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| Title | : | Brain Droppings |
| Author | : | George Carlin |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 272 pages |
| Published | : | April 22nd 1998 by Hachette Books (first published January 1st 1997) |
| Categories | : | Humor. Nonfiction. Comedy |
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With nearly 20 albums, two Grammys, two Cable ACE awards, and more HBO specials sunder his belt than anyone else, George Carlin is more popular than ever. Now, for the first time, Carlin has produced a book of original humor pieces, Brain Droppings. Filled with thoughts, musings, questions, lists, beliefs, curiousities, monologues, assertions, assumptions, and other verbal ordeals, Brain Droppings is infectiously funny. Also included are two timeless bonus items from the past, "A Place for Your Stuff" and "Baseball-Football." Readers will get an inside look into Carlin's mind, and they won't be disappointed by what they find: I buy stamps by mail. It works OK until I run out of stamps. What year did Jesus Christ think it was? A tree: first you chop it down, then you chop it up. Have you ever noticed the lawyer is always smiling more than the client? I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed. If you ever have chicken at lunch and chicken at dinner, do you ever wonder if the two chickens knew each other?Specify Books In Pursuance Of Brain Droppings
| Original Title: | Brain Droppings |
| ISBN: | 0786891122 (ISBN13: 9780786891122) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.11 From 15526 Users | 503 ReviewsCommentary About Books Brain Droppings
Not my idea of funny. If you like sarcastic, mean and irreverent humor you might enjoy this. I didn't. The first 25 pages or so I would snicker at and hope it would get better. The next 125 I tried to "get" his humor. Lots of word play and puns. Still not my style and I wasn't snickering to myself anymore. I was waiting to find something to laugh at. From page 150 or so until the end of the book I was skimming though long stretches. Probably the most interesting part was Carlin poking fun at hisGeorge Carlin is one of my favorite comedians who made grumpy cynical 60 year olds cool. So when i took this book, i was looking forward to a lot of laughs that makes me think. I had quite not taken into account how much his delivery played a role! So, the book in effect looked like George Carlin's twitter account with brainy one liners that were more a 'yeah-funny' than laugh out loud.The book has 3 types of themes - one based on language and word play which is joke book material. The other is
I like Carlin, I really do. But this book was a big disappointment. There are some small essays that are really good, despite often being not originally new material, things you've heard him say before. They're still fun. But most of the rest is comprised of one-liners, lists of words, list of fictional book-titles, sometimes an eyebrow is raised, sometimes a smile is just around the corner, but the book isn't as good as it is made to be. Maybe I had entirely wrong ideas what the book would be,
I liked this book much better than Napalm & Silly Putty. George was not nearly so irritated and crass here. Of course irritated crassness is part of George's personality, but this book did not make me as uncomfortable as the other one did.There were a few poetic gems hidden in these pages, such as this:"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music."And some giggle inducers, such as this:"You can lead a gift horse to water in the middle of the stream, but you can't
Recycled gold. In 2008 George Carlin faced something he rarely faced in his stand-up comedy career dying. Put simply Carlin was, to borrow Muhammad Alis phrase, the greatest of all time. No other stand-up comic was able to elicit laughs from audience across six decades or was as much a master of the full range of stand-up comedy types. Carlin did observational humor better than Seinfeld, shock humor better than the equally deceased Sam Kinison, ranting topical humor better than the now
I was in my high school English class, when our instructor wanted us to choose a book to read, and afterwards, write the author with questions that came up during the reading. I chose "Brain Droppings" as I enjoyed George Carlin's stand-up routine and had seen him live before. The book was hilarious, as expected.After reading, I wrote Mr. Carlin with a series of questions that came up during the reading. I did not hear back from him during the school year, which was fine, according to our
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