A.D. PeterkinCritiques

Some of the terminology is a bit dated, but I can't see sitting and doing an entire read through. I can use it for a reference when I'm looking for another word for thrust, or penis.

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Ages: 3-8
Soure: Amazon

When I first heard the title of this book, The bald-headed hermit and the artichoke, before I ever knew what it was, it brought a smile to my face. When I saw the full title, The bald-headed hermit and the artichoke : an erotic thesaurus, I realized that it was not just my dirty mind, the title did have hidden meaning. Not well hidden but hidden. I was curious but not willing to spend money to satisfy my curiosity I had to wait several years to find the book on a book trading site. Honestly it was worth the wait.

Naughty language is, lets say colorful. Any heterosexual male knows how to draw attention to a thing of beauty, “Look at that (fill in singular noun) or look at those (anything that comes in pairs (except pants))” But there are entire vocabularies of naughtiness outside the realm on hetero males. They are in here.

The book and some reviews of it make claims of scholarship but the inclusion of a scattering of small poorly reproduced photos exposes that as a lie. The book is no more scholarly, or less entertaining than Charles Funk’s collection of old sayings, “A Hog on Ice and Other Curious Expressions”.

Of course if you are easily offended you should not bother with this book, it is also definitely not suitable for the workplace. However, if you need just the right word to express your disgust with a scatological turn of phrase or want to exactly express your admiration for an anatomical specimen then this is the book for you.

Does the world really need a book on how to put things on your fridge? Apparently, yes. A little better than half this book is on creating "themes" to decorate the fridge (birthdays, holidays, horror movie, Buy-Me-a-Puppy Propaganda, etc.), plus directions on how to make some of the items, which are mostly magnetic poetry-type things. (There are separate directions for making individual word magnets, sentences, and headlines. I would think any reasonable kid would be able to extrapolate from "I write a single word on a magnet"to "I write several words on a magnet," but I guess not.)

The rest of the book--the first part, actually, making this review impressively out of sequence--is a bit of tongue-in-cheek history and theory on fridge art. The problem is that the history is a mix of accurate and way-off-the-mark information, talking about the ancient Romans and their ice pits before talking about how cave art is an early example of fridge art, since "you have cavemen figuring out that brontosaurus steaks don't smell as gross when they are kept in the coolest part of the cave."

Not the most useful book ever written, certainly, and it's hard to know who would bother picking this up.

This offers a great history of the mustache dating way back to medieval times to the present. The author provides a great index and contemporary viewpoint of the mustache, it's uses, symbolism, and style changes through time. The main title, "One Thousand Mustaches" is a bit mislead, as one would expect the author to illustrate each mustache individually. The index is somewhat useful to find information about the select styles of staches listed in the book, but often times a stache will be mentioned in the text without reference to the mention in the index.

I did appreciate the authors seriousness in cataloguing the mustache. It was be annoying if the author had a tone of irony the entire time. With that said, it is a light right and pretty interesting. It is well researched and well organized. No mention of the Federal Mustache Tax Amendment, however.

Pretty much anything you would ever want to know about facial hair is included in Peterkin's book. It contains entertaining chapters on everything from bearded women to the significance of facial hair in the gay community. One big annoyance was the sidebars that can wrap around and cover several pages worth of margins, meaning that you have to pick a spot to stop reading the main text and go after the additional stuff.½

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