Steve H. Graham
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The Good, The Spam and The Ugly is about a man who began responding to spam e-mails, attempting to see what ridiculous lies he could cause spammers to believe. His goal was to see how long they would continue responding as he gave sillier excuses for being unable to send them money yet. It was surprising what he got away with, although as he suggests, this may reflect the spammers’ ignorance of American culture.
The book started off really well, with a humorous introduction by the author and I had high hopes for the rest of the book. However, while funny, the book failed to live up to my expectations. There were definitely some funny parts and some of the exchanges where the author causes spammers to e-mail each other were the funniest conversations. However, there were a lot of e-mails from spammers all following the same general formula and the author’s e-mails were mostly of the sort which would be funny to 13-year-old boys. In part because of the skimmable scammer e-mails, this was a very quick read, 3 hours tops.
The author’s writing and his explanations of the e-mails were by far funnier than the e-mails themselves and it was simply unfortunate there wasn’t more commentary. Although the book wasn’t as funny as I hoped, I wouldn’t hesitate to read another book by the author if the format involved more of the author’s own writing.… (meer)
The book started off really well, with a humorous introduction by the author and I had high hopes for the rest of the book. However, while funny, the book failed to live up to my expectations. There were definitely some funny parts and some of the exchanges where the author causes spammers to e-mail each other were the funniest conversations. However, there were a lot of e-mails from spammers all following the same general formula and the author’s e-mails were mostly of the sort which would be funny to 13-year-old boys. In part because of the skimmable scammer e-mails, this was a very quick read, 3 hours tops.
The author’s writing and his explanations of the e-mails were by far funnier than the e-mails themselves and it was simply unfortunate there wasn’t more commentary. Although the book wasn’t as funny as I hoped, I wouldn’t hesitate to read another book by the author if the format involved more of the author’s own writing.… (meer)
(Alistair) I like food.
No, let me rephrase that. I really like food. I love food! I love eating food, I'm pretty keen on making food and then eating it, and basically, that food stuff is all good. If they came to me tomorrow and said, "Okay, we can put an orgasmic-ecstasy-on-demand wire in your pleasure center tomorrow, but in exchange you have to agree to only eat gruel for the rest of ever", I'd tell 'em where to stick their wire, and it wouldn't be in my brain. You see where I'm coming from, yes?
As such, you can also imagine my opinions on the undressed-green-salad (sans interesting vegetables) and tofu, anti-meat, anti-sugar, anti-fat, anti-carbohydrate - hey, has anyone come out against proteins, yet? - anti-trans-fat, anti-egg, anti-this, anti-that, you-may-live-longer-but-you'll-be-bloody-miserable-doing-it food police and their hanger-on weenies. I hope you can imagine them, anyway, since even our generous defamation laws prevent me from actually blogging them.
There's eating healthily most of the time, and then there's being a jackass about it, y'know?
Anyway. For those other times - and really, it has to be only for those other times, because if you dined solely on the recipes in this book, you'd have a coronary inside a month. When the author subtitled it "The World's Unhealthiest Cookbook", he wasn't kidding.
But for those other times when you fancy something supremely and outrageously decadent, like "Breakfast as a Mind-Altering Drug", "Propane Steak", "Champagne Chicken", "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Hot Fudge Dessert (PMS Remedy)", or my personal soon-to-be-favorite, "Yeast-Raised Doughnuts Fried in Lard", this is the cookbook for you. I look forward to occasionally eating from it immensely.
Also - and Amy can testify to this, since I read it in bed and probably kept her awake by doing it - it's a very funny book. Possibly not to everyone's taste, since to quote one Amazon review:
Not only does this book contain "sick twisted humor," as stated by another reviewer, it is foul-mouthed and dishonorable. I don't know how anyone could want to eat anything after looking through this book.
So, essentially, don't buy it if you're a) easily offended, or b) suffer from the kind of metaphorical ass-stick that makes you cringe inside or tut with disapproval when reading, say, Stuff White People Like. It violates, so far as I can tell, every rule of so-called political correctness that I've ever heard, and then goes looking for a few more.
But it's funny as hell.
(As a final, random and mostly irrelevant note, the pig in the cover art looks like it was deeply annoyed by having that apple stuffed in its mouth and being roasted.)
( http://weblog.siliconcerebrate.com/cerebrate/2008/04/eat-what-you-want-and-die-l... )… (meer)
No, let me rephrase that. I really like food. I love food! I love eating food, I'm pretty keen on making food and then eating it, and basically, that food stuff is all good. If they came to me tomorrow and said, "Okay, we can put an orgasmic-ecstasy-on-demand wire in your pleasure center tomorrow, but in exchange you have to agree to only eat gruel for the rest of ever", I'd tell 'em where to stick their wire, and it wouldn't be in my brain. You see where I'm coming from, yes?
As such, you can also imagine my opinions on the undressed-green-salad (sans interesting vegetables) and tofu, anti-meat, anti-sugar, anti-fat, anti-carbohydrate - hey, has anyone come out against proteins, yet? - anti-trans-fat, anti-egg, anti-this, anti-that, you-may-live-longer-but-you'll-be-bloody-miserable-doing-it food police and their hanger-on weenies. I hope you can imagine them, anyway, since even our generous defamation laws prevent me from actually blogging them.
There's eating healthily most of the time, and then there's being a jackass about it, y'know?
Anyway. For those other times - and really, it has to be only for those other times, because if you dined solely on the recipes in this book, you'd have a coronary inside a month. When the author subtitled it "The World's Unhealthiest Cookbook", he wasn't kidding.
But for those other times when you fancy something supremely and outrageously decadent, like "Breakfast as a Mind-Altering Drug", "Propane Steak", "Champagne Chicken", "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Hot Fudge Dessert (PMS Remedy)", or my personal soon-to-be-favorite, "Yeast-Raised Doughnuts Fried in Lard", this is the cookbook for you. I look forward to occasionally eating from it immensely.
Also - and Amy can testify to this, since I read it in bed and probably kept her awake by doing it - it's a very funny book. Possibly not to everyone's taste, since to quote one Amazon review:
Not only does this book contain "sick twisted humor," as stated by another reviewer, it is foul-mouthed and dishonorable. I don't know how anyone could want to eat anything after looking through this book.
So, essentially, don't buy it if you're a) easily offended, or b) suffer from the kind of metaphorical ass-stick that makes you cringe inside or tut with disapproval when reading, say, Stuff White People Like. It violates, so far as I can tell, every rule of so-called political correctness that I've ever heard, and then goes looking for a few more.
But it's funny as hell.
(As a final, random and mostly irrelevant note, the pig in the cover art looks like it was deeply annoyed by having that apple stuffed in its mouth and being roasted.)
( http://weblog.siliconcerebrate.com/cerebrate/2008/04/eat-what-you-want-and-die-l... )… (meer)
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