DJLinus

Anyone else going to pick up The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book) : A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction? I think a parody of civics text books sounds pretty funny and these guys will likely do a good job. Stewart's last book (Naked Pictures of Famous People) was hilarious. I'm looking forward to this one.

MrX

I've had it preordered for a couple of weeks. The audio book up at audible.com is hilarious.

darkside

Listened to the audiobook three times already. The regular book version is a must buy for me.

PalmerJoss

I picked this up today and thumbed through it a bit when I got home. Some verrrrry funny stuff. Even the table of contents is hilarious! I hope that this won't be the final book from the Daily Show crew.

DJLinus

Anyone know the B&M prices for this? Just wondering if I should order it online or go with instant gratification.

Chew

I went to Barnes & Noble and it was 20% off. So, $19.96 plus tax. I didn't check anywhere else and ended up ordering it from Amazon.

Kal Varnsen

I ordered it from Overstock.com for $14.49. That's the best deal I've seen online.

dick_grayson

i ordered it from amazon. still waiting to ship....

wolverine1028

$14 and change at costco. Standing in the long lines waiting to pay and read a few pages. Very funny.

Joe Molotov

I ordered from Overstock as well.

After thumbing through a copy at Hastings, I knew I had to get it.(Although not from there; they wanted $24.95 for it.) Just the back of the book is hilarious...

"Ripped unjustly from the hands of my ancestors or not, America (The Book) is a great read!"
~Chief Standing Ox, Navajo Tribe

DarkestPhoenix

Man, I can hardly stand the show anymore...but maybe in book form it'd be funnier. I might scan through and see if it's worthwhile. If it's Republican slamming like usual, I think I'll pass.

darkside

Its political slamming as usual. Kerry and the democrats take as much crap as Bush and the republicans. The show is pretty much the same. They have always been equal opportunity insulters. The Republicans have been on top for four years though so they are going to be the bigger targets. Not to mention every time our president opens his mouth his comments beg to be part of a punchline.

Tsar Chasm

The Daily Show is as partisan as it comes wrt political humor.

Tom Banjo

Gotta love the Skulls vs. Bones poster. That's about to go up on my wall.

Birrman54

at least you can admit it.

I still can enjoy most of the headlines, and I always love the correspondents, but the bias in Jon leaps out during interviews.

I'm goign to go check out this book this weekend, if B & N has it for a reasonable price I'll probably buy it.

birrman54

DJLinus

Totally, but funny is funny.

I finally picked this up today. It's $16.21 at Media Play this week, so I price matched at Best Buy (gotta get those Reward Zone points). That's around the same price as Overstock.com (w/ shippng), plus I get the instant gratification. Just flipping through it, it looks pretty funny.

Kal Varnsen

It's #1 on the NY Times bestseller list!
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/

darkside

Not surprised at all. Funniest thing I have read in a long time.
Stewart has a little video clip on Amazon thats kind of funny as well.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/am...016745515E0DC7

musick

another reason not to shop at Walmart
as if another reason is really needed

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor..._mart_no_nudes

Birrman54

I picked it up, I've been sort of reading slowly, I don't have that much free time. I'm through about 100 pages, and it's hilarious.

to TDS

birrman54

The Antipodean

About halfway through it, finally bought it, love it so far. Keep having flashbacks to my high school history class when I was younger and thought history was boring (now I'm older and quite like history, which in a way makes this book even funnier than I can get the William McKinley and Salmon Chase jokes).