Review: The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword, If You Know Where To Poke It
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 5, 2011
I don't give out 5-star reviews very often, but if I did, this would be like a 4.57892. Jeremy C. Shipp managed to make me laugh on 57 out of 99 pages, and that's saying a lot because most authors only make me laugh 43% of the time.You can read this book in less than half an hour. That's twice the time it takes to fertilize the porcelain garden - unless you are massively constipated.For 99 cents, the value of "Always Remember to Tip Your Ninja: And Other Maxims for the Clinically Absurd" is a full 1 cent per maxim. That's less expensive than Nietzsche's aphorisms. And he's dead.Seriously. No, seriously. This book is funny. Not all of the maxims are drop dead funny, but you'll laugh out loud at least three times, I guarantee you. And the funny thing is, it's not all full of dirty words. I mean, making people laugh in the 21st century without dropping a buttload of F-bombs is like waiting for the gumdropocalypse without a ski mask with a gas canister filter attached. But Jeremy C. Shipp manages to pull it off one short wise word at time.