The Alphabet of Manliness
by Maddox
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Book Reviews of The Alphabet of Manliness
Book Review: Entertaining
Summary: 3 Stars
To start off, this book is funny. It's not quite as good as the website consistently is, but it has a lot of funny things that most people have come to expect from Maddox.
However, a few irritating things stood out to me as I read it. The first is that Maddox absolutely LOVES to try to make himself sound smart, which he does primarily by using semicolons ad nauseam. It wears pretty thin after 50 or so pages.
Second, Maddox's raging insecurity permeates every sentence in the book. The premise, though funny, is designed entirely to make Maddox feel more manly. It's pretty annoying as well, especially because he habitually ridicules insecure self-promoters on his website but does it himself.
While a lot of the ideas in his book aren't original or particularly insightful, they're very funny and it's a good light read as long as you don't mind Maddox's sometimes abrasive writing style.
Book Review: Last month I dreamed that I beat up Maddox. After reading this book last week, I called him and appologized
Summary: 5 Stars
In short this book rocked my face. From the moment I hoisted open the front cover (I believe it to be made of granite)this literary gift to the world transformed my life. I thought I was a total man prior to buying the book. When the book arrived, it slept with my wife while it made me hold its jacket. It was then I realized I needed this book. The intro alone taught me to be a man. By the time I read chapter D, my wife was pregnant even though I had not touched her. By chapter H, I had learned to fly. By chapter L, I was constructing, deep frying and eating my own machine guns. I am currently on Chapter W, but I need to take a break due to my wife and her 4 sisters who now sleep in my bed (chapter T kicked ass) being kept awake at night because of my glowing.
There is so much more to write about this book, but I am going to go practice my new Diamond-Cutting-with-my-member trick.
Book Review: A must have, unless you are gay, or a female
Summary: 5 Stars
In this sorry age of "political correctness" you can't say anything, eat something or wear anything without offending anyone.
This book is not just fun, it's exaggerated misogyny and praise of the male works as a counterweight to an overly feminized society
It reminds us that there were times when women didn't thought that they were inferior to us unless they do everything we do.
This book may seem chauvinistic, offensive, etc. but just turn all the jokes the other way around, rewrite this book, just change male for female and you have the typical feminist supremacy book, praised by women all over the world, it would be called "bold" and "empowering".
The difference is that we know that the book is not to be taken literally, is just a tool to get you thinking and hopefully make you try to become a man.
A real man.
Book Review: A Useless but Funny, Funny Book
Summary: 5 Stars
This book has no redeeming social value whatsoever, but it makes you laugh...laugh out loud laugh, guaranteed..and therein is its value...more than worth its cost for laugh value alone...That's all it's intended to be and that's all it is...but it's good, very, very good....Damn Good!...Great bathroom book, but be sure it's not the same bathroom your wife uses...Wouldn't want her to read it--unless you are really a "manly man..."
"Manliess" by Harvey C. Mansfield is so boring and unreadable you can't read it for going to sleep...This take on "manliness" is so funny, you have a hard time reading it because you are lauging so hard...but don't look for any redeeming value, social, academic or otherwise. It's just not there..but it's not intended to be here. Go to Mansfield's book for that, and be prepared to be a modernday Rip Van Winkle.
Book Review: It's entertaining, but I remember laughing a lot more when I read his website.
Summary: 4 Stars
I read a few of the letters and realized that his web articles are better. I can't say exactly why or how they are better, I can't read one of them without laughing at least once, whereas I got through A, B, and C of this book without so much as chuckling. It seems sort of... canned, or forced... On the other hand, my coworker, who has never heard of Maddox's website, read the entire book, laughing just about the entire way through - and he doesn't really like to read. I suppose that if you want this for the novelty aspect (the jacket cover alone is worth the price, I think), or you are going to give it to someone who is not familiar with Maddox's style of writing, then get it. If, on the other hand, you are familiar with the website, and you are expecting hours of entertainment from fresh Maddox material, you may want to consider abstaining.