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In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy - Adam Carolla
In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy
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A couple years back, I was at the Phoenix airport bar.  It was empty except for one heavy-set, gray bearded, grizzled guy who looked like he just rode his donkey into town after a long day of panning for silver in them thar hills.  He ordered a Jack Daniels straight up, and that's when I... show more
A couple years back, I was at the Phoenix airport bar.  It was empty except for one heavy-set, gray bearded, grizzled guy who looked like he just rode his donkey into town after a long day of panning for silver in them thar hills.  He ordered a Jack Daniels straight up, and that's when I overheard the young guy with the earring behind the bar asking him if he had ID.  At first the old sea captain just laughed.  But the guy with the twinkle in his ear asked again.  At this point it became apparent that he was serious.  Dan Haggerty's dad fired back, "You've got to be kidding me, son."  The bartender replied, "New policy.  Everyone has to show their ID."  Then I watched Burl Ives reluctantly reach into his dungarees and pull out his military identification card from World War II.It's a sad and eerie harbinger of our times that the Oprah-watching, crystal-rubbing, Whole Foods-shopping moms and their whipped attorney husbands have taken the ability to reason away from the poor schlub who makes the Bloody Marys.  What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we now settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.  Adam Carolla has had enough of this insanity and he's here to help us get our collective balls back. In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks is Adam's comedic gospel of modern America. He rips into the absurdity of the culture that demonized the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, turned the nation's bathrooms into a lawless free-for-all of urine and fecal matter, and put its citizens at the mercy of a bunch of minimum wagers with axes to grind. Peppered between complaints Carolla shares candid anecdotes from his day to day life as well as his past—Sunday football at Jimmy Kimmel's house, his attempts to raise his kids in a society that he mostly disagrees with, his big showbiz break, and much, much more. Brilliantly showcasing Adam's spot-on sense of humor, this book cements his status as a cultural commentator/comedian/complainer extraordinaire. 
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780307717382 (0307717380)
ASIN: 307717380
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
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Silvie's bookshelf
Silvie's bookshelf rated it
2.0 In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy
Funny at times but somehow too angry for my taste.
Mallory Kellogg, Chubbygirlreads
Mallory Kellogg, Chubbygirlreads rated it
4.0 Review: Not As Ragey As I Figured
This book didn't make me as angry as I first figured it would. Actually, I enjoyed it. It made me laugh out loud, which few books do. Even the chapter on women made me chuckle because I had to agree with a lot of it. Granted, I skipped the chapter on God, Tolerance and Other Things That Don't Exis...
List Lover
List Lover rated it
Wow, this really kills me. I've been an Adam Carolla fan for so long and I hate to do this. But I had to stop listening to the audio version of this book once Adam declared "Men are smarter than women" and then proceeded to try to support this absurd idea.I am just tired of "us against them" thinkin...
kravmonkey
kravmonkey rated it
1.0 In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks
If you are a fan of the podcast, or his other work in general, and want a near transcription of most of his material then this book might be for you. If you are anything less than a casual fan you won't find much of anything new between the covers and will probably be bored with many of the section...
I'm A Book Shark
I'm A Book Shark rated it
3.0
I thought this was hysterical and informative. I actually learned something and took a few pieces of advice away from this book. The whole thing felt like we were having a conversation rather than me listening to a book. He added lots of stuff that was not in the book, which was very cool! He did ki...
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