We are all blessed to have humor at whatever level we can muster. Without humor, the world would be a very serious, dull, and unbearable to place to live. Smiling, laughter, and amusement are necessary to keep us all from taking life so seriously that there’s hardly any reason worth living it.
That’s all.
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Year Zero by Rob Reid
I give this book a 4.
This is a very entertaining read full of laughs and, oddly enough, a great deal of factual information I never knew. This story is so absurd that I’m not quite sure how to describe it.
Apparently advanced aliens, far across the galaxy, have been craving and downloading earth music because it’s the one thing the insufficient human race is actually good at (and the rest of the known universe is not). Then one day the superior aliens, through their mastery of legal principles, realize that they owe the people of earth an innumerous amount of royalties or something like that. While some aliens have decided to settle the matter in court, others have decided to just eliminate the problem all together. That’s where the intergalactic misadventures of lawyer Nick Carter (not to be confused with Backstreet Boy, Nick Carter) begin.
To say that the characters of this story are kooky would be an understatement. My favorite thing about the story isn’t technically apart of the story. I love the footnotes. The footnotes of this book are like a running commentary in a movie. They are informative, hilarious, and pleasantly distracting. Eventually I had to stop reading them to finish the story and then went back to read them in perspective. I guess if you’re not really a reader, this may not sound appealing.
All aliens aside, anyone who likes music will love this book. It’s also good for a laugh.
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Book Title: If Brains Were Dynamite
Author Name: Alec Hawkes
Publisher: Independent
Reading Level: adult
Genre: satire
Content Rating: PG
Available Formats: ebook, paperback
Number of pages: 116
Purchase links: Consumer Review by C.W. Lovatt| Amazon UK | Amazon U.S.
Book Blurb from Amazon.com
The follow up to ‘Common Sense Would Be Good’. Expanding on the same theme, the author mocks the crooks and idiots who continue to make a mess of running government while lining their own pockets. Very funny.
Author Bio from Amazon.com
My name is Alec Hawkes, an English chap with a rather good sense of humour. I am in my early 50’s, and have had no formal training whatsoever in how to write. That is, of course, since my school days. However, I love to read and I love to write. My writing style is all mine. My day job is a night job, for I am part of a nearly extinct species, the dear old milkman, unique – I do believe – to Britain. Please correct me if I am wrong. I have a deep affection for comedy, irony, satire, and anything that raises a chuckle or deep belly laugh, or even merely an eyebrow. My own books – two so far, with more to come – are satirical swipes at the political and banking systems in Britain. I am told that many a chuckle and raised eyebrow come from reading my books. My third, which I am working on now, will have a more international feel as I have a ‘pop’ at many more politicians. All in fun, of course, though with a serious underlying message for the buggers to TELL THE TRUTH!
To learn a bit more about Alec Hawkes, check out his special Facebook Interview here.
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