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The book spares no one. Politicians, sports stars, celebrities, corporations, publishers, crossing guards––all fair game. If you are a scumbag or just somebody who they find annoying there is a fair chance you will be on the list.
Politics has long been a passion for Jackie Mason and he is well known for his tough and outspoken position on many issues. He is not one to sidestep an issue no matter how sticky. Together with his friend and collaborator, the well–known divorce attorney Raoul Lionel Felder, he has hosted a weekly PBS talk television series "Crossing The Line" and a BBC radio show "The Mason–Felder Report", and currently he has a weekly talk show on the Comcast Network.
Customer Reviews:
Cheap Awful Jokes and simply stupid.......2007-10-07
I guess I thought it would give me a laugh or two based on some of highlighted phases, "Jews for Jesus" etc. However, it was yet another comedian trying to join the Lewis Black, Daily Show or Bill Maher bandwagon of political humor. Too bad this comedian is not as funny nor has diverse content.
After the first few pages the book simply turns into a complaining/vent session of everything which the authors deeply disagrees with - let me summarize:
Any Jew who is against Israel
Any political organization against Israel politics
Any person who remotely supports the Holocaust
Any non-Conservative
and silly jokes to those in media which require teasing (ie. Al Sharpton, Michael Moore, Jesse Jackson, Britney, etc.)
There are many other comedian with similar content and jokes but they are really funny whereas this book just takes a small segment of its victim and highlights it as their basis for existence.
Save yourself money and time. If you want something funny watch a truly funny comedian. Allow Jackie to perform on Broadway and advise him to keep the stand-up act going but stay away from the typewriter.
Useful in only one regard.......2007-09-26
Perhaps I'm just getting too old... I can vaguely remember back in the early days of television when some of what Jackie Mason said was actually funny.
But the only way this book could been any worse would have been if Alan Derschowitz had done the editing and Ann Coulter's face had been on the cover. (Although, to be fair, Neither Mr. Mason nor Mr. Felder is very much less unappealing to behold than Ms. Coulter)
Still, this book did add something to my store of knowledge. Based upon the definitions given in the introduction, I can now state with some authority that:
1. Anyone who either buys a book written by a faded borscht belt comedian and a celebrity divorce lawyer for more than 39 cents on a remainders table OR takes seriously anything contained in said book - is a schmuck.
2. Anyone who actually writes such a book as this one AND puts his own name on it - is a putz.
okay read.......2007-08-24
It is an okay read, but I won't recommand buying it. Borrow it from the library or something.
The incessant whine of the privileged has never been so shrill.......2007-07-12
Imagine if you will that you are at a dinner. Your host is a rather amusing Republican; and he may have been a liberal in his youth, but that only makes his current political stance all that more forceful. He begins with a few light jokes, some witty repartee and then drags you into a longwinded and ultimately self-righteous sermon about everything that is wrong with America. Now imagine that he's Jewish or at least knows enough Yiddish to fake it. That's the essence of this book.
As with Goldberg's 39 People Screwing Up America, this is one of those books from the Republican Shriek Factory. Forget about Bush committing us to a fruitless war and practically legitimizing torture. Forget about the blank check that Bush got from a Republican Congress to keep this war going. Hell forget about Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, FEMA or Ken Lay from Enron. No, in this world, the worst human being is Al Gore (who is lying - so sayeth the ancient Jewish comedians without humor) and Al Sharpton. Oh and of course we can't have a book like this without slamming on Barbara Streisand.
Even Goldberg threw in a few personalities that we could all agree on - like Barbara Walters dumbing down the news.
But this book is just a combination of smug and defensive from beginning to end. And even better, it's new but it reads like an old NY Post article. These guys still think that Bill Clinton's sex scandal is more odious than Bush's war. Only no one died in that sex scandal and at this point I thought no one cared. ANd Bill Maher? Yep, he said that the 9/11 terrorists weren't cowardly. The factg that bravery and cowardice have really nothing to do with their actions is second nature. Nope, you have to call your enemies cowardly. The words "evil" or "vicious" are only accurate; so why bother with them?
This is a book that was old before its time. Had it been published in the early part of the decade when Bush could do no wrong and his willing cheerleaders sang his praises, it might have been a hit; especially among those who think that throwing in a Yiddish word or two is the height of comedy (ie. goyim). Now it's just sad.
Milding Amusing At Best.......2007-06-09
Lighthearted approach to some heavyweight topics. It's a very quick read about dozens of people, places, organizations, countries, governments that don't measure up to he way Mason and Felder's look at the world and the way it oughta' be. Mason does comedy standup about world events, so maybe he's qualified in his contributions to the written slam fest. -But who's this Raoul Felder? -A "celebrity divorce lawyer," reads the book jacket. One might ask: "What's his world-view expertise?"
In any event, the book's stacked with truly cutting opinions and soft-touch humor about personalities from Barbra Streisand, Barry Bonds, Bill Clinton, Ray Nagin, and even Pablo Picasso...to entities like the NCAA, Afghanistan, the French, and the New York Times. Plus criticisms about automatic toilets and sinks? True, this topic has not been overlooked. The casual funniness balances the biting lampooning in ways that only Mason can effect...without venom or hate. You can sort of tell which parts were Mason's and which were Felders.
Regularly, they parlay a compelling "Jewish" flavor to the work by including references to Jewish events or people or words. The authors often pepper in terms like feh, meshpucha, yenta, et. al. I don't exactly know the meaning of these words; but somehow, they worked for this reader. Ah, but, then, too, the title of the book is "Schmucks!" What should we expect? Is it light Jewish humor packaged for Gentiles. [The copyright for this book is by Krapatakin? Might there be some kind of hidden humor here only the writers would know about... (!?)]
