Saturday, January 21, 2012

How to Confuse the Idiots in Your Life by Ben Goode

Hilarious.  A lot of the chapters are just funny quotes made up by the author.  The rest explain how to answer dumb questions posed by "idiots", which, by the author's definition, means anybody but him.  He makes himself out to be a hilariously horrible person.  Many times, it made me laugh out loud, and I was at least smiling through the whole book.

For example, people leave California after about the third or fourth time somebody in their family is hit by a drive-by shooting while sneaking out to get the newspaper.  In the quotes, it's a running gag to put some variation of "it sucks" ("I suck", "you suck", "he sucks", etc.) and attribute the quote to historical adolescents. 

The book was written to help people in a world where politicians and lawyers are all consistently evil.  It was written for those who reside where convoluted answers are perfectly acceptable and parking tickets are handed out on a regular basis.  In short, it's a funny book for people who live in a funny world.

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