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Amazon.com ReviewStandup comic George Carlin follows up his dark-horse smash bestseller __ with another compendium of cranky meditations, cinching his reputation as the Andy Rooney of boomer hepcats. "Road rage, air rage," Carlin rails. "Why should I be forced to divide my rage into separate categories? To me, it's just one big, all-around, everyday rage. I don't have time for fine distinctions." Carlin is not into the lengthy essay--he's a sprinter of the mind. Most sentences in the book could be lifted out to stand alone and provoke deep thought: "How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it's a spy satellite?" Good question. "Why do they bother saying 'Raw sewage'? Do some people cook that stuff?" Yuck, but yes, Carlin's got a point. He can do an extended bit too, most memorably the transcript of Jesus on a talk show plugging his new tell-all memoir about the Trinity, Three's a Crowd. Carlin is funny, but genuinely angry and poignant at times: "You live 80 years and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic," he says. Sad, but about right.And how did Carlin get into his line of business, "thinking up goofy s---," as he puts it? There's a clue in one

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Author

George Carlin

Publisher

New York : Hyperion, c2001.

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780786887583

Category

humor

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humor

Rating

4.12 / 5 (12,944 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13