Mason and Felder confront the notion that "...just because a person is absolutely first-class in one field does not mean [he/] she should be respected in another," the point of a couple of pages on Susan Sarandon. Maybe this says it all, as "Schmucks!" is all over the board, definitely overly-political [however lite] in its scope, and is only marginally amusing. It's Not at all "material that will leave you crying with laughter," as the dust cover promises; but it is interesting, with a lot of "yeah, I agree with that" reader reaction.
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Gone for Good
Harlan Coben
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"The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies." So says Will Klein, whose search for his missing and allegedly murderous brother, Ken, leaves him doubting the actions of everybody he's ever loved.
Eleven years ago, Ken fled his family's suburban New Jersey neighborhood after Will's ex-girlfriend, Julie Miller, was raped and strangled. The Kleins eventually convinced themselves that Ken perished on the lam. But as Will discovers, the facts are not so simple. On her deathbed, his mother tells him that Ken is still alive. Then Will's girlfriend and "soul mate" disappears too, only to have her fingerprints turn up at a New Mexico homicide scene. How are these tragedies connected? And what's their relationship to the recent appearance of a contract killer known as the Ghost? With help from an abused ex-hooker, a former white supremacist turned yoga guru, and Julie's younger sister, Will finds himself in a tightly twisted plot that turns on double identities and misplaced trust and that forces him to dig for the courage he was always sure he lacked.
Although the premise sounds much like that of Harlan Coben's last book, the acclaimed Tell No One, and the books' ingenuous protagonists are nearly interchangeable, Gone for Good quickly establishes its separate but equally suspenseful identity. This is a tale of manifold deceptions guaranteed to show its readers up as suckers, and to make them love every moment of the experience. --J. Kingston Pierce
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As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins’ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman—a girl Will had once loved—was found brutally murdered in her family’s basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good.
Now eleven years have passed. Will has found proof that Ken is alive. And this is just the first in a series of stunning revelations as Will is forced to confront startling truths about his brother, and even himself. As a violent mystery unwinds around him, Will knows he must press his search all the way to the end. Because the most powerful surprises are yet to come.
Customer Reviews:
Terrific.......2007-06-21
I like the Myron Bolitar series but as a writer, I know how the choices we make early on can come back to haunt us. The first few books were written in an almost comic style, with Big Cindi and Esperanza, and even Win deliberate stereotypes, put there to provide absurdist relief. In the last couple of books, the author has tried to depict these characters more realistically, but it's hard to make a caricature into a character.
Coben doesn't have this problem with Gone for Good. He's a better writer, a smarter writer than he used to be. Gone for Good crackles with menace and tension and the suspense barely lifts until the very last page. Maybe there's a bit too much melodrama, too many surprises, too many changes, but it all holds together. It all works.
Will Klein's brother has been framed for a murder he did not commit. Or was he? We don't really know, but we know do know that the bad guys are really bad, the good guys are not as good as they seem and our hapless hero gets crunched in the middle of the action.
Highly recommended.
Entertaining but Cumbersome, perhaps Farcical Plot.......2007-06-16
Coben knows how to write a suspenseful thriller. He proves that in Gone for Good. This book is a page turner, as are Coben's other books I have read; however Gone for Good consists of a plot that has too many complexities, coincidences and presumptions to swallow whole. Character attributes exist that readers just have to accept rather than question, and the characters are such that I can't imagine their actual existence and behavior as presented by Coben. This book has many twists and turns as any novel of this length. It keeps you guessing until the very end, so it is a worthwhile read, just not as satisfying as I would have hoped. It also maneuvers through some of the worst kind of characters and behavior our culture/society has to offer...not the kind of stuff that is uplifting, except for an awkward sort of suprise "good guy" behavior by a otherwise bad character later in the book.
Good Read!.......2007-06-12
400 pages flew by... Good read and enjoyed being pulled into Coben's latest!
My Two Cents.......2007-05-20
This is my first Coben read. Good solid writing, great images and simile, great characters too. Keeps you guessing. I'm glad to add Coben to my collection of authors, I'll read more of his books.
A Good Ride and A Great Ending.......2007-05-03
Lots of twists and turns with an ending you really don't see coming.
This is a rather convoluted tale...
Will's brother Ken has been on the run for over eleven years now, he is wanted for the murder of Julie Miller, Will's ex-girlfriend. Will's current true love, Sheila, suddenly disappears from his life with no explanation. Will is trying to unravel all of the deception and figure out whether or not his brother is really innocent like Will has believed all these years. While at the same time trying to figure out just who was the woman he thought he loved.
The story is complete with sorority sisters, a mob boss, an overzealous FBI agent, a quadriplegic pimp, a former skin-head and by my count at least two sociopaths.
I liked these characters, the dialog was believable, the details realistic. It was a quick and enjoyable read with lots of clever twists and turns and an ending that really surprised me.
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- Mason's Pointy Wit
- Oy vey, a world full of meshugeh shmucks!
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Schmucks! CD: Our Favorite Fakes, Frauds, Lowlifes, Liars, the Armed and Dangerous, and Good Guys Gone Bad
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Jackie Mason, one of the true kings of comedy, and his partner in crime, former federal prosecutor and celebrity attorney, Raoul Felder, go after America's lowlifes, scumbags, and everyone else who really gets on their nerves.
Schmucks! combines Mason's and Felder's nails-to-the-wall political satire—impeccable timing with insightful observations on the foibles of modern life to create material that will leave you crying with laughter.
Just a few of the Schmucks included are:
- Bill Clinton
- Mel Gibson
- Barbra Streisand
- Katie Couric
- Barry Bonds
- And a cast of hundreds
Customer Reviews:
Mason's Pointy Wit.......2007-05-03
When a news maker makes themself a special spot on page six daily by their actions...They are SCHMUCKS!
Jackie Mason, humorist, Comedian and winner for his one man Broadway show "The World According to Me", takes on this challenge of pointing out the "Schmucks" of the world in this abridged CD.
In someways, this seem like an updating of some of "World". He takes on such Schmucks like Bill & Hillary Clinton, Jews for Jesus, Madonna and France with his pointed humor. His wit is razor sharp and so are some of the points he takes on.
