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sternjon's review
5.0
Holy christ -- this is the funniest fucking thing I've ever read in my ife. Get it now -- I'm thinking of giving this out as my sole Christmas Present
jkenna90's review
4.0
This was a pretty good collection of stories. I liked most of them and they were pretty funny
carmenhartjensen's review
3.0
Lots of short thoughts in this book. Most are quite funny and a bit tongue in check. I am sure a few of them might offend some folks but overall I thought it was a good read.
lisahelene's review
4.0
Maybe only 3 1/2 stars but I'll definitely read this again. I know "Free Range Chickens" got funnier the more I read it. This is a book I'll pick up & read again when I'm feeling a little down.
kristennd's review
3.0
I was halfway through the book before I actually laughed out loud, but there were three more instances after that. Still a pretty low percentage, but I don't think it's quite my sense of humor. My boyfriend is more the target demographic and he laughed pretty much at everything. It became much more impressive when I read at the end that he wrote all this during his four years of undergrad (not only as a senior). That explains why almost everything is from a kid's perspective and how the few pieces in adult voice didn't ring quite true. Many gags are familiar and he doesn't put a new twist on them. But they're the first time for someone. The piece with the hockey players was the most ambitious and thus almost the most impressive (but definitely sad rather than funny, at least to me), but he made some assumptions that just couldn't hold up. The ones I actually laughed at were Medieval England, Stadium Proposal, Sultan of Brunei, and Life in the U.S. Army.
jessrock's review
3.0
I read a couple of excerpts from this collection of short humorous pieces and I thought they were hysterical, but I found the book a bit of a let-down. It made sense when I read the "about the author" and discovered that he was a Harvard senior when he wrote this - it really does feel like the output of a young and overly clever college student. The thing is, for all I felt disappointed while I was reading it, in the days after I kept thinking of stories from the book and laughing. So I think there are some real gems and truisms in this collection, but overall it's a bit weak and fluffy. For the amount of time it takes to read it, it's worth it for the bright spots, but I wanted to like it a lot more than I did.