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The Best Of McSweeney's Internet Tendency (2014)

by Chris Monks(Favorite Author)

4.01 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1938073797 (ISBN13: 9781938073793)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

McSweeney's

review 1: Summary: Back in 1998, the internet was young and wild and free. Along with listservs, pornography, and listservs dedicated to pornography, there was a website that ran all its articles in the same font and within abnormally narrow margins. This site was called McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and many dozens of people read it. Now, fifteen years later, most of those readers have died, but the Tendency still exists, publishing, every day, quasi-humor writing in the same font within the same abnormally narrow margins. The site has no ads, and no revenue prospects, and thus, every year or so, we collect some of the site’s better material and attempt to trick readers into paying for a curated, glued-together version of what is available online for free. This collection is t... morehe best and most brazen of such attempts. Please enjoy it, after you have paid for it.
review 2: Some of the classics in here are solid 5 starers: "It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers," "I'm Comic Sans, Asshole," "In Which I Fix My Girlfriend's Grandparents' Wi-Fi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero." If you've not read these before, a) you should be embarrassed, and b) go and read them online right now and then go buy this book, because these essays deserve to live with you in your house in hard copy. A very thoughtful friend gave me this book as a gift, and while I at first expected that it would just be a nice thing to own, to leaf through occasionally, I ended up reading it cover to cover. Great to revisit the old favs, which never fail to deliver, and to come across some new beauts I'd somehow managed to never read before. I read most of these essays first thing in the morning, before getting out of bed. I just grabbed the white book off the top of the pile on my nightstand and read a piece or two. I have the extreme luxury of doing this because I don't have children. Highly recommended way to use this book. You'll start the day off right. less

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