Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of the Onion
by Robert Siegel
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Read in January, 2005
This collection of articles from the infamous humorous newspaper The Onion is often vulgar, coursing with profanity and blatant (often sophomoric) sexual jokes. It also contains a healthy dose of irreverence, the religious mockery being aimed largely at Christians, but with enough openness to include occasionally the Jews. Despite its not infrequent offensiveness, The Onion's articles did often make me laugh. Much of the comic force of the collections comes from the authors' abilities to paro...more
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I can't exactly remember when I started reading the Onion, but hardly a day goes by without my checking in on it. It's 'America'sFinest News Source' according to their own press, and I have to tell you... they might be right. They attack popular issues as frequently as they attack meaningless crap and generally poke fun at the media to hilarious effect. Be forewarned though - if you have no sense of humor, if you hate profanity, if the idea of a retired machinist making up horoscopes doesn't sou...more
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Read in June, 2008
Somewhere on my mental top five list of cool things about living in Madison, Wisconsin, would be the piles of Onions that would appear for free on a weekly basis throughout the city. Along with the city's other free paper, The Ithsmus, it was the best newspaper in Madison.
Now that I live in provincial exile, I have to purchase past Onions in book form. Worth it. At its best, The Onion is subversive and funny. At it's worst, it's in extremely poor taste (but still ...more
Now that I live in provincial exile, I have to purchase past Onions in book form. Worth it. At its best, The Onion is subversive and funny. At it's worst, it's in extremely poor taste (but still ...more
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Read in January, 2006
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Adolescents and adults
Like the other Onion books, this is one to browse rather than read straight through. Its parody is kind of like some of George Carlin's humor; it leads the reader to take a second look at some things in life that he/she may not have thought much about and see how weird or ridiculous they are. God diagnosed with bipolar disorder? That would explain a lot... things like that.
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Read in January, 2005
Very f**king funny at times. Great parody of the banality of everyday anxieties. And very, very true. (Ant Farm Teaches Children About Toil, Death).
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This can put a smile on my face like few other books can, no matter what.
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Read in May, 2008
Late Clinton era Onion greatest hits. Splendid.
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