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Jun 12, 2010

Brian rated it:

I have been a huge fan of Glenn Beck's radio show ever since he became syndicated back in 2002. If you actually take the time to LISTEN to his radio show for an extended period of time you realize that he is in a constant state of analyzing his choices, his philosophies and his political alignments. He is not, despite what his detractors think, a mindless republican stooge... or even a mindless CONSERVATIVE stooge. He's just a regular guy who has made it big but who stays close to his values More...

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Jan 21, 2008

Jared rated it:

I rated this at 5 stars just to counter the mandatory 1 star I had to give Al Gore's book. This book is by no means just a counter to Gore's book but includes other issues as well. Some are deserving of this rating and others are just meant to be humorous.

The chapters on global warming, marriage, radical islam, political correctness, income gap, minimum wage, UN and others have good ideas and counter so much of the crap that we hear from so many sides in the media today.
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Sep 04, 2008

Benjamin rated it:

Wow. If you have ever had a desire to be simultaniously entertained, horrified, and informed this is the book for you. Glenn Beck offers his opinion on everything from global warming to illigal immigration, marriage and dateing, minimum wage, child molesters and dozens of other topics.
It really got me thinking about a lot of things and because he is an entertainer as well as a comentator he does an excellent job at taking some topics that would be rather dry and making them fun. I love More...

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Mar 08, 2008

DeLaina rated it:

I started reading this book late one night because I didn't have any other books to read. The first few pages produced some stifled giggles, but then I started howling w/laughter at the "global warming" section, to the point where Paul asked me to please go somewhere else so he could sleep.

I like Glenn Beck's writing and his self-deprecating sense of humor. He doesn't take himself too seriously but is able to convey some of the world's serious problems and offer some good s More...

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Feb 18, 2008

Emily rated it:

I'm a Glenn Beck fan, so I enjoyed this book, though not as much as his other (The Real America), which I really recommend. The book is a lot like his show with side notes, humor, and random thoughts. It is an easy read, as it is broken up in many sections, and looks like a junior high school textbook with all sorts of charts, and graphics. He is a funny guy with some good ideas (and some crazy ones, that just might work).

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Jan 10, 2008

Elaine rated it:

I found myself laughing, thinking, and being down right scared at times as I read this book. It took me a while to get used to the change in subject and the off shoots(ADD moments), but it would not be Glenn Beck without them. Overall, this book gives what it promises, political issues from a perspective you just don't hear.

My favorite quote is, "As a parent of a toddler you mission is clear: Keep Them Alive."

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Jun 02, 2008

Walter rated it:

This book made me, laugh, think, and laugh some more. While I don't agree with everything that Glenn Beck says, I must admit that he more on the ball than any other political commentator I have listened to. He has this novel approach with stories, he actually investigates them! Whereas most "conservative" political commentators are merely spokespeople for the Republican Party, Glenn is a spokesman for actual conservative family values.

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May 27, 2008

Anthony rated it:

If you have a sense of humor, don’t take yourself too seriously, and can take off the kaleidoscope glasses of contemporary liberal thought long enough to take an honest look at the world, you have to love Glenn Beck. Glenn is a funny guy, a smart guy, and sometimes a scary guy. Glenn frequently, self-depreciatingly, refers to himself as a rodeo clown. If you know what the rodeo clowns are really doing down there in the arena you may agree that this reference is actually a pretty accurate alle More...

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Mar 25, 2008

Doran rated it:

Oh, you were really surprised when you came across this book review, weren't you? Yeah, I'm a big Glenn Beck fan. Proof of just how nuts I am about Glenn Beck: I wrote a Perl script to convert the live streams on the Glenn Beck Insider site (which include bumper music and other types of material not fit for the "podcast" MP3s) into MP3 or Ogg files I can listen to when I want. Yeah. I'm a fan... a geeky fan.

Okay, so about this book... It is very, very good. In my opinion, t More...

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Dec 30, 2007

Jake rated it:

Hey, the guy's a conservative commentator, so obviously, take a lot of what he says with a grain of salt (just like you should Al Gore). But Glenn Beck is one of the few commentators out there that tries to break things down objectively, and then offers up solutions that come from a more conservative point of view. I can relate to such a worldview.

