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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: 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.94
Rating: 5
Summary: Beat Me Until I Laugh
Comment: Jonathan Ames is a jewel! It will be interesting to see if the Letterman show actually lets him go on! Bleep bleep bleep. This book continues where "What's Not to Love" left off. Jonathan's Walter Middy style prose is both innocent and X-rated. Whether he's talking about nude wrestlers in The Herring Wonder, trying to get invited to his first orgy or taking his dad onto a porn set, he's able to take the unimaginable and make it hilarious. The whole chapter on penis enlargement is a hoot; and the S&M support group is hysterically funny. My only caution with this book is that if you read it publicly such as on the treadmill at the gym, you might find people looking at you with enquiring eyes when you start to howl! This is another gem from our American Oscar Wilde! Don't miss it!
Rating: 5
Summary: BEST DAMN BOOK OF THIS YEAR, MAYBE ANY YEAR
Comment: I couldn't put the book down and devoured every chapter, laughing out loud at Ames' humor which is always a result of his honest portrayal of the human experience. You feel like you know the guy, and that he knows you. He is always right on target with his honesty and clarity, and I keep wanting to read more. It [is terrible] when the book is finished, but you got to reread it again and again as there's more there with each rereading. I first discovered his essays in NY Press, and they are amazing, and perfect, and the best...book of this year, or any year. He's a modern Hemingway with a splash of Howard Stern. Or a...Hemingway.
Tony
Rating: 5
Summary: SLINGS AND EROS OF OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE
Comment: Your average reader may never find him/herself participating in a backyard animal sacrifice, attending a support group for S&M enthusiasts, or being brow-beaten by a Jamaican customs official. Self-described "comic-depressive" Jonathan Ames has endured all these adventures and many more and--luckily for us--has chronicled them with astonishing candor, wit and humility in his latest collection. Ames makes you empathize with every scenario, from the most seemingly mundane indignities to the most fantastic (or phantasmagoric). His brilliantly self-deprecating prose is laugh-out-loud funny--I found myself chuckling inappropriately in public as I read how he has been dubiously appointed the expert-in-residence on venereal afflictions to his friends--but extremely poignant, too. He often gives voice to the marginalized of society--prostitutes, transsexuals, porn stars and derelicts--but never in a condescending or exploitative way. I only wish I hadn't devoured it so quickly--next time I read it, and I most definitely will--I'll try to time-release my doses of hilarity. All in all, a highly addictive, moving and oddly reassuring book.
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Title: What's Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer by Jonathan Ames ISBN: 0375726497 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 07 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Extra Man by Jonathan Ames ISBN: 0671015583 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: I Pass Like Night by Jonathan Ames ISBN: 067103426X Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell, Katherine Streeter ISBN: 0743223527 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 05 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories by Jincy Willett ISBN: 0312306180 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 14 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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