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by Joe Rychetnik (Illustrator: Sandy Jamieson)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Epicenter Press (1995-10-01)
ISBN: 0945397445
EAN: 9780945397441
Dewy Decimal #: 629.1309798
Paperback: 158 pages
SKU: 073108037
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...No noticeable Underlining or Highlighting...minor wear on cover
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Joe Rychetnik's laugh-a-line book reveals the not-so-glamorous truth about an earlier era of aviation in Alaska when breaking the rules was the rule.
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Alaska's Sky Follies
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-02-15
This book is an authentic series of exciting stories about the incredible bush flying. Having spent a few years in Alaska, I can attest to their accuracy. It is a series of thrilling stories. I recommend this book to anyone interested in flying and it's history in Alaska. It reports avation skills at the top end.
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Laughs on the wing
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-12-08
Alaska Sky Follies has the making of an Alaskan aviation classic. A series of great stories that will keep you chuckling on those long winter nights and jiggling the coffee in your cup. Well written and fast moving, it belongs on the shelf of all those interested in flying or Alaska.
I also highly recommend, Flying North South East and West, a great read on a young couples struggles to start their life in Alaska. The book is filled with aviation that starts in the north, and progresses to the sands of Africa. It also covers a ignored segment of aviation history, Cargo Flying. Strap in and come along on a expedition to the North Pole in a bush plane, then cargo flying four engine jets to Africa, and bush flying 737's on slick runways in the north country. Another great read.
Flying North South East and West: Arctic to the Sahara
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A Fun Book
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-01-16
This is for anyone who is into 1) Alaska, 2) Flying small planes, 3) humorous stories. Some of the stories are too strange to have been made up. This is a collection of short true stories from Alaskan bush pilots of the 1950's onward. Some are hilarious, some are hilarious only because no one got hurt and we can laugh about it now. It is a good quick read for someone who wants the flavor of the Alaskan frontier. It is a short book but fun to read. highly recommended.
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An entertaining read
Rating (4)
Date: 2000-02-13
7 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
Rychetnik provides a brief yet entertaining look into the bush pilots of Alaska. His presentation is humorous and easy to read. Definitely worth a look for all those interested in the funnier side of bush flying.
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by Ashleigh Brilliant
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Woodbridge Press Publishing Company (1997-05)
ISBN: 0880072164
EAN: 9780880072168
Dewy Decimal #: 818.5402
Paperback: 160 pages
SKU: 072208014
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...No noticeable Underlining or Highlighting...minor wear on cover
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A dazzling collection of witty and wise Pot Shots, or Brilliant Thoughts . . . illustrated epigrams that will inspire your personal quest for telling communication. Fresh, funny, wistful, bright; they may well reflect some of your own deep or whimsical thoughts. Ashleigh's Pot Shots are acclaimed, told and re-told, by young and old, secular and religious, mainstream and offbeat they speak to everyone. What they say: Clifton Fadiman: Most enjoyable; Isaac Asimov: Good one-liners; Richard Armour: Wise, and witty; People magazine: Artistic trailblazer, Ashleigh Brilliant coins epigrams that would drive Oscar wild.>Ashleigh's Pot Shots are copyrighted and the names Pot Shots and Brilliant Thoughts are registered trademarks.
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medication
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-03-29
6 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
I have had very depressed and/or bitter patients who break out laughing in the reception room after 3-5 minutes of reading this book. I mean tears coming out in a cathartic relief.
My own "Ashleigh Brilliant" is:
"I like you so much I miss you even when I'm with you".
Dr. Barry Manvel
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Wonderfully chuckley humor. Makes me smile.
Rating (5)
Date: 1999-06-09
7 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is very humorous. It brings to mind many of the bits of life I have lived. The best part is that it is not isolated issues. In addition, the sketches add a great deal to the total humor. I just happened to come across it in the library. Such a treat. Thank you for brightening my days.
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Truthful yet extremely witty!
Rating (5)
Date: 1996-10-31
6 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
Ashleigh Brilliant has great insights into life and
our moral being.
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by Steve Allen
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (2000-12-05)
ISBN: 0609806726
EAN: 9780609806722
Dewy Decimal #: 818.5402
Paperback: 432 pages
Release Date: 2000-12-05
SKU: 072908007
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...No noticeable Underlining or Highlighting...light shelf wear on cover
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Why Did Steve Allen Cross the Road?