The book could've earned 5 stars for me, except for the fact that he muddies the message with sections on stuff like tipping and raising t More...

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Feb 03, 2009

Marcus rated it:

So far just a bunch of Republican rhetoric and unsupported "facts." Lots of "statistics" but Beck doesn't list a single authority for them. His brilliant solution to the problem of global warming is to do nothing. What a genius. His use of the English language is uninspiring to say the least and his pathetic attempts at humor fall far short of even a mild tickle (racism and bald-faced elitism are apparently not funny--who knew). I'm only reading it to force my brother into w More...

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Feb 17, 2008

Adam rated it:

It's a pretty good book. He offers great insights into some of the media driven liberal ideologies that seem to be crammed down our throat everywhere you look today (such as Global Warming, Minimum Wage, Illegal Immigration). But he also has some great chapters on personal lives, dating, marriage, parenting, etc. And his voice is spot on; if you've ever seen his show or heard him talk, you can hear him saying the words as you read them.

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Feb 09, 2008

Teresa rated it:

I'm not much of a Glenn Beck watcher/listener, but my husband is. I got this book for him for Christmas and he read it in an impressively short period of time. (He doesn't really like reading.) He really wanted me to read it, too. I must admit that most of what Glenn Beck conveyed in this book made a LOT of sense. It wasn't an incredibly fast read for me because the book's layout is more like a text book. But his "A.D.D. Moments" are quite entertaining. This book informs as well More...

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Feb 06, 2008

Darin rated it:

Anyone who has an appreciation for sharp wit and sarcasm will enjoy this book. This book, like many books in its genre, has parts that every reader will likely not agree with...but...it does have some good information and is an entertaiing read. It is not the drawn and dry style so many books in its genre are written in. This book will likely get you in front of your computer researching topics brought to light in this book...and you may be surprised what you will learn.

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Feb 03, 2008

Alan rated it:

WARNING: If you are a liberal whose sensitivities are easily upset, you may be offended by this book. This is not politically correct. However, Glenn's highly slanted, sometimes abrasive observations more often than not fit with my own. I think that much of the material is presented in a humorous way; Al Gore probably would not. It's also chock full of warnings about the dangerous path on which our nation is heading.

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Feb 09, 2008

Mark rated it:

This book was hilarious. I've been listening to Glenn for over 6 years and couldn't wait to read this. It was hilarious, educational, true, and did I mention pee your pants hilarious. He actually proved with charts and graphs that global warming is not caused by Carbon emissions, but by people giving their kids "Ca" names, like Caleb, Cameron, Caden, Calista, etc. Would recommend to anyone.

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Aug 05, 2008

Mary Jane rated it:

Glenn Beck is my best friend, who never calls. I love his opinion on politics and I am usually with him 100% of the time. He is amazing. He is one of my heros.

I finished this book for a second time. On our long drive to Illinois, I read it to my husband. It is a great read. Each chapter is a different topic.

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Feb 19, 2008

Don rated it:

Glenn Beck is a funny guy with good common sense and realistic viewpoints on the world's "problems." Funny as heck in certain places and serious in others, it's a good read.

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May 24, 2008

Shannon rated it:

A friend mentioned that she thought this book was really quite funny, but I had a very hard time with it.
For someone who professes to land in the middle of a lot of issues, I didn't see that. Perhaps the "humor" comes across better in a radio show than in a book. I must admit I've never listened to him.
I agree with other readers who felt that the better parts of the book were where he stopped trying to be funny and just expressed his views.
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Aug 11, 2010

Toni rated it:

I picked up this book at the library just out of curiosity. Previously, the only thing I knew about Beck was that he was an outspoken conservative. That's putting it mildly. I didn't read all this book - just about four chapters on various social issues such as immigration, marriage/divorce, raising children, and education. Beck does have an entertaining since of humor, but I don't really like him. Yes, there are some of his ideas that I can somewhat agree with, but he's ruled by absolutes More...

