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10 best books like Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit (Laura Penny): Mad Amos, Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated, 100 Malicious Little Mysteries, In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden, Calvin and Hobbes 1: Thereby Hangs a Tale, Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History's Great Wits and Wordsmiths, Encyclopedia of Bad Taste, The 5-Minute Iliad and Other Instant Classics: Great Books For The Short Attention Span, Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey Through Bestselling Books, Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary: Or Why Can't Anybody Spell

Mad Amos
AuthorAlan Dean Foster
ISBN0345393627
MOVE OVER, PAUL BUNYAN--MAKE WAY FOR MAD AMOS MALONE!

Strange things lurk up in the mountains and out in the plains and deserts of the West, but few are as unique as the giant mountain man named Amos Malone, the man some call Mad Amos, though not to his face. But when the world gets weird, there's...
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated
AuthorJames Thurber
ISBN0809590042
Τρίτο βιβλιαράκι του Τζέιμς Θέρμπερ που διαβάζω, μετά το πολύ ωραίο παραμύθι φαντασίας "Το άσπρο ελάφι" που διάβασα τον Μάρτιο του 2016 και το ιδιαίτερα ευχάριστο...
100 Malicious Little Mysteries
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN1402711018
Charmingly insidious and satisfyingly devious, these 100 baffling little mysteries—selected by such prominent authors as Isaac Asimov—are just the thing to suit your most malevolent mood. These tales come from the pen of many well-known writers in the field, including Michael Gilbert, Edward...
In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden
AuthorAudun Eckhoff
ISBN3775721010
Many call Paul Klee a magician. He was no such thing; he did not conjure up anything. He was a creator who found beauty in the world around him, wrote one of Klee's students from the legendary Bauhaus. The Swiss-born painter, like many of his contemporaries--Kandinsky among them--was interested in Transcendentalism...
Calvin and Hobbes 1: Thereby Hangs a Tale
AuthorBill Watterson
ISBN0751505080
If you have read the first Calvin and Hobbes directory that was published in the 80's, then you have read this one.
It is a paperback version of half the first book. With classic strips.

Was inspired to read it after watching "Dear Mr. Watterson" documentary on Netflix.

I missed...
Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History's Great Wits and Wordsmiths
AuthorMardy Grothe
ISBN0060789484
For most of us, that perfect retort or witty reply often escapes us when we need it most, only to come to mind with perfect clarity when it's too late to be useful. The twentieth-century writer Heywood Broun described this all-too-common phenomenon when he wrote "Repartee is what we wish we'd said."

In...
Encyclopedia of Bad Taste
AuthorJane Stern
The subtitle of this heavenly concoction is: A celebration of American pop culture at its most joyfully outrageous.

This is not so much a book as an aspirin to banish gloom. Of course, America marches on and this book needs a major update to include such modern phenomena as Celebrity Rehab and...
The 5-Minute Iliad and Other Instant Classics: Great Books For The Short Attention Span
AuthorGreg Nagan
ISBN0684867672
Was Homer really blind, or was that just his shtick? Was Dante a righty or a lefty? Why aren't there any pictures of Jane Austen in a bikini? What made Oscar so Wilde? How much did Hemingway? These are just some of the many great questions of Western literature ignored in this book.
From the author of...
Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey Through Bestselling Books
AuthorLisa Adams
What do weight loss, evil emperors and tales of redemption have in common?
We readers have many dirty little secrets-and our bestselling books are spilling them all. We can't resist conspiratorial crooks or the number 7. We have bought millions of books about cheese. And over a million of us read...
Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary: Or Why Can't Anybody Spell
AuthorVivian Cook
ISBN0743270991
"It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word." -- Andrew Jackson
Weird or wierd? Necessary or neccessary? Recomend or recommend? English spelling is fiendish, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun with it.

Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary is at once a celebration...
'Isms & 'Ologies: All the Movements, Ideologies and Doctrines That Have Shaped Our World
AuthorArthur Goldwag
ISBN0307279073
Have you ever wondered about the difference between Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism and which influenced the other? Do you know where Post-modernism stops and Post-structuralism begins? Would you like to? From Platonism to New Historicism, humankind is constantly coming up with fresh schools...
The Devil's Picnic
AuthorTaras Grescoe
ISBN1582344299
Not exactly what I'd thought it would be, but that worked out fine. As it turns out, Grescoe is far less concerned with forbidden foods than he is with why they might be prohibited. Which means, in this case, that he's largely talking about current (as of 2005, at least) laws much more so than, say, ancient...
Trust Us, We're Experts!: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future
AuthorSheldon Rampton
ISBN1585421391
The authors of Toxic Sludge Is Good for You! unmask the sneaky and widespread methods industry uses to influence opinion through bogus experts, doctored data, and manufactured facts. We count on the experts. We count on them to tell us who to vote for, what to eat, how to raise our children. We watch them...
Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language
AuthorRuth Wajnryb
ISBN0743274342
Have we always "sworn like sailors"? Has creative cursing developed because we can't just slug people when they make us angry? And if such verbal aggression is universal, why is it that some languages (Japanese, for instance) supposedly do not contain any nasty words? Throughout the twentieth century...
Life: The Movie - How Entertainment Conquered Reality
AuthorNeal Gabler
ISBN0375706534
"A thoughtful, in places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out American life." --The New York Times Book Review

From one of America's most original cultural critics and the author of Winchell, the story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, glamour,...
The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived
AuthorAllan Lazar
ISBN0061132217
Supposedly a discussion of “How Characters of Fiction, Myth, Legends, Television, and Movies Have Shaped Our Society, Changed Our Behavior, and Set the Course of History”—to quote the rather lengthy subtitle—this book instead presents 101 explanations of who 101 characters are—there’s...
The Xenophobe's Guide to the Germans
AuthorStefan Zeidenitz
ISBN1902825292
Quite a hilarious read... yes, it sterotypes Germany and Germans but so what, there's a lot of truth and reality in it, and I think the authors really hit a nerve here and there. Made me laugh out loud quite a few times, here are some tidbits:

About obsesssions... "The Germans love their cars more...
Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism
AuthorNoenoe K. Silva
In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the U.S. Senate. This event was unknown to...
Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English
AuthorJames Cochrane
ISBN1402203314
In the spirit of the bestselling Eats, Shoots & Leaves, this is an informative and highly amusing little book about bad English, full of examples of the incorrect grammar and usage that often pervades modern radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, classroom discussions, and political speeches....
Stuff Hipsters Hate: A Field Guide to the Passionate Opinions of the Indifferent
AuthorBrenna Ehrlich
ISBN1569758212
PRAISE FOR stuffhipstershate.tumblr.com

"Depressingly astute."

--The New Yorker

"Wickedly funny."

--The Frisky

From the dive bars of Brooklyn's Williamsburg to the dirty alleys of San Francisco's Mission, the urban hipster has redefined American...
Snark: A Polemic in Seven Fits (It's Mean, It's Personal, and It's Ruining Our Conversation)
AuthorDavid Denby
ISBN1416599452
What is snark? You recognize it when you see it -- a tone of teasing, snide, undermining abuse, nasty and knowing, that is spreading like pinkeye through the media and threatening to take over how Americans converse with each other and what they can count on as true. Snark attempts to steal someone's mojo,...
Adland: Searching for the Meaning of Life on a Branded Planet
AuthorJames P. Othmer
Liar's Poker meets The Tipping Point meets Mad Men-a hilarious, personal, and sneakily profound chronicle of the past, present, and future of the advertising business.

Adland is a book about advertising. Which is to say, it's a book about every issue and aspect of life on our morally conflicted,...
The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English
AuthorMark Abley
ISBN0618571221
An exhilarating exploration of how the world's languages are likely to transform and be transformed by their speakers

Mark Abley, author of Spoken Here, takes the reader on a global journey like no other—from Singapore to Tokyo, from Oxford to Los Angeles, through the Internet and back...
The Porning of America: The Rise of Porn Culture, What it Means, and Where We Go from Here
AuthorCarmine Sarracino
ISBN0807061530
From the popular Bratz dolls to the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, The Porning of America reveals that porn has become the mainstream-and the mainstream has become porn. Carmine Sarracino and Kevin Scott argue that porn has seeped into and been absorbed by every defining aspect of our culture: language,...
Tangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff
AuthorJames B. Stewart
ISBN1594202699
Book Description Publication Date: April 19, 2011 Bestselling author James B. Stewart's newsbreaking investigation of our era's most high-profile perjurers, revealing the alarming extent of this national epidemic. Our system of justice rests on a simple proposition: that witnesses will raise...
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