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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300885.Silent_Bob_Speaks?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Silent Bob Speaks" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173532765m/300885.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300885.Silent_Bob_Speaks?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Silent Bob Speaks</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8236.Kevin_Smith">Kevin Smith</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16496206?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>This book is a collection of Smith's articles from Arena magazine. The first half was very good, and also incredibly funny. It made me want to watch his movies, and he also convinced me that I should reconsider my dislike of Ben Affleck. His story about meeting David Duchovny was so funny, and Smith seems to be at his best when he's being the ultimate fanboy. <br/> <br/>However, the second half of the book became very tedious and mostly consisted of unfunny dirty jokes and name dropping. Just because you have interacted with a celebrity does not mean said celebrity is awesome. He also spent a lot of time defending the Bennifer relationship, and after about the third announcement of his love for them it just got embarrassing. I had high hopes concerning his Tom Cruise interview, but he basically did exactly what every other celebrity does when they interview Tom Cruise: they're all, "See? He's awesome. He talks about everything, including Scientology!" when in reality they've just taken Cruise's ambiguous sentence fragments and made them sound coherent. The last essay is just stupid, and the magazine that had hired him to write it refused to publish it. Since Arena published it Smith is under the impression that they thought it was as awesome as he did, but it was probably more like Arena was kissing his ass because he's a celebrity in the exact same way that Smith kisses the asses of every celebrity he encounters (except, of course, for Reese Witherspoon). To be fair the last half does include one of his best essays, in which he discusses Attack of the Clones and the reasons behind Anakin turning to the dark side. <br/> <br/>I would still recommend this book because the first half is so funny that it almost makes up for the tedious downslope of the rest of the book. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/248126?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>