Steve Allen is a legend among comedians and entertainers. He's been playing to audiences on stage, radio, film, and television for more than fifty years, gaining acclaim for his unique wit and energy. Now for the first time, he shares more than a thousand of his favorite one-liners, anecdotes, limericks, quotes, and other generally funny things. The entries are divided into nearly two hundred categories to make it easy for anyone to find the right laugh for any occasion. If you're faced with the prospect of having to "say a few words," Steve Allen's Private Joke File is the perfect place to look for ideas and inspiration on such topics as awards, drinking, baseball, lawyers, dentists, insurance, marriage, the stock market, and dozens of other subjects. A sampling:
* My wife and I had words, but I never got to use mine!
* If ignorance is bliss, he should die of joy.
* "How are the acoustics here?"
"Great, I can hardly hear you!"
* I learned to rumba very early in life ... I had a tricycle with a loose seat.
* Room for rent, by young lady, freshly plastered.
Steve Allen has also included a number of his favorite essays and monologues. Steve Allen's Private Joke File is great to flip through for fun or for function, and for those of us looking for a good laugh -- to give one or to have one -- it's indispensable.
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Disappointed
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-09-09
I am a huge Steve Allen fan but I found the jokes in this book seem dated.
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I loved Steve but this but book is a disappointment:
Rating  (3)
Date: 2001-08-30
6 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
I ADORED Steve Allen. As a child I watched his show. I still remember watching the last television appearance of my hero Lou Costello, doing a solo comedy bit, his famous Army march routine, right after he split with Bud Abbott. I loved Steve Allen's syndicated show in the 60s. And about 10 years ago, I wrote him a letter telling him how much I loved his shows and his book More Funny People which contains marvelous profiles of comedians. I asked him where I could get the first edition, Funny People. About two weeks later I was shocked to open the door to find a UPS deliverman standing there with a BIG box of various autographed Steve Allen books. He had sent them to me FOR FREE -- to me, a journalist and a nobody. Today I am a fulltime ventriloquist -- a professional nobody. And I am amazed by his generosity. So rating this book three stars, especially so soon after his untimely death, is extremely sad for me. I feel like a traitor. But I have to be honest: this book is a HUGE disappointment. From the cover it looks as if he had seen Milton Berle's Private Joke File and decided to quickly put out his own. But unlike Uncle Miltie's thick two volumes of hilarious jokes, you don't sense that these were Steve Allen's best jokes or best collection of humorous material from his actual files. Berle seemed to offer readers the best that he had -- insults, puns, long jokes, roast lines, you name it. It was as if Berle was trying to pass on a legacy. Quite a few of Steve Allen's jokes are puns and other kinds of plays on words. Some are extremely old jokes found in kids joke books. Some are jokes that he apparently did use but are so incredibly dated you wonder if he even had an editor on this project. I always circle joke books and I honestly circled few here; there are SOME gems -- but if the book didn't have the name "Steve Allen" on it, the joke portions would not compare favorably to many other joke books. This book's best part is at the very end: his collection of speeches, monologues and essays. Some are too punny (he truly seems to have been heavily influenced by Groucho Marx and Groucho's plays on words)but some will indeed make you laugh out loud. The contrast between these sections and the supposedly private joke file is huge -- and the boring, done-to-death and dated stuff is not outweighed by the occasional hilarity. In all, Steve Allen's Private Joke File's content does not live up to the brand name. I almost gave this four stars in deference to a comic great. But I had to be honest: if his name was not on it, this would qualify as a VERY weak joke book.
