I Am America (And So Can You!)

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It's a hit!

I thought this book was hilarious! The entire time, Stephen Colbert's voice was going through my head and I felt like I was watching the show.

 

 

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Stephen Colbert... our favorite pretentious pseudo-Catholic conservative poster boy whose playful sarcasm and purposeful conceit and belligerence m... (show more)

Stephen Colbert... our favorite pretentious pseudo-Catholic conservative poster boy whose playful sarcasm and purposeful conceit and belligerence most of us have come to love. His book was about the same way. The book covered a wide range of topics from the family to religion and everything you could ever want to read about and it was basically all of his opinion--which is obviously what we bought the book to read. The book is worth a few chuckles here and there and he is generally kind to people who don't have the same views but its very straightforward that he dislikes non-Christians, homosexuals, and liberals. What vexes me about Colbert is that I have no idea if his belligerence is his real self and if he really believes these things as fervently as he says or if he is just acting to stir things up. Either way, the book starts off well and laughable, but I didn't make it to the end because it all stays very same-y. I like his sarcasm and wit but the same kinds of "things a conservative would say" get really annoying. (show less)

 

 

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  Saitre has found a new master in the hands of Mr. Stepehn Colbert. His quirky, over the top rantings made this a very enjoyable book. I also chose the audio book route, which could have actually been a better choice. Having the author "yell" the book at me brought a smile to my face just reading those words on the box. The manner in which he read was obviously in the same vein as watching the Colbert Report, so if you are a fan of that show, you should give this a try. Colbert'... (show more)

  Saitre has found a new master in the hands of Mr. Stepehn Colbert. His quirky, over the top rantings made this a very enjoyable book. I also chose the audio book route, which could have actually been a better choice. Having the author "yell" the book at me brought a smile to my face just reading those words on the box. The manner in which he read was obviously in the same vein as watching the Colbert Report, so if you are a fan of that show, you should give this a try. Colbert's use of pop culture, ramblings that could make either the far right or far left proud, and totally lack and admission of not having anything facts to super his view were hilarious. The sections on religion, sports, and Hollywood were probably my favorites, but from start to finish this was thoroughly enjoyable. Give it a go, it's the American thing to do. (show less)

   

   

  by Jeff Heavlin on Oct 20, 2009 at 10:52AM

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  This book like the Colbert Report is amazingly funny. The entire time all you can hear is Stephan Colberts voice saying everything you are reading. It's also a farely quick read.
  Pretty much all of the book is sort of like a satire. Colbert is pretending to be a extremely republican extremely christain person bashing things like homosexuals and evolution, showing how people who are actually like that how dumb they sound.
  This book was just full of wackiness and sarcasam.
  It's also not jus... (show more)

  This book like the Colbert Report is amazingly funny. The entire time all you can hear is Stephan Colberts voice saying everything you are reading. It's also a farely quick read.
  Pretty much all of the book is sort of like a satire. Colbert is pretending to be a extremely republican extremely christain person bashing things like homosexuals and evolution, showing how people who are actually like that how dumb they sound.
  This book was just full of wackiness and sarcasam.
  It's also not just a straight read, there are random pictures, and pretend "activities" throughout that break up the reading. Each chapter also covered the many issues we have in America today like, religion, race, and science problems.
  I agree that this isn't a book to read all at once, it is deffinitly better to read chapters at a time, it's alot easier that way to see the humor.
  Deffinitly check this book out. (show less)

   

   

  by Facebook User on Aug 03, 2009 at 02:25PM

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