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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
RIP one of the funniest men full of REASON whom ever lived
I normally like Carlin's riffs a lot. This one was just a big yawn, with a fair amount of misogyny and homophobia thrown in.
Although some of the humor fell flat for me, I did enjoy a lot of the social critiques. Carlin is extremely insightful and has a talent for attacking sensitive issues with humor and mockery.
It's entertaining to read his writings almost just as it is entertaining to watch his comedy shows. He uses a lot of counterintuitive ways of looking at things and talking about stuff. I see that mostly as a good thing to try to break static views and shift paradigms. The book does get boring at many instances though. Like I would be scanning pages because I just want to get over with that page or section. So it's not all enjoyable. Also, you can't read it for too long at one time because too much of George Carlin can be annoying sometimes.
Half the book was okay ... some of that was even funny. I did laugh while reading it. However, some of it was not funny - it was tacky or stupid or I thought something that was just bad taste. And I obviously do not share some of his views, which was a turn off.