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The Elements Of F*cking Style: A Helpful Parody (2011)

by Chris Baker(Favorite Author)

4.02 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

031258377X (ISBN13: 9780312583774)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

review 1: This is what happens when two man-children decide it would be hilarious to juxtapose a serious, ``brainy'' topic with naughty words and belligerent anti-intellectualism, but neither actually has the brains or the attention span to pull off the serious part.The result is a pamphlet ever shorter than Strunk & White itself, in which the authors, more than just being misogynist and racist and all the other things usually associated with fratire (an overly generous term for a genre that tends to lack the introspection needed to be satirical), also come off as arrogant and pretentious, which is something Strunk and White never were—because they actually knew what they were talking about.
review 2: I've created a humor shelf for this book. This book is a funny subst... moreitute for the most bought but unread guide to English grammar. As the authors guessed, I bought a copy of the book they're mocking in college and never read it. But I read this book in about an hour at a Barnes and Noble in Ann Arbor. Baker is crude and distasteful, but he gets the job done. Now that I'm back in school and will be writing research papers again, one thing is for sure: It was a good idea to read this book. less

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