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Always Remember to Tip Your Ninja: And Other Maxims for the Clinically Absurd by Jeremy C. Shipp
becaboo24's review against another edition
3.0
What a silly, crazy, delightful book.
This is a good read for the bored reader who enjoys absurdities. :)
This is a good read for the bored reader who enjoys absurdities. :)
phlegyas's review against another edition
3.0
Yeah, uhmmm, truth be told, I wanted to like this book. I had no clue what it was gonna be like when I started reading it but the title alone and the graphic on the front page had me rooting for it.
I can't say it was bad. It wasn't.
But, it was definitely not as good as I would have wanted it to be.
There are a couple (or more) of little "maxims" that I found absolutely hysterical.
The rest were alright.
Oh, granted, language may be an issue here. So, take my foreign point of view with a grain of salt.
It only takes about 20 minutes to finish so, I'd definitely say that it's something interesting to keep around for a moment of "nothing-better-to-do".
I can't say it was bad. It wasn't.
But, it was definitely not as good as I would have wanted it to be.
There are a couple (or more) of little "maxims" that I found absolutely hysterical.
The rest were alright.
Oh, granted, language may be an issue here. So, take my foreign point of view with a grain of salt.
It only takes about 20 minutes to finish so, I'd definitely say that it's something interesting to keep around for a moment of "nothing-better-to-do".
calypte's review
2.0
It was free, so I shouldn't complain too much! But while a couple of the 'maxims' were amusing, mostly they were just odd or silly. The one per page pads out the 'book', which is really only a couple of pages at most otherwise - I read it all in probably about five minutes?
Overall just a bit pointless, not as funny as it thinks it is, and brief to the point of not being there.
Overall just a bit pointless, not as funny as it thinks it is, and brief to the point of not being there.
mrfrank's review
2.0
Jeremy Shipp's ALWAYS REMEMBER TO TIP YOUR NINJA a a collection of 99 offbeat wittisisms. The namesake title being one with additional gems like: Enemies are just friends that hate you and The pen is mightier then the sword if you know where to poke it. This is what I would call the worlds first coffee table eBook. Only two stars for the sake of it not being a story of any sort but I could extend it to a third star if I could print it out and put it out for topical discussion at parties.
xterminal's review
4.0
Jeremy C. Shipp, Always Remember to Tip Your Ninja and Other Maxims for the Clinically Absurd (Attic Clown Press, 2011)
Admit it. You, assuming you were old enough to even remember such things, are one of the fools who plunked down $12.95 for a copy of the Deep Thoughts compilation the Saturday Night Live crew put out twenty years ago. You must have been, because the damned thing sold like hotcakes. I know this from personal experience, I was managing a bookstore at the time. In any case, here we have an updated, bizarro, and infintely superior book of homilies, Jeremy C. Shipp's Always Remember to Tip Your Ninja and Other Maxims for the Clinically Absurd. I was planning on spending my one-paragrapher comparing it to the Handey book (this one is twelve times cheaper and a lot funnier), but as I write this I find myself wanting to compare it more to other bizarro books. Shipp has a subtler sense of humor than a lot of bizarro I've read, which I appreciate. I grant you, “more subtle” is a relative term; where someone like Andersen Prunty or Jordan Krall has all the subtlety of a week-old dead haddock (and I say that with the greatest love, guys), Shipp is a week-old dead haddock who has at least been forgotten in the back of the fishmonger's freezer, and has thus decayed less rapidly. I expected this stuff to be the kind of out-of-left-field originality that one expects from bizarro, but instead Shipp takes his launchpads all too often from the dumbest clichés, old saws, and wives' tales you've ever heard, and simply amplifies the dumb a little. Now THAT'S comedy! And if you're dusting along a bookshelf you totally forgot you had and run across a copy of Deep Thoughts, then trust me, you owe it to yourself to buy a copy of this. *** ½
Admit it. You, assuming you were old enough to even remember such things, are one of the fools who plunked down $12.95 for a copy of the Deep Thoughts compilation the Saturday Night Live crew put out twenty years ago. You must have been, because the damned thing sold like hotcakes. I know this from personal experience, I was managing a bookstore at the time. In any case, here we have an updated, bizarro, and infintely superior book of homilies, Jeremy C. Shipp's Always Remember to Tip Your Ninja and Other Maxims for the Clinically Absurd. I was planning on spending my one-paragrapher comparing it to the Handey book (this one is twelve times cheaper and a lot funnier), but as I write this I find myself wanting to compare it more to other bizarro books. Shipp has a subtler sense of humor than a lot of bizarro I've read, which I appreciate. I grant you, “more subtle” is a relative term; where someone like Andersen Prunty or Jordan Krall has all the subtlety of a week-old dead haddock (and I say that with the greatest love, guys), Shipp is a week-old dead haddock who has at least been forgotten in the back of the fishmonger's freezer, and has thus decayed less rapidly. I expected this stuff to be the kind of out-of-left-field originality that one expects from bizarro, but instead Shipp takes his launchpads all too often from the dumbest clichés, old saws, and wives' tales you've ever heard, and simply amplifies the dumb a little. Now THAT'S comedy! And if you're dusting along a bookshelf you totally forgot you had and run across a copy of Deep Thoughts, then trust me, you owe it to yourself to buy a copy of this. *** ½
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