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Aug 03, 2009

Brett rated it:

This was an intersting book by Glenn Beck. I don't agree with everything he says, but like he claims, he is a thinker and he does come up with some good ideas. There was a lot of humor, and you either like or hate his kind of humor. I happen to like it. I thought it was funny that he devoted an entire chapter to how bad he is with remembering names, and really offered no serious information. The only reason I can think of for him to write this particular chapter was so he could show a graph More...

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May 09, 2010

John rated it:

Interesting ideas, lousy presentation. In some chapters, Beck gives you great information ("Global Warming" and "Opinion Polls" are two such good ones), but a few of them are just inane ("Choosing the Right Movie" and "Parenting," for example). Beck's laid-back writing style will be considered a breath of fresh air by people who don't like to read, and overly lazy and simpistic by people who do. The big problem for me, though, is that I just don't care More...

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Dec 22, 2010

travelgirlut rated it:

Half of this book gets 3 stars, the other half gets 2. This book blends together an odd assortment of topics, from global warming and immigration to blind-dating and movie rentals. I would have been perfectly happy if this book had kept the political topics and gotten rid of the ones that were put in to be funny/witty, whatever they were meant to be. Also, the topics themselves felt truncated and abrupt. Just when I was getting into global warming, I turn the page and find I'm now going to b More...

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Jul 30, 2011

Ronald rated it:

I had never heard the author's radio show or seen his television show, but from the subtitle to this book I expected an approximation of an Ann Coulter/Bill O'Reilly hybrid. When he started off with a dismissal of global climate change based on Al Gore's use of a private jet, and concerns over the growing income disparity in America based on John Edward's wealth, I thought, "Yep, here we go again." I was later surprised by Beck's amusing insight when he discussed topics of a more perso More...

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Jan 07, 2010

Alisha rated it:

I found this book to be very intelligently, and often funny, written. It wasn’t just a bunch of right-wing rhetoric slapped on pages and tossed out to the public. On occasion, Beck even agrees with the left, often the right, but mostly he lands somewhere in the middle with his own well-researched thoughts and ideas. It is set up in textbook style, with inserts and graphs and illustrations to further make his points. With the chapter on Child Molesters, he makes it a point to say that this i More...

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Aug 02, 2011

Samuel rated it:

As always, Glenn Beck attacks the issues head on with his humor and witt. My only dissapointment is that after reading "Common Sense" and "Arguing With Idiots", I expected "An Incovenient Book" to have much more facts than it does- this book is mostly opinion. The first chapter is awesome, and the only reason I rented the book was to read the facts about Global Warming. A lot of Glenn Beck's book is opinion on marriage, parenting, and getting along with your spou More...

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Apr 08, 2010

Jeffrey rated it:

This book upgraded my opinion of Glen Beck. Anybody could guess that that wouldn't be hard to do. He is now somewhere between Diane Rings and Keith Olbermann on the universal nutjob scale (lets call it at a 68). I did not find the book funny, anywhere close to the world's biggest problems, and having any sort of a reasonable solutions to the problems he did see (other than relationships (don't be an idiot). Fundamentally, he is doing what all the other talking heads do. State a few facts or More...

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Jul 09, 2009

Dave rated it:

Was given this book for Father's Day. I listen to Glen Beck occasionly and enjoy what he has to say most of the time so I was anxious to read it.

Like other reviewers I think this book works best if you don't try to read it cover to cover.
- Read a chapter.
- Set it aside for a couple of days.
- Read another chapter.

Who should read it? Everyone. I found some of it hilarious and some of it disturbing for multiple reasons.

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May 15, 2009

Grace rated it:

This book alternates between scaring me to death and making me laugh. The section about Islamic extremists made my stomach churn--very scary! I haven't watched, listened to or read Mr. Beck before. Now I'm done with the book, I'm thinking that Mr. Beck is conservative, but maybe not replubican. I think he may be a libertarian; albeit a conservative one. If you read any of John Stossel's books, one of which he confesses his political leanings--libertarian--you will find that many of their way More...

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Jan 13, 2008

Nick rated it:

A great book that is full of humorous comments and viewpoints on various serious and not-so-serious "problems" we face in the world today. Glenn Beck does a great job of keeping the book entertaining yet very informative.

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