Does he make sense? More than you will know. This is more than comedy, it is a lesson in why people do stupid things. His viewpoints make for good listening
Jackie, all I hope is I am not on next year's list!
Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD
Oy vey, a world full of meshugeh shmucks!.......2007-04-04
Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder combine comedy and common sense and mix it with a whole lotta chutzpeh to stick it to shmuck after filfthy schmuck. You can practically hear Mason's voice speaking from the pages, laying insult upon insult in joyous irreverance for the self-appointed schmucks in the world. Doesn't matter if you're dead or alive, if you're a shmuck, you can't even hide in the dirt. Rich schmucks, dead schmucks, globo-schmucks and even dumb shmucks from Yasser Arafat to Katie Couric get lambasted. From now on, whenever Al Sharpton's face pops up on your TV screen, you'll be shouting "praise the lard". At the end you'll wonder, "If these guys are all schmucks, what in the world does it take to become a putz?"
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“People always say I’m going to look back on these days and laugh — why put it off?”
When Angela Nissel found herself struggling financially while in college, instead of sulking, she decided to entertain herself by creating an online journal that chronicled her day-to-day trials and tribulations. Written with humor and intelligence, her “Broke Diary” quickly found an audience as people wrote to Angela to empathize with, console, and laugh with her about her experiences and even share their own.
The Broke Diaries is the first complete compilation of her experiences, written in a voice that is funny, unique, and dead-on.
On buying ramen noodles: I am sooooooo embarassed. I only have 33 cents. I (please don’t laugh) put the money on the counter and quickly attempt to dash out with my Chicken Flavored Salt Noodles. The guy calls me back! I look up instinctively, I should have run . . . Why didn’t I run???!! He tells me the noodles are 35 cents. I try to apologize sincerely. I thought the sign said 33 cents yesterday, so that’s all I brought with me. Could he wait while I ran home and get the 2 cents? I show him my student I.D. to let him know I am not a thief. He shakes his head and motions either for me to get the hell out of his store and
never come back again or get the money as
do come back. I don’t know. He said something like “Nyeh” and swiped his hand in my direction.
I can’t translate hand motions well.
The noodles: tasty!!!
Customer Reviews:
A hearty laugh.......2007-06-02
I read this novel quite some time ago and I must say that I was pleased! Angela Nissell is a broke college student just trying to survive. She keeps a journal of her everyday events and we are able to travel with her and go through her happiness and pain with her. I would recommend this book to anyone!
Reading in Public Draws Attention.......2007-03-01
There are times when people can let out polite laughter and nobody knows. NOT WITH THIS BOOK! REVOLUTION! I'm laughing while I type this review and laughed everywhere else (on the train, at my desk at work, at home). This book was hilarious. I love Nissel's dry wit. Some people just have a knack for being funny, and she's got it down to a science. I could relate to her on so many different levels about having broke days. Actually, after some of the crazy stories she told (from rent being overdue, to lack of food, to milking the bartender for free drinks, etc.), she made me feel rich. My favorite parts of the book was when she talked about her male friends (you could've given Corduroy another chance!), especially Peanut and TurdBoy. Absolutely classic. The only cons I could think of was the story about the chicken guy (I'm a vegetarian and sensitive to animals) and the stuttering poet (that's just mean to make fun of him...mean!) Other than that, great book!
I love this book........2007-02-15
Angela Nissel is hilarious...being a college student myself, I know how it is to be broke...not as much as Nissel though lol. The situations she got herself into will make you crack up...wonderful, fun book. Definitely recommend!
Funny Book.......2007-01-26
This book was pretty hilarious. It was great to read about her adventures as a completely broke college student. I really liked this book!
Laughing Out Loud!.......2006-12-13
I have had boyfriends tell me that they weren't sure about our compatibility because I don't laugh enough....I'm always so serious....Not anymore! Current boyfriend says he has never seen me laugh out loud so much as when I have been reading Angela Nissel's books. Not only does she keep it real, she is Chris Rock funny! Do not read this book in public unless you don't mind being embarassed. I don't want to say more and ruin the reading experience, but to avoid the hazards of reading this book, find a a quiet solitary place preferably near a restroom and don't drink too much while reading...
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They may be small, round and sweet, but the mugs on these pugs can't always be believed. Hidden beneath the big eyes and innocent-looking faces often lurks a pug who has waddled to the wrong side of the tracks. Petty theft, bribery, fraud, vandalism, even lewd and lascivious behavior are well documented in the mug shots of these pugs caught in the act of their pernicious crimes. Humorous? Yes. Funny? Not if you believe that pugs should be a little more decorous than this unruly bunch.
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I am still laughing!.......2007-07-25
Wackiest pug book EVER! I have two pugs and I love to cuddle with them and read this book to them. I have never seen such risks taken in pug photography! Bravo!
Pugs Amok.......2007-05-01
One must be wary of an animal that owns the owner. So cute that misbehaving goes excused. This book may give us a glimpse of pugs gone amok, bad wiring.
On a lighter side this book makes a great gift and can brighten anyones day!
Truly Funny!.......2007-02-09
This is one of the very best Pug books I have seen or owned, and I have quite a few (Pug ownership is a kind of cult, I think). The "crimes" in the book are true to the breed and the pictures are excellent, but the best part is the hilarious descriptions of purely Pug behavior.
Hilarious Book.......2007-01-22
For all pug lovers (and dog lovers) out there, you will love this book. It is hilarious, and totally captures the personalities of the pugs in the book, and pugs in general, completely. My husband, nephew, niece and I loved this book, and could not stop laughing at the hilarious little stories and pictures.
love those critters.......2007-01-12
this little book was delightful, definitely what i had hoped for. the illustrations for each short story were amusing and creative, while the anecdotes were original and imaginative and full of humor. it was the perfect gift for a relative who dotes on his pug.
