After attend his live performances his voice & fiction stats with yiu. As you read this book, you hear his voice, It's written to allow it to happen organically greatly enhancing the experience. ( )

Sam and I listened to this book through a couple of road trips. I'm not much of a fan of Lewis Black's comedy style, so I didn't have high hopes for the book. I did enjoy it, however. It was an interesting view of his life and what has lead him to have the views he does. ( )

See my blog post on it:

http://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/08/booknote-nothings-sacred.html ( )

You learn a little about Mr. Black's early years. Interesting read, especially if you lived through the same era (the 60s-70s!). ( )

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"Here's a little known fact: All the candy corn that was ever made was manufactured in 1904. That's because we don't eat enough of it and we throw most of it away. So the candy corn company sends out their representatives in early November to gather up all the discarded candy corn from the Dumpsters and bring it back to their factory, where they simply wash it off and bag it up again. A year later the same candy corn is on every coffee table in America."

"If religion is the opiate of the people, how come so many Jews seem more neurotic than sedated?"

"in short there are still plenty of places in this country where, in bar after bar on Saturday night, somebody will eventually stand up and say; "If a faggot came i here I'd kick his ass!" And this is what makes gays so cagey. most of them are too smart to hear that and respond, "Here I am, you savage!"

And so it goes.....I liked the part about taking responsibility for our children & their actions.... There was a few stories about his family.....

I love his intelligence, wit, humor & stories. I had a problem with some of the places he decided to use profanity, it seemed "put-on", but aside from that I enjoyed this book.
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