» Curmudgeing Through Paradise: Reports from a Fractal Dung Beetle
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Curmudgeing Through Paradise: Reports from a Fractal Dung Beetle Details
Binding: PaperbackEAN: 9780595443741
ISBN: 0595443745
Label: iUniverse, Inc.
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 244
Publication Date: 2007-06-19
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Release Date: 2007-06-19
Studio: iUniverse, Inc.
Curmudgeing Through Paradise: Reports from a Fractal Dung Beetle Reviews
Customer Rating:Summary: ANGRY WHITE DUDE ADMITS HIS BOOK IS FECES
Comment: typical racist angry white male stuff labeled as coming from the "dung bettle". i say why insult a useful animal?
i enjoy reading kook literature: all the crazy generalizations, all the improbable conspiracy theories but this book fails to deliver. resenment is never pretty let alone funny and the author keeps shoveling it on.
pick up an old copy of an pj orourke book where at least youll get some chuckles intermixed with the whining. this book sucks.
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Summary: Push Fred Aside and There's Gold There
Comment: The greatest drawback to Fred Reed's commentary is Fred. He gets in the way of his words some, but if you can push Fred aside there is gold in what he says, raw unadultrated truth and provocation beyond measure. The world is better for having Fred's words in it and probably profits some from having the man in it, too!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fred at his best
Comment: I've enjoyed Fred's talk on his web site for years. I don't always agree with his observations but I like his way of presenting his view without pulling punches. Refreshing,
Customer Rating:
Summary: Shining the harsh light of humor
Comment: It's not tactful to say the things Fred Reed says. It won't win him popularity with the chattering classes. But I'm pretty sure my late Dad,the blunt-speaking Marine, would have found him as entertaining and thought-provoking as I do.
I began reading Fred to see what he'd say about living in Mexico. I stayed to see what he had to say about politics, relationships, things that work and those that don't.
Want an ex-pat's view of America? A crime reporter's insight into the problems of the ghetto? A father's observations on education? A good-old boy's critique of American women his own age? Fred lets it all hang out in this compilation of his online columns, and it's a good read. If you can't admit your own sacred cows leave dung wherever they go, you won't like Fred. But you won't forget what he says, either.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Classic Fred Reed
Comment: Fred's latest is a continuation of his view of the world by a curmudgeon. His latest is equal to each of his previous books. If you like this one you will buy the former. In this age of political correctness we need a Fred Reed. One bitter-sweet view after another.
Editorial Review for Curmudgeing Through Paradise: Reports from a Fractal Dung Beetle:
Fred Reed, who has referred to Oprah Winfrey as looking “like five hundred pounds of bear liver in a plastic bag,” takes a jaundiced and highly irreverent view of all things sacred—journalism, marriage, affirmative action, federal scams, governmental uselessness, women, men, fellow reporters, and popular culture. On the other hand, he has a kind word for drunks, bar girls, and children.Neither a liberal nor a conservative—he describes these as “twin halves of the national lobotomy”—he is just Fred. He figures it is enough. Anything more would be multiple-personality disorder.
Fred has spent many years doing things your mother wouldn’t want you to do, such as living in alleys in Taipei, Bangkok, and Saigon, with some of the strangest people ever to crawl this weary earth. Once a war correspondent in Viet Nam and Cambodia, then for years a police reporter in places the media don’t admit exist, he spent most of a decade writing a syndicated column on matters military. While he tends to write with wit, he has seen, he says, a lot of ugly things, and doesn’t like the people responsible. He says so. Fred may charm or offend, but he’ll keep your attention.
"Funny, sharply observant and often deeply poignant, Fred Reed writes what a hell of a lot of Americans are thinking, but are afraid these days to say. He is delightfully beyond category for anyone with an open mind, which is probably why he lives in Mexico, far enough away that the politically correct of both camps cannot strangle him."
--Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus