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IN HER SIZZLING DEBUT, KARIN TABKE SETS THE SCENE WITH HARD-HITTING COPS, A SCANDALOUS CRIME, AND UNINHIBITED PASSION THAT CAN'T BE DENIED....
Straight-laced, by-the-book police officer Philamina Zorn has always lived by the letter of the law -- that is, until she is assigned to work with Lieutenant Ty Jamerson, a tough-as-nails, arrogantly handsome cop who knows exactly how to press her buttons. Staking out Klub Kashmir, the Bay Area's hottest gentleman's club, Phil and Ty go undercover to bait the kidnapper of three young women -- including two strippers from the club -- while trying to keep their clashing personalities at bay. Baring more than just her inhibitions, Phil dons a barely there ensemble, straps on stilettos, and reveals her feisty side as Kat, a seductively sexy cocktail waitress who lets her luscious curves do the talking. Not only is she determined to expose a criminal but she has vowed to show her hot-headed lieutenant, a.k.a. floor manager of Klub Kashmir, that she's no shrinking violet.
As Phil and Ty become more deeply entrenched in the sordid underground world of exotic dancing, where money means everything and passions run wild, flaring tension becomes uncontrollable lust. It's all they can do not to surrender to desire -- a hunger that intensifies with each playful encounter. Meanwhile, a cold-blooded criminal is hiding in the shadows -- and a devastating secret that, if revealed, could shake Phil to her core.
Customer Reviews:
Ok Read.......2007-07-07
The book was ok. What I did not like about the book was how Phil kept trying to prove herself by stripping and doing things she wouldnt if it hadnt been for ty pushing her and underestimating her. Second, Ty was to stubborn to realize his feelings for her. And the romance is slow, it does not catch up until the last several chapters.
Phil was not a desperate heroine though. Ty was just so stubborn being a hard behind.
I would recommend it, buy it used or rent from the library. I am reading Skin now and it is much more developed in characters, setting and plot. Not to say the book is not developed, it just need better understanding and development.
My best read for 2007 so far!.......2007-06-08
I find it hard to believe this is Ms Tabke's first published novel-length story. It's sophisticated, riveting and oh-so-erotic though it's a romance, not erotica. I've waited so long for a contemporary erotic suspense such as this - ie, no vampires, werewolves, psychics or aliens. Just plain, pure contemporary romantic suspense.
What makes Good Girl Gone Bad different from the usual romantic suspense fare is that it has a satisfying dose of scorching hot sex scenes - something the mainstream romantic suspense lack - yet it's so well-balanced and fits into the plot. Being a guzzler of erotic romances these days, I am, however, not a paranormal fan and most of the erotic romances that have suspense and action are paranormals. When I chanced on Good Girl Gone Bad, I took the leap and bought the tradeback (too expensive to be my regular purchase format) and I am just blown away by this book!
As soon as I finished reading the excerpt to Karin's next book, Skin, I had to place an order but, thankfully, checked my TBR pile and to my delight, there it was in the pile! Now I can't wait to start on Reece's story and if you read GGGB, you'll be buying Skin, too!
The romance between Tyler and Phil is believable and I found myself aching to see Tyler finally give in enough to let their romance develop instead of insisting it was only sex. While GGGB gave me my pre-requisite HEA, it's not your typical romance HEA. It's a HFN - Happy For Now. While I did miss my formulaic romance HEA, it is a happy end to a wonderful story and there is absolutely no doubt in the reader's mind that Tyler is deeply in love with Phil.
Still, I'm hoping that the second book, Skin, which features Tyler's yummy colleague, Reece, will have Tyler and Phil making appearances and I might even have Tyler finally saying those Three Little Words to Phil that he refuses to say to her in GGGB.
Great Mix.......2007-04-09
This was one of the best books I have read. I am a grad student that reads alot, so I am usually not too excited about reading anything I don't have to, but I could not put this book down. My husband had to literally hide it from me so that I would do my school work. It had a great storyline with twists and turns and some very passionate sex.
Awesome Book.......2007-01-09
I loved this book. I would totally recommend it to anyone who wants a little romance, a little spice and a great story polt all wrapped up into one. Totally go out and read this book today you won't regret it!!!!!!
Good Girls Gone Bad.......2007-01-06
Six months on the street as a beat cop was all the experience that Philamina Zorne had on the force before she transferred into Internal investigations. It was as long as she was willing to wait to get access to her father's sealed file. He was a good man, harsh, yes, but good down to his very soul. There was no way that Phil could accept that he had another life on the street, complete with a beat wife. Phil knew that he couldn't betray both her and her mother that way.
Walking into the interrogation room, Phil finally met the undercover cop that she'd heard so much about. Sergeant Ty Jamerson, rogue cop...or a cop that'll do anything to bring in the bad guy? It didn't matter, the facts add up to the conclusion that once again he's used unnecessary force. This time with Phil as lead investigator, she'll see that he hangs for it.
Three years later, Phil has been kicked out of IA because she did her job too well and she's been assigned to undercover. Her commanding officer on the case...none other than Ty Jamerson. He walked away from the charges that were laid against him without so much as a black mark on his record, one of the few that ever did when Phil was assigned to their case. The attraction she felt for him the first time she met him was still there, but he was a bad cop, and Philamina Zorne wouldn't let that distract her. They had three kidnapped women to find, the last victim, one of their own.
The uptight and righteous Phil Zorne got to him three years ago; she was tough, gorgeous and had a body to die for...and Ty couldn't forget her. He didn't want her on his task force, she was former IA, probably still was, and he didn't want her reporting everything he did to the Captain. He was willing to do anything he had to, to get the bad guy, even if he had to step over the line of the law to do it. But damn, he still wanted her, bad.
