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| Title | : | Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source |
| Author | : | Scott Dikkers |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 164 pages |
| Published | : | March 23rd 1999 by Three Rivers Press (first published March 23rd 1998) |
| Categories | : | Humor. History. Comedy. Nonfiction. Politics. Reference. Writing. Journalism |
Scott Dikkers
Paperback | Pages: 164 pages Rating: 4.18 | 12236 Users | 129 Reviews
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The Onion has quickly become the world's most popular humor publication, misinforming half a million readers a week with one-of-a-kind social satire both in print (on newsstands nationwide) and online from its remote office in Madison, Wisconsin.Witness the march of history as Editor-in-Chief Scott Dikkers and The Onion's award-winning writing staff present the twentieth century like you've never seen it before.
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| Original Title: | Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source |
| ISBN: | 0609804618 (ISBN13: 9780609804612) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Thurber Prize for American Humor (1999) |
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Ratings: 4.18 From 12236 Users | 129 ReviewsAssess Appertaining To Books Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source
Best bathroom book of all time.There's just nothing as amusing for a brief read as a made-up front page of The Onion. Good times.
The Onion has a sort of rhythm to its humor that becomes detectable with repeated exposure, to the point where it ruins some of the magic. And mocking the inverted period means that many if not most of its jokes are funniest in the headlines and gradually lose steam as the article goes on, sometimes coming back with a twist at the end but not reliably. For all that, it has a wonderfully unfiltered and observant perspective on modern American life, and the jokes in this book are jokes it's
I guess since this is listed on goodreads, and because it has been published and has an ISBN number, this counts as a real book. But it's actually just the front pages of the onion website. It doesn't even include the whole articles, just the front of them.Well, since I read the onion on the website theonion.com almost every day, this book was a little extraneous. I already read almost all of thse things. But the main thing about it was that it only cost $3 on clearance at Borders. 3 fucking
The Onion's sardonic take on current events and culture can be very funny in small doses, but in such a large anthology, The Onion increasingly comes off as one-trick pony. Most of its humor boils down to hyperbole - treating the unimportant as if it is of tantamount importance, thereby creating a critical commentary on the shallowness of popular culture. You don't have to read much of this book to get the point, and since it's mostly Onion fans who would buy this book in the first place, it
Proof that satire is alive and well in America.
Browsed through since there's really no way anyone would read this thick tome. "Headlines" and mock newspaper stories and layout page after page after page.
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