponymous viral Tumblr comes a single day with your favorite authors in one Twilight-Zone-esque Starbucks...
Ever wonder which intricate, elaborately-named drinks might be consumed if your favorite authors and characters wandered into a Starbucks? How many pumpkin lattes J.K. Rowling would drink? Or, if Cormac McCarthy needed caffeine, which latte would be laconic enough? Look no further; LITERARY STARBUCKS explores such...
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Ob es nun eine Kaffeegrundsatzentscheidung oder eine Kaffeesatzgrundentscheidung war, die Sie zum Kauf des Buches gebracht hat, wissen nur Sie. Mit dieser Entscheidung haben Sie die Möglichkeit Erkenntnisse darüber zu erlangen, was eine ablassbedürftige Notlage ist und was flotte Blomster sind. Was hat es mit den mysteriösen Fällen des Herrn Bäckermeisters auf sich und warum ist ein Garten ein unheilvolles Wesen.
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From G. Gaynor McTigue, the author who brought you the original commendium of life's annoying problems-Life's Little Frustration Book-come 365 even more ignominious irritants and aggravations that suck the joy out of life. More Life's Little Frustration Book shares even more ridiculous problems that you'd rather live without.
For even more annoying problems, read the original: Life's Little Frustration Book.
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Feeling blue? Indulge yourself with this fabulous line-up of some of the friskiest films of all time. Some of them real, some of them imagined, these titillating titles are accompanied by anatomically unimaginable illustrations. This book of sexy spoof movies will have you hooting with disbelief, wincing with wonder and guffawing at its audacity and just plain rudeness. From Lord of the G-Strings: The Twins Shower to The Sperminator, the delectably...
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There's something for everyone in this bumper First Edition of REVISTA. Whatever you're into - Ghosts, Private-Eyes with the Most, Interstellar Exiles, Fatally Conflicted A.I.'s, Transmigrated Testifiers, Tinkering Rock 'n' Roll Time-Travellers, Ex Detectives, Puzzling Disappearances, Deadly Vendetta's, Former Inmates- Telling-All or Paranormal Investigators, you'll find a Tale or Two among the Ten that's just right for you.
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A hilariously sh*tty holiday gift for everyone who loves Christmas and anyone who poops.
Curl up by the fire with some steaming hot chocolate and listen to Fudgy the Poopman offer his unique take on your favorite Christmas tales. You're probably familiar with Rudolph and his red-nose; but in this book, you hear how Christmas was saved by Rupert, whose case of IBS has left him with a shining red spot on the opposite end of his reindeer body.
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Congratulations, man! By picking up The Complete A**hole's Guide to Handling Chicks, you are just pages away from finally understanding:
- How a five-dollar date can get you laid
- How to stop being friends with girls and start getting them in the sack
- Where you'll have the best odds of finding a one-night stand, and how to get rid of the chick the next morning
- How to trick a woman into thinking you're classy, even if you have holes in your...
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You are cordially invited to celebrate
A Parody of
The New York Times
Wedding Announcements
by
Kasper Hauser
Along with fully illustrated guides to:
Wedding-night sex,
Honeymoon hot spots,
Formalwear malfunctions,
and much, much more.
At four o'clock in the Afternoon.
Or is it three o'clock?
Didn't you bring the invitation?
Huh? Where the hell is the turnoff?
Back there. I think I saw a paper plate and some balloons.
What's wrong?
I...
19) Griefstrike!
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There are other guidebooks aimed at helping you cope with the emotional and practical challenges of losing a loved one, but none have been written by a comedy writer whose therapeutic training went no further than a bachelor's program in psychology, and who has lived through this terrible experience and emerged intact enough to write a bunch of jokes about it. What The Daily Show's America (The Book) was to civics, Amy Sedaris' I Like You was to entertaining,...
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