Good Girl Gone Bad by Karin Tabke is filled with danger, mystery and an attraction between Phil and Ty...hot enough to melt the pages. Phil was a good girl that had an awful experience with her first taste of sex and it still affects her years later. Ty is sex personified and is bound, bent and determined to get a taste of the woman that got under his skin the first time he met her, and then walk away when he's had his fill. Both Phil and Ty are working towards the same goal, find and rescue the female rookie cop that was kidnapped and bring down what they expect is a white slavery ring that is responsible. The attraction between Phil and Ty is so hot, it's almost a living entity on its own; with Phil determined to ignore it, and Ty determined to get her between the sheets, it's a fight that seems doomed from the beginning. Will either get what they want, or will both get burned?
I would have preferred to have seen more of the investigation going on in Good Girl Gone Bad, but as this is a romance and the main concentration is the forming relationship between Phil and Ty, it was still done well. Ms. Tabake did a wonderful job in Phil's transformation to Kat, and I loved to watch her finally get in touch with her sensual side, both on the club floor and on the stage. Ty's growth from a man that refuses to have any emotional entanglements whatsoever, to Phil bringing those emotions to the fore is easily believable and it was a wonder to see. Good Girl Gone Bad is a good story that brought me into the bad world of undercover police work and left me completely satisfied.
Lyonene
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Schmucks! LP: Our Favorite Fakes, Frauds, Lowlifes, Liars, the Armed and Dangerous, and Good Guys Gone Bad
Jackie Mason , and
Raoul Felder
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ASIN: 006114598X
Release Date: 2007-03-27 |
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Jackie Mason, one of the true kings of comedy, and his partner in crime, former federal prosecutor and celebrity attorney Raoul Felder, go after America's lowlifes, scumbags, and everyone else who really gets on their nerves.
This book spares no one. Politicians, sports stars, celebrities, corporations, publishers, crossing guards—they're all fair game. If you are a Schmuck, or just someone who Jackie and Raoul find annoying, there is a fair chance you are on the list.
Schmucks! combines Mason's and Felder's nails-to-the-wall political satire—impeccable timing with insightful observations on the foibles of modern life—to create material that will leave you crying with laughter.
Just a few of the Schmucks included:
- Bill Clinton
- Mel Gibson
- Barbra Streisand
- Katie Couric
- Barry Bonds
- And a cast of hundreds
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MASON at his best!.......2007-03-31
I love Jackie Mason and his unique humor! My only regret is that I couldn't hear his voice - "so, vat I am telling tellink you awready, "You showd buy it, und I am promisink you: You vill love it! If not - nu, you're a schmuck too....."
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At twenty-three, Wendy Shalit punctured conventional wisdom with A Return to Modesty, arguing that our hope for true lasting love is not a problem to be fixed but rather a wonderful instinct that forms the basis for civilization. Now, in Girls Gone Mild, the brilliantly outspoken author investigates an emerging new movement. Despite nearly-naked teen models posing seductively to sell us practically everything, and the proliferation of homemade sex tapes as star-making vehicles, a youth-led rebellion is already changing course.
In Seattle and Pittsburgh, teenage girls protest against companies that sell sleazy clothing. Online, a nineteen-year-old describes her struggles with her mother, who she feels is pressuring her to lose her virginity. In a small town outside Philadelphia, an eleventh-grade girl, upset over a “dirty book” read aloud in English class, takes her case to the school board.
These are not your mother’s rebels.
In an age where pornography is mainstream, teen clothing seems stripper-patented, and “experts” recommend that we learn to be emotionally detached about sex, a key (and callously) targeted audience–girls–is fed up.
Drawing on numerous studies and interviews, Shalit makes the case that today’s virulent “bad girl” mindset most truly oppresses young women. Nowadays, as even the youngest teenage girls feel the pressure to become cold sex sirens, put their bodies on public display, and suppress their feelings in order to feel accepted and (temporarily) loved, many young women are realizing that “friends with benefits” are often anything but. And as these girls speak for themselves, we see that what is expected of them turns out to be very different from what is in their own hearts.
Shalit reveals how the media, one’s peers, and even parents can undermine girls’ quests for their authentic selves, details the problems of sex without intimacy, and explains what it means to break from the herd mentality and choose integrity over popularity. Written with sincerity and upbeat humor, Girls Gone Mild rescues the good girl from the realm of mythology and old manners guides to show that today’s version is the real rebel: She is not “people pleasing” or repressed; she is simply reclaiming her individuality. These empowering stories are sure to be an inspiration to teenagers and parents alike.
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“Here we are, decades after the feminist revolution, and yet crude self-display -- of a kind that makes the daring of the 1960s seem quaint -- is considered something that a "normal" college girl might eagerly choose to do for a stranger with a camera and a release form. What is going on? "We continually malign the good girl as 'repressed,'" notes Wendy Shalit, "while the bad girl is (wrongly) perceived as intrinsically expressing her individuality and somehow proving her sexuality."
Wall Street Journal, reviewed by Pia Catton
“What makes the [Girls Gone Mild] movement unique, according to Shalit, is that it's the adults who are often pushing sexual boundaries, and the kids who are slamming on the brakes. "Well-meaning experts and parents say that they understand kids' wanting to be 'bad' instead of 'good'," she writes in her book. "Yet this reversal of adults' expectations is often experienced not as a gift of freedom but a new kind of oppression." Which just may prove that rebelling against Mom and Dad is one trend that will never go out of style.”
Newsweek, reviewed by Jennie Yabroff
“The culture has not yet carved out a space for women to indulge their own fantasies rather than to fulfill those of men. Feminism has not finished its job; a version of nonmushy, nonmarital sex that makes women feel good about themselves is still hard to achieve. Yet as a feminist, it's hard for me to concede these things to Shalit. . . .”
The Nation, reviewed by Nona Willis-Aronowitz
"What is the point of casual sex if the sex part isn't any good?" Ms. Shalit asks, quoting former sex columnist Amy Sohn. It's a question many girls are asking. On one sex-ed site, the number one topic for girls is how to refuse a boyfriend's request for sex without losing the boyfriend. ...”
