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Title: Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American by Michael Moore ISBN: 0-06-097733-7 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 17 September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.03 (118 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hit 'em hard, then kick them when they are down....
Comment: I was ill in bed and my wife bought Downsize this to cheer me up. I read it in less than a day. The book is hilarious, and Michael Moore has his facts right. His thesis throughout the book, and indeed throughout his early production, is that big corporations must stop accept government money and then fire most of their workforceto increase their already immense profits. He connects corporate greed to racism and corrupt politicians. His piece on congressman Robert Dornan is just superb! For me as a European this open corruption and greed in politicians in the USA is strange. Of course our politicians also lie and are corrupt, but they are a bit more discrete about it. And many of them are caught and forced to resign. We do not have this worship of Big Business.
At times the book becomes a bit rambling, but I can forgive that.
I hope more people will read and understand this book, and then go out and vote.
Rating: 5
Summary: Michael's Best
Comment: Written well before Bowling for Columbine, this book is no doubt Michael's best. Satirical, yet not with the somtimes idiotic and overbearingness of his later books.
Rating: 4
Summary: A great book!
Comment: Michael Moore's 1996 book "Downsize This, Random Threats From an Unarmed American" is a great book that shows how messed up America really is. He starts out by giving a list of guidelines to use, that he compiled from different memos, when downsizing a company. He did a great job at putting the list together, it's funny, but at the same time, you know that what he is saying is true. His ability to write about serious issues goes throughout the whole book. Moore has this in-your-face attitude that makes him everybody's hero. He talks about the issues that really matter to the majority of Americans, and tells the side of the story that we never hear about. Like when he talks about terrorism. He first states what we all know and pretty much agree on, that when people purposely do something to destroy other people's lives, like blow up a building, that's terrorism. But then he brings up a point that is never talked about, or heard on the news. Like, why isn't it that when a company closes a plant, and thousands of people lose their jobs, and are barely able to survive, why isn't that called terrorism? A lot of people who do have that happen to them turn to alcohol and/or drugs, which will kill them too. Crime rates go up, and so does the murder rate. So people's lives are still be destroyed, but just by large corporations instead of a group a people. This is just one example of how Moore can totally mix things up, and give a whole different perspective on all sorts of issues. However, to some his sarcasm might be crossing the line, but I enjoyed it and am glad that I had the opportunity to read it.
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Title: Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore ISBN: 0060392452 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore ISBN: 0446532231 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Adventures in a TV Nation by Michael Moore, Kathleen Glynn ISBN: 0060988096 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title:Roger & Me ASIN: B00009YXAS Publisher: Warner Home Video Pub. Date: 19 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $16.99 |
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Title:Bowling for Columbine ASIN: B00008DDVV Publisher: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pub. Date: 18 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.99 |
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