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A mixed bag of mostly dated material
Rating (3)
Date: 2001-07-29
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
The late Steve Allen was a very smart and successful entertainer and writer. He is known to have started The Tonight Show and he published shelves full of books and songs. But this collection is lacking in a few areas-and this makes it a frustrating book. First, like Dumbth (another of his popular books), Allen beats the reader over the head with political agendas that severely detract from the reading. Sure, he might be right that TV violence can be bad, but is a joke book really the forum for such diatribes? Also, MANY of the jokes are so dated that the book seems like an antique though it was published just last year (2000). One joke starts: "Color television will be here soon." Another jokes about a vacuum salesman who goes to a house that has only gas and no electricity. Perhaps your great-grandmother will chuckle. Lastly, many of the jokes are so poorly put into context that they are impossible to understand. Some are not even complete one-liners: more like half-liners. A few jokes are sentence fragments. The reader longs for a good set-up and punchline. Many of the jokes smack of situations that were clearly funny to Allen when they occured (in the 50s?) but without having been there, I am left wondering where the humor is. There are several quips about stars of movies from decades ago. If you are not familiar with people like "Otto Preminger," forget trying to read this book. Under the heading of Shakespeare (there's one joke): "Shakespeare wrote a play about Popeye called Merchant of Spinach." That's funny? Clearly not because it's not a clever pun, nor does it make sense. Especially when we know that Popeye didn't sell spinach. He only consumed it. I could come up with puns like this all night. But I am not going to publish them. Also, these are family-oriented (though it would be perfect for a pre-1960s family) and some of the jokes are funnier when the reader tries to find unintended adult humor between the lines. All-in-all, this collection is tame and dated and frustrating, but if you just want to buy your grandparents a nice gift, they will adore this collection. ADDENDUM: To restate what another reviewer mentioned, the monologues and longer passages at the end of the book are actually rather funny because they have a context in which to make true humor.
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Miss Steve Allen with a smile
Rating (4)
Date: 2001-03-15
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
He invented in the talk show and was a true gentleman of comedy. This book is a time capsule of what great comedy was in the 50 years steve allen was on the scene. the most imitated man in show business, and the author of countless books, is perhaps the most qualified to give us the ultimate joke book. Not only will the amateur emcee or speech maker find comedic gold to mine, but the fans of Steves classic TV show while find many of his witty monologues and essays. The only negative criticism I'd have of this book is that joke books can be trying to read. It's more a comedic reference than anything else. You won't find yourself curl;ing up by the fire to read one liner after one liner, but the section of monologues provides much before bed delight! If you were saddened by steve's passing, you'll find plenty to sm,ile about here. In short, a great memento of the talent and an even greater comedic resource. Younger comics could learn that wit gets more laughs than vulgarity form this book!
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by McSweeney's
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Vintage (2008-04-01)
ISBN: 030738733X
EAN: 9780307387332
Dewy Decimal #: 818.5402080357
Paperback: 224 pages
Release Date: 2008-04-01
SKU: 112108007
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...no markings or highlighting...light shelf wear on cover
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As John Hodgman says in this book's introduction, “We all know that books are funny. First, they are made of paste and cloth, which is funny, as is the fact that people still buy and read them.” With that in mind, the McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes collects the best book-related humor from the humor-laden archives of McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Open it and be regaled by such sketches, lists, letters, and spoofs as:
Postcards from James Joyce to his Brother Stan
Winnie-the-Pooh is My Coworker
Ikea Product or Lord of the Rings Character?
Popular Children's Fairy Tales Reimagined Using Members of My Family
The Very Unauthorized Biography of Steven Seagal
Chuck Norris Erotica
John Updike, Television Writer
Jane Eyre Runs for President
Cormac McCarthy Writes to the Editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican
Holden Caulfield Gives the Commencement Speech to a High School
Letters from Odysseus's College Roommate
And many dozens more.
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We Are No Longer Accepting Robot Monkey-Themed Submissions
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-10-17
Virtually all anthologies are uneven, and The Joke Book of Book Jokes is no exception. But while not every piece herein delivers the comic goods, the ratio is certainly good enough to warrant a favorable review. And the funny contributions are REALLY funny.
I'd single out Christopher Monk's "Submission Guidelines for Our Refrigerator Door" as being particularly sublime. It's a wonderful mash-up of parental in-jokes and those oh-so familiar writer guidelines. (Please note, Mr. Monk is no longer accepting Robot Monkey-themed work for his refrigerator, be it drawings, stories, or whatever.)
To give you an idea of the book's contents, what follows are two sample chapter endings from "Thrilling Chapter Endings You May Use in Your Next Novel" by Zhubin Parang.
*****
1.) [PROTAGONIST] grimly shook his head, knowing that his plan was not working, and also that the person reading this book has no idea that right now there is a Mad About You marathon on TV.