Washington Times, reviewed by Cheryl Miller
“I have little doubt that Girls Gone Mild will make at least as many people as mad as did its predecessor. The puzzling thing about this anger is that Shalit sounds nothing like the baby Savonarola of her critics’ nightmares. Not only is her style even-tempered, sweetly reasonable, and full of pleasing glints of dry wit, but she is no zealot, at least not in the usual sense of the word. ...Girls Gone Mild is not a Roger Kimball-style tour d’horizon of the approaching apocalypse. ...[it is] an intelligent, illuminating, and unexpectedly optimistic book about those young women who have chosen to opt out of the revolution.”
Contentions, reviewed by Terry Teachout
“Girls Gone Mild throws into detailed, sickening relief the actual content the average girl in North America is subjected to from birth onwards in the determination to make her "bad." . . A solid researcher, citing wide-ranging statistical, professional and anecdotal testimony, Shalit builds a persuasive case for promiscuity's harsher toll on women than men.”
The National Post, reviewed by Barbara Kay
“Shalit marshals her evidence with the diligence of a trial lawyer. . . .[she] makes it clear that for girls, the young world is not a safe harbour, but a Darwinian thrash hunt wherein their degradation is the prize. Shalit does not preach; she merely reports on the pockets of girls who are taking back their innocence and insisting it is not naiveté."
The Globe and Mail, reviewed by Elizabeth Nickson
Customer Reviews:
Granddaughter's 13th B'day gift.......2007-09-25
After her mother and I checked the book out and it passed scrutiny, I gave my granddaughter her hard-bound copy. She was delighted with it and read it non-stop over a three day period.
I think it was a timely item of high quality and a valuable aid for those of us who have young, budding, female friends and relatives.
A 'good book'!
Is love really necessary?.......2007-09-16
Does anybody out there remember when Erica Jong, famous feminist and author, came out with the idea of "ziperless sex"? A sex so easy, so natural, that clothes just fly off? With the new, improved, version of females there would be none of that nonsense about inhibition and modesty. Just plenty of raw, raunchy sex.
All that was long ago. Today, Erica Jong's daughter, as Shalit reports
in "Girls Gone Mild", says "When you're twelve, there's nothing funny about your mother's fourth wedding" (p 104).
No kidding. And there's nothing funny about the results in our culture, with Bratz dolls dressed in fishnet stockings and micromini skirts sold to three-year-olds (p 1). Nothing all that funny about not being able to trust other women not to try and sleep with your husband. Or teenage boys urging girls to make out with each other while the boys watch, even though "none of the high school or college women actually enjoyed making out with other women" (p 175).
How can a love develop in today's culture? How can most women find love and marriage in this sex saturated culture? And without a loving marriage how can our children develop safely into good adults? All that's left is bars, drinking too much, hooking up, and herpes.
This makes the Victorian era, warts and all, look like paradise.
Review: Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good. By Wendy Shalit.......2007-08-26
For American society and culture to be good it must be built on truth. Now there is such a thing as objective truth, for if not, then it was only a difference of opinion that American society had with the National Socialists over whether or not Jews were human beings: "Hitler had his truth, and we had ours," so to speak. The untenability of cultural relativism should be self-evident, to borrow from Thomas Jefferson. Thus it was with a sense of joy and relief that I came across Wendy Shalit's Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good. Refreshingly, Shalit advocates returning to a single high standard for women and for men; Girls Gone Mild issues a well-documented challenge to contemporary America to take a hard look at the negative effects of a culturally relativist approach to male and female sexuality. She has penned a masterpiece which will no doubt go far in beginning a restoration of a genuine understanding of the truth about sex and the nature of women and men. Girls Gone Mild is on the mark and required reading in an increasingly hedonistic, commercial culture which encourages the exploitation of sexuality (specifically, for females, the disassociating of sex from emotion) to the point of corrupting young girls into allowing their bodies to be used for profit. Shalit also documents how this permissiveness in turn aggravates tendencies toward aggressive male behavior, which does not help in the quest for societal valuing of a girl's feminine dignity!
For women, the truth which emerges from her book is the moral (i.e., human) absolute to value in thought, word and deed the inherent dignity of all women, as stated by one of the girls "gone mild" Shalit spoke with: [For Robin] "....pushing sexualized clothing on younger and younger girls is part of a society that does not value women" to the extent it values the efficiency and productivity of men; "So for Robin, refusing to wear sexy clothing means refusing to be defined in external terms" (p. 150). We can learn much from the young ladies interviewed in the book, such as the following: "With the trashy stuff, you're wanting to show everybody how good your body is, instead of how you are on the inside. I think it's much better to dress modest so you don't distract other people." Distraction here refers to distraction "from their personalities" (pp. 153, 158). One gent from Britain, quoted in the epigraph to chapter 6, was not so distracted:
[As I] walk[ed] around a crowded city shopping area on a hot day last week, it often felt as though glancing anywhere below head-level in any direction was fraught--yet not doing so could clearly result in a twisted ankle. However, amid the plunging necklines and beltlines, piercings and tattoos, one woman stood out. She was wearing a long white summer dress with a red pattern on it, and she stood out because it made her look . . . pretty! Remember pretty? Ah, yes--I'd almost forgotten it, lost among all the hot, hip, raunchy grrrl-wear that has become the unofficial uniform de nos jours.
