If you're not careful you might learn something while dying of laughter...

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	• Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition The Onion Little, Brown and Company, 2007 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 105 reviews view larger image
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Better than any other atlas I've ever read

This book is sarcastic, cynical, and even offensive (if you're the typed to be offended easily). However, it's more informational than you think. I think I'd loved to read textbooks more if they were all like "Our Dumb World."

A Great Gift

This was a great gift choice for anyone that enjoys satire and a world view. It's also great for any place, such as on a plane, where you might want to read short and humorous articles.

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If you're not careful you might learn something while dying of laughter...

I had my doubts when I read reviews saying this was The Onion's best book ever - their annual article compendia are so damn good that's a high bar - but this is simply an amazing piece of work. Sure, the humor is tasteless, brutal, and politically incorrect - but come on, that's why I read The Onion and not The Journal of International Hugging and Puppies and Kittens: I LIKE that stuff. Anyone who picks up a book with the phrase "Better-Veiled Xenophobia" on the cover and gets offended by the content should not be allowed to return it, but instead should be charged double for it. Anyway, the strange thing I'm finding is that it's forcing me to learn about the world outside the I-95 corridor. I've never been geographically aware; I always thought "Senegal" was a constipation medication and "California" was a lunatic asylum with Congressional representation. But in a perverse way, this book is helping me learn more about other lands (I'm still right about California, though). I've found it best read with Wikipedia on hand to look up the satirical references... what happened in Lisbon in 1755? Did The Onion make up a country that basically controls a big river inside another country? Is the Democratic Republic of Congo really that screwed up? Is Queen Rania hot? (Answers: Lots of bad things; No, it's Gambia; Apparently; and Oh my, yes.) Among the best sections, mainly due to the amusing tone they take, are Jordan, Suriname, San Marino, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and "The Seriously Who Cares Islands". But it's all damn good. If you understand what satire is and is supposed to do, and can get over the fact that they make fun of both "Save Darfur" people AND Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie, you'll laugh yourself silly - and maybe learn a thing or three if you're not careful. Beyond excellent.

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Funny book

Bought copies of the book for my 3 early 20's sons. They loved it as they read the Onion all the time.

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