Posted on August 19, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
If you’re like me, the first time you heard of The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren was during that hostage situation where the woman shared the book with her captor, eventually resulting in him releasing her. Later on, we found out that she also shared some Meth with the guy. I think Jesus had [...]
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Posted on August 11, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max is a book I’m not planning to read. Why? Well, if you’re familiar with the Tucker Max Blog, you don’t need more of the same on dead trees, and further, I already know enough Assholes, and have acted similiarly on enough occassions, to read about [...]
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Posted on August 1, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens is the kind of book that a person can write only when you are so inexperienced in life and judgement to think you know everything, or old enough to have seen too much. I say that with all sincerity, as anyone that has experienced the inevitable [...]
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Posted on July 18, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
…and:
Barbara, you are not fooling anyone with all the facelifts and the skinny jeans on the View. We can tell you are an old lady.
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She should not have written this book but her ego forced her to. How sad she had to end her brilliant career in such a manner. Sad, sad, sad.
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Posted on February 2, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
Even before you open the book, Celebrity Detox by Rosie O’Donnell your review for it is probably half-written. Rosie O’Donnell, formerly the “Queen of Nice” suffered a media backlash of biblical proportions. To her credit, rather than fighting the new media image she seemed to use it as an opportunity to reinvent her [...]
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