My experience as an educator exclusively of young women for over three decades has taught me that femininity includes the subtlety, the wisdom, the sensitivity, the gentle healing power of women. It is their strength, so much stronger than sad attempts to imitate men, which often degenerates into absorbing the worst male weaknesses and imperfections, as evidenced in Shalit's account. The good news is that young women are beginning to catch on, as shown in the author's discussion of the Edith Stein Project at Notre Dame. The Project's mission is to "explore a `new feminism' that would stress the dignity of women and `the unique role of women in society,' and to "raise awareness and combat the pressures in society that can negatively impact women as they search for acceptance and fulfillment" (p. 74). As a teacher in an all-girl high school in a major metropolitan area and an eyewitness to the various harmful fruits of the culturally-imposed "sexual revolution" on students down the years, I can attest to the oppression resulting from understanding the body ("the flesh") as what constitutes a person. And Shalit is right too in pointing out that these excesses have devalued both sexes. For girls, these are, for starters, low self-confidence, eating disorders, self-mutilation (from the "pain in being born female," (pp. 163, 270), promiscuous sex in hopes of feeling "loved" and the resulting hurt accompanying rejection by selfish males who use them, the abortions they are often forced to have as "backup contraception", which often leads to depression and in some cases, suicidal thoughts. For boys, Shalit posits ample enough evidence of what is all too dangerous: the objectification of the female, auto-eroticism which, when coupled with fantasaical addiction to pornography greatly imperils mature, healthy young men capable of offering what women really want in a man. Girls Gone Mild is full of expressions of the female sentiment that it is really difficult to get a guy to "fall in love with you." I suggest that we start with the aforementioned male behaviors when looking to discover why this is so. Young men are confused as to the purpose of sex, which is frequently recognized by "mild girls" in the book, as an expression of real (vs. "free") love, as being "about service to others," (p. 70) and "a desire to give; to create a bond and a unit that is more than the sum of its parts" (p. 179). Shalit recounts the experience of a former "player" who has stumbled upon this truth:
Now I only look for a modest woman, but they are nowhere to be found and it only seems to be getting worse. I have gone out on three dates since moving here. Two were good and we really hit it off, but on the second date one girl asked me if we were going to have sex or not. 1 took her to her home, as I lost all attraction for her, and never called her again. The other date was the same thing. So for the past two years I have been bored with all the women whom I have met. It's all the same; they seem more sex-crazed than the men I know and it's rather boorish. . . . I hate that sex is somehow used as a form of validation these days. . . . Don't get me wrong, I like sex. (I am a man, after all!) But knowing that there is a challenge present does two things for me: It makes me feel like the person I am pursuing is worthwhile and has self-respect, and it makes me feel like a man should feel, like he has enough skill and compassion and gentleness to actually attract her. (p. 216).
Upon reflection, after reading Girls Gone Mild it seems we are living in a culture which can be described as a collection of independent humans running around, at times colliding, running in and out of "relationships", getting and consuming whatever they want, when they want it. The guiding principle appears to be protection of the individual's right to his or her total freedom at all costs. Everything is tolerated, so long as it does not interfere with the rights of the individual and dominating concepts such as "privacy", "choice" and "self-realization". But vice, personal tragedies, intense human suffering and much loneliness and unhappiness are the consequences of this attempt to build society on a false understanding of the human person. The social disaster which is developing is largely the fruit of this secularist ideology, examples of which abound in Girls Gone Mild. In the face of this reality, 15-year old Taylor Moore's advice is sagacious: "So all you can do is make sure you stay true to who you are [as a female human being], and then everything will work out in the divine order." (p. 55) Attempts to subvert or deny the distinct nature and role of women leads to both personal disintegration and ultimately to the disintegration of society. Over the years women have taught me that the differences between men and women are natural, not the result of oppressive, sexist, patriarchal, gender socialization. A truly good society is one which safeguards the right of women to be women, against the lie that women can be human only when they imitate men in all things, and against the lie that women must exercise influence in the same way as men do, or they will have no influence at all. There is much, much more wisdom in this wonderful, thoroughly-researched and entertainingly written work which taught me much and opened my eyes even wider; I have linked it and Shalit's blog to my webpage and am recommending Girls Gone Mild to all my students and theirs parents. I close with what deeply touched me, and goes to the heart of the book's basic meaning for me: the author's dedication of the book: "For my husband, who makes being good seem so easy." I'm betting he feels the same about his wife.
Good but not as good as I thought it would be........2007-07-30
I reccomend this book but her first was better. This one looks at a lot of issues in modern culture and how they affect young women. Overall it's good. However I was very disappointed by her negative and unfounded opinion against the Dixie Chicks who in my opinion are doing just what she encourages: standing up for what they beleive in!
A Timely Challenge.......2007-07-27
In 2000, when she was only twenty-three, Wendy Shalit published A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue, a book in which she argued that the sexual revolution may not have been entirely beneficial for women. She decried the lack of modesty this revolution has brought about and, according to TIME defended "compellingly, shame, privacy, gallantry, and sexual reticence." Of course many people, and feminists in particular, were disgusted with the book and ruthlessly mocked her.
In her second book, Girls Gone Mild, she writes about a new trend she has discovered in speaking to thousands of girls and young women in the aftermath of the publication of A Return to Modesty. She draws upon over 100 in-depth interviews and thousands of email exchanges with women from ages twelve to twenty eight, representing diverse racial, religious and economic backgrounds. Some identify as Christians or Jewish, liberals or conservatives, feminists or not. The one thread tying all of these together is a desperation to find new and better role models. Shalit says the book is "about my search for an alternative to our Girls Gone Wild culture. It's about finding a way to acknowledge sexuality without having to share it with strangers. It's about rediscovering our capacity for innocence, for wonder, and for being touched profoundly by others."
Shalit opens by discussing Bratz, those Barbie-like dolls that look "hotter than hot," appearing overtly sexual in slinky clothes. Marketed to pre-teen girls, these dolls encourage even the youngest girls to see themselves as sexual creatures who can use their sexuality to attract others. In a Bratz book even the youngest girls are asked to fill in the blanks: "When I want to look hot for an extra special occasion I'll put on _________." "These days, the way dolls are dressed," Shalit says, comparing Bratz to a beloved Cabbage Patch Doll from her youth, "the question is not so much 'Is my dolly real?' as 'How much does she charge per hour?'" From Bratz and the countless similar products, whether sexy dolls or t-shirts sold to infants emblazoned with sexy slogans or thong underwear for six year olds, we see that being a child is no longer a valid excuse not to be sexualized. And further to this, being publicly sexual has become the most, and possibly the only, acceptable way for girls to express maturity. Thankfully a rebellion is underway, and one that may even represent the dawning of a fourth wave of the feminist movement. This rebellion, girls and young women rising against the sultry status quo, is a reaction to the over-sexualization of nearly everything. The rebellion is the theme of the book. It shares equally the despair of the status quo and the hope for a better future.