NOTE: This is a long shot, but if it works, the reader will be totally freaked out.
*****
2.) "Does this mean we're breaking up?" [MALE PROTAGONIST] asked, struggling to keep his voice from breaking.
"I think so," [FEMALE PROTAGONIST] whispered, as tears rolled down her cheek. "I just think we've grown apart... I'm so sorry."
[MALE PROTAGONIST] slowly nodded, and his thoughts briefly flitted to the day they first met, that summer after freshman year, when the world seemed to BOO!
NOTE: Ideally, this ending should be used in conjunction with some sort of timed firecracker device hidden in the book's binding. Talk to your publisher.
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McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes
Rating (4)
Date: 2008-07-27
The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes by McSweeney's: When Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists hit book shelves with the cover of a triumphant, ethereal, blue, rearing unicorn, readers curiously started reading and then found themselves bursting with laughter, buying the book, and entertaining friends with it. The editors of McSweeney's return with The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes; and if the title doesn't capture your interest, maybe the cover of a plucked headless chicken - with a smoking cigarette in one flabby wing, while smoke effuses from its cylindrical hole of a neck - will.
With an introduction from John Hodgman about the cash cow industry of satire, McSweeney's aims its new book at the intellectual crowd as jokes and humor are procured at the expense of classic works and authors revered in collegiate halls. The first piece, The Recruitment of Harry Potter, is from the viewpoint of a quidditch coach looking to recruit Harry Potter to the team. It warns to stay away from talk about He Who Must Not Be Named and anything involving family. From this we go to George Samsa, currently dealing with his life as a cockroach, having his disability claim denied by Social Security for very specific reasons.
McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes runs the gamut of literature, leaving no book unopened or unmocked. There are short pieces, such as Possible Titles For Future Sue Grafton Novels After She Runs Out of Letters, including: "/" Is for Slash and "Ctrl+X" Is for Cut; and there are longer pieces like Submission Guidelines For Our Refrigerator Door. Then there are plain weird and unusual pieces like Thirteen Writing Prompts, including 'Write a story that ends with the following sentence: Debra brushed the sand from her blouse, took a last, wistful look at the now putrefying horse, and stepped into the hot-air balloon,' and 'Your main character finds a box of scorched human hair. Whose is it? How did it get there?'
Whether it's Jane Eyre Runs for President or Jean-Paul Sartre, 911 Operator, or Klingon Fairy Tales, readers will be laughing out loud and rolling on the floor - or if you prefer LOLing and ROFLing - for hours. And for all those people forced to read long and boring classics, or listen to their teachers verbally worshiping dead writers, McSweeney's Joke of Book Jokes is a restorative tonic, the book you've been waiting for that will make those hours and hours of late night reading of lengthy, overwritten prose worth it, because you'll get all the jokes!
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Laugh out loud
Rating (4)
Date: 2008-05-20
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes (Vintage)
I laughted out loud at the various stories and short articles. This book has something for everyone in it.
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Lucky us-a literary joke book
Rating (4)
Date: 2008-04-12
11 out of 12 customers found this reveiw helpful
I truly love to laugh. In fact I relish in it. I also love to read. So when something I happen to be reading makes me literally laugh out loud, I am nearing Nirvana. The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes helped me approach that state from page one. It is a collection of shorts, ranging from letters to stories, from authors who take some of our most famous books and literary situations and twist them into things that are nothing short of hilarious.
This particular joke book is unlike any other I have ever perused. It pokes fun at the very thing it is: a piece of writing. Starting right out of the gate with a snippet entitled "The Recruitment of Harry Potter" and staying strong with tales of Humbert Humbert's appearance on "To Catch a Predator," to official guidelines for a writer submitting works for a refrigerator door, this collection will have you chuckling to yourself in some places and flat out guffawing in others.
You do need to be on top of your literary toes for some of the jokes. No genre is safe from teasing and unless you have read everything from Harry Potter to the Iliad, you may not get some of the humor. On the flip side, not getting a joke in the book is great motivation to research the background of the joke and find another book you can fall in love with.
This book is flat out funny and well worth the read. Pick up a copy of McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes and put down whatever you are drinking...you don't want to snort it out of your nose when you laugh!
Armchair Interviews agrees.
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