Coyote V. Acme by Ian Frazier Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Coyote V. Acme
Book Review: I found it boring. Read parts of it before you buy it!
Summary: 1 Stars
The only good essay in this book is the title story. The rest are either boring or understandable by people with backgrounds a lot different from mine. Frankly, I didn't "get" the point (humor) in many of the stories. I suggest you read a few of these essays before you buy the bookBook Review: Lame
Summary: 1 Stars
It is an insult to the history of satire in this great land of ours to call this contrived waste of badly needed carbon dioxide sucking trees "great American satire." You know comedy is bad when you start to imagine the writer sitting in a plastic wicker lawn chair saying to himself in between slurps of some foofoo drink, under the drone of the neigbor's lawn mower, "yeah ... heh, heh, heh, that's funny I ought to write that down." If you want some satire from a disenfranchised white male, go check out T.C. Boyle's Budding Prospects and lets have the author of this dud out there planting the trees his book wasted.
John Boyt, Uskudar American Academy, IstanbuBook Review: Monty Python meets Warner Brothers
Summary: 4 Stars
If you grew up appreciating Roadrunner cartoons, the title "essay" is one of the funniest pieces ever written; absolutely perfect word pictures of Coyote's mishaps, while defly skewering our litigious society. Although the book is uneven, don't miss "In the Plain Air" - all is not beauty among the Impressionist painters - and "Boswell's Life of Don Johnson" - Frazier's ear for parody is marvelousBook Review: Severe disappointment from this otherwise talented writer
Summary: 1 Stars
Having read other essays by this author in my Atlantic Monthly I looked forward to enjoying Coyote vs Acme. Alas, I found little to laugh at and much to be confused by. I returned the book to the store to get it out of my library. Maybe somebody else can figure it out. Sigh...Book Review: Shame, shame, shame
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is excellent - an excellent example of bad writing. This book is hilarious - hilarious that people buy this stuff as legitimate humor. I'm all for satire, but let's be more responsible in our choice of targets. E.g. Octogenarian Bob Hope? To "pile on" this venerable comic smacks of bandwagon mentality. Sure he supported the Viet Nam War...I suppose next Frazier is going to criticize Henry Kissinger? Give me a break... The title piece pokes fun at our legal system. Frazier! Hello! It's a cartoon! Those injuries are not real! And a university president mouthing unmentionable satanic expressions? What kind of message does that send to the young people? In closing, methinks that Mr. Frazier is a little too much like the proverbial Wile E. Coyote ...always seeking the elusive bird (bard?) of fine literature and continually hoist by his own petard of gimmicky, nonsensical writing. He should remind himself that the cartoon is called "Roadrunner" - not "Coyote". I had a minor in literature in college, so I know from whence I speak.