Our culture has some things backward. Where it was once the "bad girl" who stood out from the crowd and who was known for her reputation, today the bad girl is the new normal, the new expectation. The "good girls," on the other hand, the ones who refuse to engage in sexual behavior and the ones who refuse to flaunt their bodies, are the ones who face rejection from their peers and, tragically, even from adults. Young people need to be and to act bad just to fit in. And this is exactly what they do. "Consider how girls today need to be thin, available, and always sexy. At the same time they are supposed to have no hopes, no messy feelings, no vulnerability. They must be aggressive, yet somehow inviting. It's complicated, and to rebel against the new bad-girl script takes enormous confidence." But it can be done. Unfortunately it needs to be done with few role models to serve as guides or mentors. Where a group of girls is rising and extolling the benefits of chastity and more traditionally feminine behavior, it is adults who are criticizing this movement and attempting to keep it from gaining ground. Many young people are tiring of the game and are tired of experiencing the consequences of bad girl behavior, but adults continue to push them into it.
Shalit thinks this movement towards chastity, towards feminine virtue, would be far greater and far more powerful were it not for the repression girls experience because of the new normal. Many women stifle their desires for more chaste lifestyles simply because society teaches that casual sex is good and wonderful and healthy. Further, society teaches that it is the weak who delay sex while the strong, those who are uncomfortable with their sexuality, are the ones who hold out. Similarly, the ones who are comfortable with their bodies are glad to exhibit their nakedness in public while only those who are ashamed of their bodies keep them covered.
The book has many stories of hope. The author writes, for example, about "Pure Fashion Divas," girls who hold fashion shows exhibiting clothing that is trendy but not exhibitionist. The way people dress, after all, makes a powerful statement. "Dress can turn a young woman, unwittingly, into walking entertainment for men, or it can do the opposite, and cause people to focus on her internal qualities." A statement that seems shocking only for how old-fashioned it sounds today. Shalit is correct when she shows that today's bad girl is really just a girl who is prone to please others. An overwhelming desire to conform to other people's expectations leads them to surrender their dignity and their sexuality. The costs are high. I was intrigued by a chapter called "Excuse Me, Ma'am, Have You Seen My Friends?" Here Shalit argues that women are fast losing their ability to maintain strong, meaningful friendships. Women today enjoy fewer same-sex friendships because adultery and competition for men is now normal. Women no longer trust other women; they no longer understand what it is to be happy for someone else and to rejoice with those who rejoice. Their relationships are strangled by a sexualized, competitive spirit. Ironically, the liberated woman is increasingly a woman who is alone. The consequences of the new bad girl behavior eventually isolate women from even each other.
I think I can be excused for often thinking, while reading this book, "Isn't this what the Bible has been saying all along?" Shalit is Jewish and conservative in her belief and practice of her faith. And, in fact, faith is a theme throughout the book as Shalit often turns to the Old Testament or to Jewish tradition to show how Scripture provides wisdom that is applicable to this topic. Many of the examples of young women who fight the status quo are Christian girls, fed up with the sexually-charged atmosphere around them. The Bible has been telling us all along that God has created men to be men and women to be women. Men and women are equal in value and worth but separate in function. The feminist movement has been pushing women, exhorting them to become more like men. But this book shows, as have many Christian authors in recent years, that true liberation comes not from pushing aside feminine distinctives but by rediscovering, embracing and celebrating them. What makes this book distinctive, at least among the similar titles I've read, is that it comes from outside the Christian publishing industry. It ties in nicely with titles like Unhooked, Female Chauvinist Pigs and others. It has already been widely reviewed and is sure to generate a great deal of discussion. If Shalit's first book is any indication, it will generate anger, bitterness and outrage. Yet hopefully it will also give young women at least a few role models--pure fashion divas, girls who refuse to give it all away, and perhaps the author herself--who can be role models to a new generation of girls gone mild.
Somewhat ironically, I wrote this review while spending time with my family at the beach. If we are in the midst of a trend towards modesty, I don't think there is much evidence of it here. My wife and I conferred and agreed that swimwear does not seem to be showing much in the way of modesty. Yet I do believe that Shalit's thesis is right. Girls are increasingly fed up with the way they've been told to act. They are the ones who bear the consequences for their behavior and they are the ones who are beginning to agree that enough is enough. As the father of two girls I hope and pray that this movement lives through its infancy and makes an appreciable impact. Few things would be healthier for society than to rediscover some semblance of femininity as defined by the One who created women to be women.
I found Girls Gone Mild a fascinating read and am glad to recommend it to others.
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On October 17, eleven years ago, Julie Miller was found brutally strangled in the basement of her house in the township of Livingston, New Jersey. On that day, Will's brother, Ken Klein, became the subject of an international manhunt accused of the crime. He has not been seen since. Will has tried to get on with his life in the intervening years. He has a beautiful new girlfriend, Sheila, and a job working with the homeless. But when his mother reveals, on her deathbed, that Ken is still alive, and shortly afterwards Sheila disappears, the cracks start to show in his landscape again. But it is only when he finds that Sheila herself is wanted for a savage double-murder that his life actually starts to fall apart...
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As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins’ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman—a girl Will had once loved—was found brutally murdered in her family’s basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good.
Now eleven years have passed. Will has found proof that Ken is alive. And this is just the first in a series of stunning revelations as Will is forced to confront startling truths about his brother, and even himself. As a violent mystery unwinds around him, Will knows he must press his search all the way to the end. Because the most powerful surprises are yet to come.
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