BOOK REVIEW:
Comic
Book Guy must think that I’m as cool as him.
Let’s
see, in his “Pop Culture Top 40” list, he says
that fast food promotional movie tie-ins are hip - I’ve
got loads of those. He says that the Internet is the place
where trendy people do their never-ending battle against ignorance,
bad taste and continuity accuracies - I think so too. He thinks
that anything with the tag “limited edition” and
DVD extras are modish – Spot on!
In
this madcap book filled with side-splitting pictures, silly
lists and of course, the very definitive things you must do
to be part of the global pop culture phenomenon, the man known
simply as Comic Book Guy will entertain you with his (well,
it’s really Matt Groening if you must know) wacky writing.
Part
of “The Simpsons Library of Wisdom”, this small
book is easy to carry around, makes you look fashionable and
tells you what’s in and what’s out. From chick
flicks, comic books and online dating tips to types of movie
audiences, movie T-shirts and memorable movie dialogues, it’ll
entertain you for hours, just to spot the little details in
the intricate illustrations.
Other
characters like Bart, Homer, Inspector Wiggum and Ned Flanders
do make occasional appearances in this book which will definitely
look cool on your bookshelf.
Comic
Book Guy didn’t pay me to say all these, but I think
he is one cool dude. I do not like his beer belly a lot, though.
CHOICE XCERPT:
CBG’s Dream Niche Cable Channels: Without a doubt, television
is a vast, dune-like wasteland, sorely lacking in creativity,
vision, and female wrestling. If only the TV genie were to
appear before me, such wonders I would wreak upon the airwaves,
wonders such as these cable channels, the likes of which no
fan or woman has ever seen!
VERDICT:
You
may have finished reading this book once. But you’d
want to read it again, and again, and again. Every time you
flip through the pages, you’d be smiling, you’d
be grinning, you’d be snickering. If you can, own all
the books in the series.
Review
by John Li
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