This is probably a funny book. But at 50 pages in, I decided I just couldn't force myself to read 175 more pages of a single joke. The whole world needs satires about the "War on Terror", and I love that Porup wrote it, but I couldn't face another line comparing America's obesity problem (real) to i...
I was very happy to receive the book from the author.It's a well-written book with great details onto the characters and their backgrounds.This book revolves around Horace Mann whose nick name is horse.He lives his life by teaching English to the Criminals for which he is not very proud of .His fir...
The was a Goodreads giveaway book (Thank you very much)The story is about (one assumes) the absurdity of the Bush government and pokes fun at ideology in general by creating a 'prophet'/president who believes that eating food is an addiction that should be forcibly cured.The idea that people follow ...
Interesting one. I had trouble getting through it around the second quarter, but then it picked up again, and I enjoyed the rest of the book. I'm not giving it more stars, though, because some aspects of the book weren't so subtle, and I'm not sure this sits very well with satire. Let's just say I t...
Originally published on my blog:http://vanillamoonblog.com/2013/01/26/mini-review-unitedstatesofair/I won this book thanks to Goodreads First Reads Giveaways. Unfortunately, I couldn't enjoy it at all.I wasn't even the slightest bit amused by the jokes in this book. It was way too exaggerated for my...
Originally published on my blog:http://vanillamoonblog.com/2013/01/26/mini-review-unitedstatesofair/I won this book thanks to Goodreads First Reads Giveaways. Unfortunately, I couldn't enjoy it at all.I wasn't even the slightest bit amused by the jokes in this book. It was way too exaggerated for my...