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Magnificent Bastards
by
Rich Hall
From the grouchy, deadpan, comic genius and brilliantly witty author of Otis Lee Crenshaw: I Blame Society and Things Snowball comes this wonderful new collection of stories of magnificent bastards and lost souls. Meet the man who vacuums bewildered prairie dogs out of their burrows;a smug, carbon-neutral eco-couple; a teenage girl who invites 45,000 MySpace friends to a h...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
September 1st 2009
by Little, Brown Book Group
(first published July 2nd 2009)
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Never judge a book by it's cover. In the case of this book, the cover was too good. Groundhogs dancing? That's hilarios! What was promised, based on the back cover description, was quirky and humorous. What was delivered fell short. It was well written, but lacked soul.
I was a bit disappointed with this book. I Think Rich Hall is a very funny stand up comedian, but the book didnt really do it for me. one or two parts made me smile, but I thought it was far from Hilarious - as some reviewers said.
I loved this book. I stumbled across it by accident, and only picked it up because I recognized the writer as the creator of Sniglets, as well as being a very funny comedian and a one-time Saturday Night Live cast member. But this book is dark, very dark. David Sedaris-after-a-bad-day dark. Definitely worth reading.
I read the first two stories and just couldn't get into this book.
Really funny short stories!
Fun, original short stories. I would read more by this author.
Although I am a fan of Rich Hall, this book was not for me so didn't finish it
So far it's much better than the cover and the book quotes made me think it'd be. This book needs much better marketing people.
This book was supposed to be funny. 90% of it was not. I gave it one star only because, at 207 pages, it only wasted 2 days of my discretionary reading time.
A set of really quirky short stories - some excellent, some that I just didn't connect with.
Not as good as 'Things snowball' Very Hard to get into and not as funny.
Interesting characters!
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