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Power Moves: Livin' The American Dream, USA Style (2013)

by Karl Welzein(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0062233238 (ISBN13: 9780062233233)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

It Books

review 1: Do you enjoy the @dadboner Twitter account? If so, you'll like this. It follows some of his earlier tweets, before he had a large following, but expands on some stuff so at least some of the material is fresh. It surprisingly didn't get too tiresome, though I'll admit I generally wouldn't read more than 20 pages at a time. It's a solid, light book, good for refreshing your palette between heavier subject matters.
review 2: It wasn't until after I read this book that I learned that the author does not exist. He is the fictional alter ego of an LA comedian, and this book is the product of what started as a popular twitter account. Karl is just the kind of hopeless, overweight, sexist, ignorant, alcoholic you can't help loving. This is partly because he doesn't... more know how hopeless he is, and he has a joie de vivre to rival anyone, despite having few reasons to. Reading this book is kind of like watching a train wreck, and you cringe delightfully as he gets himself into one terrible situation after another. Karl to some extent represents the worst in American society, and I am reminded of my father-in-law's common phrase, "This is why the Taliban hates us." The Taliban would hate this book. My only criticism is that there is no real plot - it could be about the self-destruction of Karl, but he was so close to begin with that it doesn't seem like much of a trip. less

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