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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 200.92
EAN: 9781594489945
ISBN: 1594489947
Label: Riverhead Hardcover
Manufacturer: Riverhead Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: June 03, 2008
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Studio: Riverhead Hardcover
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
From the hilariously mad-as-hell Daily Show regular and New York Timesbestselling author comes a ferociously funny exploration of religion and faith.
What do we believe? And in Gods name why?
Lewis Black has the answers. Or at least his answers. He survived Hebrew school and a bar mitzvah (barely), was a sixties college student who saw the parallels between religious rapture and drug-induced visions (even if none of his friends did), explored the self-actualization movement of the seventies (and the self-indulgence it engendered), and turned a cynical eye toward politicians who don the cloak of religious rectitude to cover up their own hypocrisy.
What he learned about the inconsistencies and peculiarities of religion infuriated Black, and in Me of Little Faith they get his full comic attention. In a series of comedic inquiries, Black explores how the rules and constraints of religion have affected his life and the lives of us all. Hilarious experiences with rabbis, Mormons, gurus, psychics, and even the joy of a perfect round of golf give Black the chance to expound upon what we believe and whyin the language of a shock jock and with the heart of an iconoclast.
Rating:
- Forty essays (193 pages) plus and old play script (37 pages)
Some of the essays are funny but too many not so much. If there is a central idea in all these diverse essays, it is that the fear of death is the root of religion and humor. But too many of the essays seem to stand alone disconnected. For example, the extremely short essay on Islam was the perfect place where Lewis Black could have elaborated in a humorous way, of course, on the complex interplay of fear of death and humor (or the lack of it in this instance) and religion. But no such effort is ... Read More
Rating:
- Don't waste my time
To be fair, I didn't read the whole book. Did it ever get funny? This is what I image happens when you mix too many chemicals and a typewriter. The first couple of chapters were just a waste of time and I moved on to better things. This guy does not belong in the company of the great Stewart and Colbert. Infantile.
Rating:
- He does it again
Lewis Black does it again. He may step on a few(?) toes but he tells it like it is, something our goverment has a problem doing.
Rating: - hysterical!!!
Totally hysterical. I love it.
I'd marry Lewis Black if I could meet him.
I'd live an extra 20 years just from the benefits of his humor.
Rating:
- Me of Little Faith
Lewis Black has a self described "potty mouth" and he uses it in this audio book. I'm not offended by the religious humor - that is what I expected but I think I would have enjoyed the reading more if someone else had performed it or if he had skipped the worst of the profanity. I've not heard anything by him before so I didn't know what to expect except when I'd seen on Larry King. I must say that I laughed a lot at his description of many TV Evangelists! And he did have one religion he liked ... Read More
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Me of Little Faith
by: Lewis Black
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 200.92
EAN: 9781594489945
ISBN: 1594489947
Label: Riverhead Hardcover
Manufacturer: Riverhead Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: June 03, 2008
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Studio: Riverhead Hardcover
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
From the hilariously mad-as-hell Daily Show regular and New York Timesbestselling author comes a ferociously funny exploration of religion and faith.
What do we believe? And in Gods name why?
Lewis Black has the answers. Or at least his answers. He survived Hebrew school and a bar mitzvah (barely), was a sixties college student who saw the parallels between religious rapture and drug-induced visions (even if none of his friends did), explored the self-actualization movement of the seventies (and the self-indulgence it engendered), and turned a cynical eye toward politicians who don the cloak of religious rectitude to cover up their own hypocrisy.
What he learned about the inconsistencies and peculiarities of religion infuriated Black, and in Me of Little Faith they get his full comic attention. In a series of comedic inquiries, Black explores how the rules and constraints of religion have affected his life and the lives of us all. Hilarious experiences with rabbis, Mormons, gurus, psychics, and even the joy of a perfect round of golf give Black the chance to expound upon what we believe and whyin the language of a shock jock and with the heart of an iconoclast.
Average Rating:
Rating:
- Forty essays (193 pages) plus and old play script (37 pages)Some of the essays are funny but too many not so much. If there is a central idea in all these diverse essays, it is that the fear of death is the root of religion and humor. But too many of the essays seem to stand alone disconnected. For example, the extremely short essay on Islam was the perfect place where Lewis Black could have elaborated in a humorous way, of course, on the complex interplay of fear of death and humor (or the lack of it in this instance) and religion. But no such effort is ... Read More
Rating:
- Don't waste my timeTo be fair, I didn't read the whole book. Did it ever get funny? This is what I image happens when you mix too many chemicals and a typewriter. The first couple of chapters were just a waste of time and I moved on to better things. This guy does not belong in the company of the great Stewart and Colbert. Infantile.
Rating:
- He does it againLewis Black does it again. He may step on a few(?) toes but he tells it like it is, something our goverment has a problem doing.
Rating:
- hysterical!!! Totally hysterical. I love it.
I'd marry Lewis Black if I could meet him.
I'd live an extra 20 years just from the benefits of his humor.
Rating:
- Me of Little FaithLewis Black has a self described "potty mouth" and he uses it in this audio book. I'm not offended by the religious humor - that is what I expected but I think I would have enjoyed the reading more if someone else had performed it or if he had skipped the worst of the profanity. I've not heard anything by him before so I didn't know what to expect except when I'd seen on Larry King. I must say that I laughed a lot at his description of many TV Evangelists! And he did have one religion he liked ... Read More
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