| View Larger Image | A Million Little Pieces of Feces | Paperbackby Python Bonkers (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Lulu Press | | Page Count: | 260 Pages | | Publication Date: | February 10, 2006 | | Sales Rank: | 1,033,268st |
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Read something different. Read something not churned out by a large, banal machine. Read something that will make you laugh out loud. Something not politically correct. Something without a sweet, sappy ending. Be a rebel. Don't be afraid to think. It's all you really have. Be an American (an incredibly original species before it became sidetracked with the opiates of celebrity escapism and jingoistic lost verisimilitude). Read something that Judith Regan would never publish. Don't be a follower. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 7 reviews)
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Oddly familiar to a previous life... by Old Egg Auction  5 Stars
August 21, 2006
I can certainly relate to Python Bonkers... I'd create a pseudonym as well. This tale is frighteningly familiar to not only me, but to scores of beaten souls who have labored in an environment led by a King of Hubris. That "boss," what a dolt... we all know him well, at some point in our career we've all worked for him... or his kind. Thanks for the memories, but I'd just assume forget that part of my life.
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The answer to life, the universe and everything? by John Agostino (NY, NY) 5 Stars
August 02, 2006
The dedication in this book is: To Mother Nature (wink).
If you have read the book and understand this, then you will understand life, the universe and everything. Sort of. But that's the point, when you think some religion/philosophy/ideology has all the answers -- then that's when it has none of them.
In the small part of the book that mentions this stuff, the author claims it is something that he came up with in an hour or so -- bull. This is a carefully thought out presentation of something philosophers and physicists alike call Determinism and although not the theme around which the book revolves that's where it all leads.
I disagree that this book is anti-religious. All it's trying to say, I suppose, is that once people believe they have all the answers is about when they start aiming the jet plane for the skyscraper. Many people don't like to think about their relation to the physical world and when they do try to contemplate the big picture and life after death and all that business, for many, it is easier to just phone it in. So they stand in the back of their church or place of worship and think that they've got it covered, why bother to think about it any further? Then there are others who believe so deeply that they block out all other rational thought.
Religion does a lot of good but when people start thinking only in terms of absolutes then they figure that they have all the answers and everybody else is simply wrong. That was the point that I got from it.
So when he brings in physics it's just a way to take a physical view of existence to its extreme. Where does it end? How did it begin? What's it all about? That kind of thing. It's just something fun to ponder. Hell, every religion plugs in these answers every day, and that seems to be okay with many who swallow it whole. For all the rest, rational thinking, even in a comical, crazy novel, should not get so easily dismissed.
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A freaking skyrocket Babies by The Burrow man (Miami, Fl) 5 Stars
May 11, 2006
A freaking skyrocket across the sky (or your mind). Madness. Wackiness. And many, many things you've never thought of, that's for sure. I've never read anything like this. I actually reread it after once again rereading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (I know, I'm sick, but I just get a kick out of it) and it's one of the few books I would put up in that category. Ostensibly we are following the adventures of low-level journalist, Python Bonkers, as he attempts to obtain an interview of Willie Nelson and save his magazine career. But his life is not so simple. Like a lion tamer he has to use a "poking stick" to keep the drunks at his beach house in line. His Dilbert-like office is filled with looney tunes who believe in social Darwinism. His sub-atomic approach to reality, as a passenger in a particular slice of time in a finite universe has never quite been explored like this (probably be a good discussion topic in a physics class). If you have a sense of humor, about class, religion, the universe and yourself, you will enjoy this hysterical book (with or without your Depends; you'll understand once you read it).
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This book is the cult classic that nobody knows about yet by Keli Wilson (St. Louis, MO) 5 Stars
March 29, 2006
I predict this will end up being the type of book passed around college dorms and otherwise disseminated, by word of mouth, for years to come. It's one of those books where you say to your friends, "you've got to read this crazy thing, you're going to get a kick out of it." The rhythm and timing of the prose is excellent for the purposes at hand and all of the sentences are carefully balanced and considered, which is essential to humor writing. This book puts the comic in comic novels. And, as far as fake memoirs go, this is tops.
It opens up with some bizarre back and forth exchanges between Bonkers and one of the characters from the book who hijacks the manuscript and tries to publish it behind his back. Then it directs you to the back of the book for a brief discussion of Determinism. Then back to the front of the book. It is a peculiar opening, funny, but I'm not sure a different editor editing this book wouldn't have worked in a more traditional opening. But without experiments where would we be? Stuck with every other assembly line piece of ___ . . . Maybe a million little pieces of them for that matter. Aside from this, I'm going two thumbs up despite the price, after all, it was twice as humorous as the last comic tome I delved into.
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The Dr. is dead. Long live the Dr. by Robert Lattimore (Austin, TX) 5 Stars
March 17, 2006
I opened up this book and the first thing that I saw was a testimonial quote: "Only a lunatic would read this book."
I'm just the guy to do it, I thought to myself.
This thing will make you laugh a lot. It's like taking mescaline and that's probably not a bad idea while reading it - or, at least, some sort of herbal redirection. I've never laughed my ass off while reading a book. I mean, bent over laughing and leading to a laughing jag. I don't know, maybe it's just me. Maybe I need to be committed or something, I'm sure others won't get it, but this thing made me piss my pants. Around every corner, or should I say on every page, something jumped out and before I knew it, there I was, bent over laughing again. Jesus. Once you get a taste of that, you keep on moving forward, because now you want it again, like a junky. And then it delivers. I plowed through the thing in a few short days. The opening 10 or 15 pages, I wasn't sure where he was going but it was amusing enough and then once it got in the groove it was a non-stop riot. Who is this guy? I wonder if it's a famous writer having fun on the side?
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