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Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide To Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy And Stupid (2008)

by Denis Leary(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0670031607 (ISBN13: 9780670031603)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Viking Adult

review 1: EDITORIAL REVIEW:**A hilarious blast of scathing irreverence from the award-winning actor and comedian**.“A pissed off Leary is the best Leary,” says one critic of the writer and comic. In *Why We Suck*, Dr. Denis Leary uses his common sense, and his biting and hilarious take on the world, to attack the politically correct, the hypocritical, the obese, the thin--basically everyone who takes themselves too seriously. He does so with the extra oomph of a doctorate bestowed upon him by his alma mater Emerson College. “Sure it’s just a celebrity type of thing--they only gave it to me because I’m famous.” Leary explains. “But it’s legal and it means I get to say I’m a doctor--just like Dr. Phil.” In *Why We Suck*, Leary’s famously smart style and sardonic ... morewit have found their fullest and fiercest expression yet. Zeroing in on the ridiculous wherever he finds it, Leary unravels his Irish Catholic upbringing, the folly of celebrity, the pressures of family life, and the great hypocrisy of politics with the same bright, savage, and profane insight he brought to his critically acclaimed one-man shows *No Cure for Cancer* and *Lock ’n Load*, and his platinum-selling song, “Asshole.” Proudly Irish American, defiantly working class, with a reserve of compassion for the underdog and the overlooked, Leary delivers blistering diatribes that are penetrating social commentary with no holds barred. Leary’s book will find wide appeal among people who want to laugh out loud or find a guide who matches their view of what’s wrong in America and the world-at-large; and fans of his one-man shows, his many movies, and *Rescue Me*, Leary’s Golden Globe and Emmy–nominated television show. *Why We Suck* is the latest salvo from one of America’s most original and biting comic satirists.
review 2: I love Denis Leary....as a comedian (stand-up satirist?), an actor (see Tommy in Rescue Me) and, now, as a writer. I don't know what I loved more about the book - the parts where I nodded with tears in my eyes and/or was laughing out loud OR the parts that were soooo irreverent and crass and shocking. His reminiscences of growing up in a Catholic school/home made me nostalgic about my childhood - like when a sibling scuffle at my house in the late '50's ended up with one kid with a pencil sticking out of her knee. Ahhhhhh, the good old days! He gets family. He gets raising kids. He gets personal responsibility. He gets how men and women have different play books (he actually echoes some thoughts of Chaucer from "The Canterbury Tales"). He begins the book by explaining to - well - idjits (Gaelic for idiots) that the book is satire. "Satire= Literature that ridicules individuals and/or society ~ their vices and/or follies (foolishness) to affect change in the readers' attitudes - and eventually their words and actions." Leary's hilarious, yet at times vexing work, achieves this to me. PS his mom's few "recipes" in the book made me laugh so hard:"Cabbage Potato Chuck Roast"14 sticks of butterPinch of saltCabbage 700 potatoes2 pound chuck roast beef....then the actual cooking directions are even funnier.I would love to meet his mom and hug the stuffing out of her!! She did good! less

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