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Title: What's Not to Love? : The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer by Jonathan Ames ISBN: 0-375-72649-7 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.16 (32 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: What's not to love? Ames made an 8 hour flight to Rome fun!
Comment: An eight-hour flight across the Atlantic is never fun. Right? Well, in most cases the answer is an emphatic "right!" But, there are a few exceptions, and one of those exceptions would read as follows, "An eight hour flight across the Atlantic is never fun, UNLESS you are reading "What's Not to Love? : The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer" by Jonathan Ames." I am being honest when I tell you that on many occasions during the flight and the ensuing train ride to Venice, I encountered perplexed looks from the Italians as I roared out loud at Ames' riveting accounts of his personal adventures, triumphs, mishaps, idiosyncrasies, and follies.
In a time when we are barraged with images of violence from home and abroad, the hilarious (and vivid) image of Mr. Ames sitting in an undersized bath tub rubbing his head with a scalp "invigorator," finding new uses for his curtains, and providing a forum for a friend of his to showcase his "artwork," are MOST welcome and treasured by the imagination.
Ames doesn't just write, he pulls you into his world and lets you come along for one wild ride after another. For those of us who wear a tie everyday to our humdrum jobs and only dream about TRUE adventure, Jonathan Ames is our ONLY hope!
I strongly suggest you buy this book. Simply put, spending a few bucks to buy your own copy is cheaper and infinitely safer than experiencing an Ames-like existence for yourself!! Thank you Mr. Ames for living your life so that the rest of us can experience it from the backseat.
Rating: 4
Summary: NAUSEATINGLY HUMOROUS
Comment: Not for the faint-of-heart or the weak-of-stomach, Ames' memoir swerves from hilarious to nauseating, touching on every scatological subject in-between. From enemas to impotence to prosthetic sexual organs to baldness, Ames waxes poetic on every conceivable body part and its function (or, more likely, its DISfunction). In the author's own words, "What's Not to Love?" is the kind of book one's mother shouldn't read. If not always humorous, Ames' stories are always pointedly and seat-squirmingly honest. If you are in an adventurous mood and are looking for something out-of-the ordinary, "What's Not to Love?" is the book for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: WOW
Comment: Hard to believe Ames could make some of these topics so comical. And he puts them forth in such a way that you're not sure if you're laughing AT him or WITH him. But you ARE laughing and that's the point. Good fun for those with a politically incorrect sense of humor. All others, beware!
Also recommended - NO ONE'S EVEN BLEEDING and DELANO
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Title: My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays by Jonathan Ames ISBN: 1560253754 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: I Pass Like Night (Contemporary Classics) by Jonathan Ames ISBN: 067103426X Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Extra Man by Jonathan Ames ISBN: 0671015583 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: How to Lose Friends & Alienate People by Toby Young ISBN: 0306812274 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami ISBN: 0375704027 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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