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"The poems are so deliciously bad that they're fun . . . it might just be that there's a little bit of serious poetry play giggling behind the scenes." -Los Angeles Times
Forget Shakespeare. Don't count on Donne. Shelley and Keats: banished! And there's absolutely no poet laureate from the golden or any other age. So fawning PhDs in love with little-understood verses by long-dead writers should go elsewhere. This is poetry for the rest of us-bad...
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller: “A hilarious take on that age-old problem: getting the beloved child to go to sleep” (NPR).
“Hell no, you can’t go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The f**k to sleep.”
Go the Fuck to Sleep is a book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully...
“Hell no, you can’t go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The f**k to sleep.”
Go the Fuck to Sleep is a book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully...
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2012
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The hilarious New York Times–bestselling cult classic “of such perfectly realized awfulness that it will suck your soul right out of your brainpan” (The Village Voice).
For talk show host Gillian Blake, the suburbs have long been a paradise. On the radio, she and her husband are Gilly and Billy, local media stars and “New York’s Sweethearts of the Air.” At home they’re the...
For talk show host Gillian Blake, the suburbs have long been a paradise. On the radio, she and her husband are Gilly and Billy, local media stars and “New York’s Sweethearts of the Air.” At home they’re the...
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In this wildly funny, biting satire, in which James Qafka, noted children's book author and his cats, Ying-Tong and Poon-Tang, investigate the ghastly murder of Lilian Jackson Braun, Kaplow's shotgun approach shatters his main targets and does a lot of collateral damage as well. Like Mad magazine humor, the zingers come quickly, lancing Britney Spears on one page, delivering a glancing blow to "Murder, She Wrote" on the next and giving a resounding...
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Fantasia Seele has always been naive, but nothing can prepare her for the day she meets notorious serial killer Tristan Shay. Tristan leads a disturbing lifestyle, and has a dark past to go along with it. From the moment the two encounter one another, it's love at first sight, and the killer agrees to take Fantasia under his wing and introduce his new protege to his sick world. While learning more about her new man and the lifestyle he's created for...
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"Classics" (the books you've lied about reading). Actual Classics (Greek and Latin books people don't even pretend to have read). Contemporary fiction (those books people talk about at parties that you've "definitely heard of" but never bothered to pick up). Children's (books that say the most with the fewest number of words, i.e. "The Best Books"). Reference (Those books that were around before Google). From children's literature, The Very Hungry...
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My father's crotch sang many songs, and the first of them all, was me.
Now it is my turn to sing, and I will sing to you of many things.
Here are my stories. Here are my songs.
I will sing of a man who wrestles furniture, and of a sister who disappears.
I will sing of modern day cannibalism, and Dwayne Johnson's elbow.
I will sing of foul-mouthed butterflies and plastic sharks, and I will hum a few bars about cartoon trains.
I will warble...
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The human race is an endangered species. Vampires, werewolves, Bigfoot, and killer robots-they're all trying to kill us. Killer robots even have the word "killer" in their name. Can it get more obvious? We need to rid the world of these monsters before they rid the world of us. All of them. But these monsters aren't real, right? Wrong, and you're dead. These creatures wander the periphery of our reality, waiting for a moment of weakness, and then...
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"Born and raised deep in the American heartland of God-fearing suburban Maryland, young Selina Eaton learned to love her country and her fellow man from her parents, Catherine, a sportswoman, dog lover, and philanthropist, and Gordon, or “Daddy” as she always called him, a businessman and entrepreneur. From an early age, Selina, an active, curious, happy-go-lucky child, showed an uncanny ability to relate to others and to solve their real-world...
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This book was, intended as a Portuguese-English conversational guide or phrase book, but is, regarded as a classic source of unintentional humor, as the given English translations are generally, completely incoherent. The humor appears to be a result of dictionary-aided literal translation, which causes many idiomatic expressions to be, translated wildly inappropriately. Mark Twain said of 'English as She Is Spoke' that "Nobody can add to the absurdity...
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Extrait : "Quand Dieu de son souffle puissant eut formé l'homme, il voulut lui donner une compagne : il fit Ève, et bientt l'amour les enflamma d'une même ardeur. Alors point de perfides, de coquetteries, d'amours inconstants ; ils se jurèrent fidélité et ne la trahirent jamais."
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Extrait : "Aristote, Platon, Socrate, M. de Bonald, M. Cousin et une foule d'autres philosophes et naturalistes, dont le détail serait beaucoup trop long pour vous et pour moi, ont successivement proposé de nouvelles définitions de l'animal qui est convenu de se nommer homme."
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Extrait : "Ô femme ! femme !... être énigmatique s'il en fut, à toi dont les magnétiques prunelles, les charmes tout puissants, font ployer tout sous leur empire, à toi ce livre écrit l'abondance, o sur un ton tantt sentimental, tantt railleur, nous allons traiter le sujet le plus grave, le plus léger, le plus positif, le plus nébuleux, le plus matériel, le plus insaisissable, le plus terrestre, le plus gai, le plus tout ce qu'on voudra,...
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Extrait : "Lorsque César porta ses armes dans la Grande-Bretagne, les peuples de cette île avaient l'habitude de porter des cheveux et de la barbe rouges. Ils manifestaient leur joie avec leurs marques de la plus grande désinvolture. Aux lois germaniques, dont le dernier roi saxon avait rédigé le code, se mêlèrent quelques coutumes normandes."
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Extrait : "Nous avons vu percer des rues là o s'entassaient les maisons, ici o verdoyaient les jardins ; de nouvelles rues ont donné le jour et de l'air aux vieux quartiers ; de nouvelles rues larges comme des voies romaines se sont ouvertes dans les quartiers tout neufs; chaque année la grande ville, qui déborde son enceinte de toutes parts, multiplie les mille détours de son labyrinthe boueux, et la naissance d'une rue n'est guère plus remarquée...
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Extrait : « Beaumarchais a dit : "De toutes les choses sérieuses, le mariage étant la plus bouffonne!..." Mais Beaumarchais, qui voulait constamment faire de l'esprit, avançait souvent des paradoxes qu'il ne soutenait que par des plaisanteries. Non, le mariage n'est pas une chose bouffonne! »
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Extrait: "J'ai rencontré bien des choses drles dans le courant de ma vie. Je sais un homme de lettres qui, sous prétexte qu'il a obtenu d'agréables succès comme faiseur d'élégies, de vaudevilles et de romans intimes, a fini par rêver qu'il est un homme politique, et passe sa vie à se demander pourquoi la France, l'ingrate France! nel'élève pas, tout d'une voix, à un ministère quelconque."
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