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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 814
EAN num: 9780060859879
ISBN number: 0060859873
Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: November 01, 2007
Publishing house: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: October 23, 2007
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Studio: Harper Paperbacks
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Like Kofi Annan, Larry Miller is one of the most irresistible comic personalities working today. Known for years as an actor, writer, comedian, and sexual pioneer, he's gained a new following as a cultural commentator and frequent guest on political shows. Now, in Spoiled Rotten America, he fixes his gaze on what's funny about our daily lives—which includes, roughly speaking, everything. From middle-aged drinking ('When you're in your twenties, you can drink all night and bungee-jump off a bridge the subsequent day. If I drank all night, I'd want to go off that bridge without the cord') to the excesses of our eating habits ('This is why the world hates us: the size of the portions we order. Thank God they've never shown us eating on Al Jazeera—that would be the end of it'), Miller finds the silver lining of absurdity within every grey cloud.
Ultimately, though, Spoiled Rotten America is more than just the average yukfest. It's an insightful, and surprisingly heartfelt, plea for us to notice what's best and worst about ourselves. 'The American pendulum only swings to extremes,' he writes. 'The news is on all day, but we know less and less; there's music in every mall, but we don't hear it; everyone has a phone but nothing to say. The chubbiest of us have the strictest diets, because we can't learn to modulate and moderate. It's all or nothing. One bite of a cookie, and suddenly you're on a plane to Vegas with a hooker. To the Cranky Nitpickers of America—a club I'd join in a second if I weren't already its president—it's long been understood that the world is going to Hell in a handbasket.
'What better time for a collection of seventeen comic essays?'
What better time indeed.
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The words used by most of the reviewers do a good job of reviewing Larry's book. However, it is not a 5-star book.
Spoiled Rotten America is smart. It's funny. It's touching. I like Larry's perspective. It seemed to get better as it went on. However, it is good but not great.
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It is an uplifting book. I laughed and felt the strong spirituality of the writer. Well done.
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This very first literary endeavor by the actor,comedian, and self described "sexual pioneer"(?!!) is a disappointing effort. Although I really enjoy his work as an actor, this book is amazingly lacking in humour and laced with self-indulgence and condensation. (Yes Larry, we know why native Americans are called Indians.) The only bright spot for me was a poignant story about racial prejudice toward the end of the book. If you are looking for laughs, keep looking.One can only hope there will never be a "Spoiled Rotten: the Quickening."
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MIller tells a humorous and engrossing group of stories that mixes personal anecdotes with satire and societal observation. It's a perfect mix and quick read. Definitely worth your time. Enjoy!
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I love Larry Miller's comedy.
Most of this book has a "good old days" flavor (like Glenn Beck uses quite often) and has a couple humorous parts.
Overall, however, I felt that the book could have been compressed into one long article.
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