Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of the Onion
by Robert Siegel, Onion Staff, The Onion
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Author: Onion Staff, Robert Siegel, The OnionEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-09-04
ISBN: 0609808346
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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- ISBN13: 9780609808344
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Review: Truly an amazing, laugh-out-loud funny spoof.
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is a collection of spoof, "Harvard Lampoon" style, irreverent "newspaper articles", poking fun at some standards of the newspaper trade. So we have such standbys as the opinion piece rhapsodizing about how much better ballplayers were in the old days ("In My Day, Ballplayers Were For ****") (except that they don't bother to bowdlerize it; if I quote it accurately, Amazon blocks my review), the point-counterpoint ("Nigeria May Be A Developing Nation, But It Is Rich In Tradition") ("Get Me Out Of This Godforsaken Hellhole"), the local point of interest ("Desperate Small Town Erects World's Largest Fiberglass Chili Dog"), religious news ("Pope Calls For Greater Understanding Between Catholics, Hellbound") and many others. What is particularly amazing about this is that not only do they fill an entire book with such spot-on parodies of headlines, but in most cases, they actually write the article that goes with the headlines, and remain just as spot-on in their parodies. (In a few cases, all we see is headlines with fake "see story on page xx" tags.) The one way in which their parodies are NOT perfect is that they are actually BETTER written and edited than real newspaper stories; I found NO typos in the entire book. So not only are they hilariously funny, they're also COMPETENT.
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