Alphabet of Manliness

Lifesaving.

This book cured my cancer. Unfortunately, all the ass I got because of having read this book caused me to contract herpes.

5 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

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MANLY!

After reading this book I woke up with an eye patch, five o'clock shadow,and a barrel of whiskey all from having this book's bad-a**ness delivered in one fell swoop! Awesome book!

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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Kind of hypocritical

I am, or rather used to be a huge Maddox fan. I enjoyed his site, recommended it to friends and bought the first edition of his book. I was excited to read the book, I find his honestly crude and mean humor funny. However the book disapointed me, I felt like more of his web posts were much more comical then this book. Since the book Maddox has all but abandoned the site that launched his career. I don't blame him, he's busy with many other projects and writing on a site that I can't imagine he profits a lot from due to lack of advertisers probably isn't huge on his list of priorities. However I feel like him relaunching his book with a different cover and probably a few new pages written half-assed is kind of selling out. This is exactly the kind of thing that he would criticize on his web site and now, money hungry or just an experiment to see how many of his followers will purchase another copy, he has chosen to go the typical money whoring route. I won't be buying this new edition, nor will I proably even bother to read the new updates at the local bookstore while pretending I have intentions to buy it.

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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Just plain dumb

Title makes it funny to give as a gift, but not really worth reading. Predictable.

3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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Manliness at it's best

As a female reading the book, I find it amazingly funny. Most women are totally offended by his writings, but perhaps they are offended because there's a bit of truth to his perfected form of sarcasm. This book is worth reading for anyone as long as you're not easily offended, and even if you are...maybe you should still take a look..

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Highly Recommended

Ok, i'll admit..there are several lines in the book which came directly from Maddox's site, which I found kind of annoying. However, the one liners were very few and very far between. The overall content is fresh Maddox matierial and man...it really is hilarious. Whats great is that the few stuck up a**holes who are giving it negative reviews are actually just driving people even more to read Maddox's book. They just dont get it. Thanks alot for the bad publicity...youre helping to drive sales through the roof, i'm sure. We live in age of cynicism and Maddox is the sarcasm king. Get this book. And seriously...buy 2. You'll find a friend who youll want to read it as well so you can laugh about the humor in this book.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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Sex, Mass Geniocide, Atari, and Candy...

The items listen in my headline combined do not even compare to how great this book us. Finally, a book that highlights how awesome my profession (professional lumberjack) is as well as our uniform flannel. This book is so manly, you're going to have to shave it twice a day in order to read it.

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great art, fresh content, but not Maddox's best.

Maddox is at his definite best when ranting about/making fun of something, and that's pretty much the only time this book had me laughing. Don't get me wrong, i love his website and the parts that did have me laughing had me on the floor in fits, but the expectations built up from his previous content were sorely missed.

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humororous but a little lacking

I've been a fan of Maddox's website for years now, much like a vast majority of the people who bought this book. Maddox is an interesting writer in the sense that even though his material is so insanely satirical, there are legitimate haters of his work, who think of him as an uninspired hack. There's really no other way to look at it though... you love what he does or you hate it. Personally, I think he's one of the more skilled writers around. After reading portions of this book, it would be really interesting to see if the man wrote a serious novel. Even though the book is a self-described 'manliness instruction manual,' parts of it have a very novel, almost Charles Bukowski feel to it. And much like a Bukowski novel, it ends rather abruptly, and if you're the type of reader I am, you begin to wonder where the line between autobiography and simple musings exist. This review is dragging on a bit, so I'll get to my only real complaint with the book: it's a little uneven. For A through M, the book is a consistant mix of hilarious and intriguing. Somewhere around 'N is for Norris, Chuck,' the book begins to suffer a little, and at times, you wonder if the material was rushed a little toward the end. All in all, it's a hilarious and interesting insight into the mind of a man who is either extremely evil or one of the most prolific writers of modern times. I'm voting for prolifically evil.

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Not what most might expect

Those fans of Maddox' website entries might be somewhat dissapointed with the new book. While most of it is typical Maddox, it feels very forced. Occaissionally, it is clear that Maddox sacrificed his voice to meet some other requirement (publisher requirement, lack of creativity to meet a deadline, etc.) Though the book is funny, it lacks much of what made Maddox' website 'The best.'

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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Your mom inspired this review.

Not really. But seriously, I don't understand how there are 17 reviews already about a book that no one has read yet... I'm sure it will be entertaining, as Maddox's material usually is, but it's nothing to worship. I mean, the guy isn't exactly a lumberjack/pirate himself-- he sits around in front of a computer all day. Think about it.

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looking forward to it

I've read some of Maddox's writings in the past and they usually make me bust out laughing from sheer shock or bluntness. If you get offended easily I would not recommend this book, but his taste of humor is a nice change.

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sghll Shit

1 word: epic!!!

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Fuk

Fuk

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Politically incorrect, sexist, highly offensive---and funny as hell.

Not a book for the sensitive person.

This book reminds me of Andrew Dice Clay's standup: I'd laugh out loud for the whole thing and then sit in a corner and feel ashamed of myself afterwards.

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Great book.

This was a really good book to read in regards to "manliness". It's got crude jokes, stuff about fights and things only guys will really get. I thought it was a great read, all the way through and would recommend it.

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Great Book!

I happen to be looking through a friends bookshelf one evening and came across this one. Before I had a chance to read the back of the cover my friend advised me that I would probably find the book offensive, because I'm a woman. After that being said I decided to take a look at it and emediatley I was hooked. This book is by far the best I have read in a while. It was very entertaining and funny. I didn't find it offensive at all, in fact some of the things the author wrote about woamn are very much true. After growing up with 6 brothers, I thought I knew everything there was to know, but this book showed me that I didn't. I love the authors humor and originality. I believe every guy should have a copy of this book given to him. As for woman, read at your own risk and you really need to have a sense of humor.

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Ridiculous, immature and laugh out loud funny.

Highly recommended for anyone with a good sense of humor. This book is so ridiculous yet takes itself so seriously that you can't help but laugh out loud the entire time. I was not able to put this book down until I was done reading it. Short but sweet.

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Hilarious

It's a great read. Easy, egotistic, raw humor. However, nothing that made me wince. It's a great plane read, bathroom read, wait for the dentist read, in between working read. I even brought it to a family gathering once and we couldn't put it down.

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Funniest book I've ever read

I bought this while shopping with my boyfriend. Just the first page alone was hilarious us. I plan to get it for a few of my close guy friends for X-Mas.

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