Myopic Zeal :: May

May 17, 2006

Revisionist History

Posted by Eric at 6:11 am. Filed under: War / Terrorism

Victor Davis Hanson makes a point.

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Book Review: Help! Mom! Hollywood’s in My Hamper!

Posted by Eric at 5:46 am. Filed under: General

Previously, we reviewed the book Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed! and raved about it.

The second book by Ms. DeBrecht, Help! Mom! Hollywood is in My Hamper! is definitely clever and has an excellent message, yet didn’t get me laughing as hard. Most likely the reason is that I’m really not that much into Hollywood, I don’t follow the lives of the various “stars” with much interest at all. That said, however, even I was able to recognize the figures like Barbra Streisand, Britney Spears, etc. I come down on the side of recommending this book, but not as strongly as Katharine DeBrecht’s first one.

The basic message is essentially that Hollywood is making you discontent and causes you to want and do silly things.

DaddyPundit sums it up well:

The story involves Janie and Sam, two sisters who want to start a babysitting business to save money for a new bike. But they are also big fans of certain celebrity shows (along the lines of Entertainment Tonight or just about anything you see on E! Entertainment Network). Soon Janie and Sam start paying attention to what these celebrities have to say about fashion, manners, and other things and that’s when everything goes awry.

Broken Masterpieces liked the artwork in this book a bit better than “Liberals” but agrees with me that it’s not as funny.

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This book was provided to me by Word Ahead Publishing through Active Christian Media. No compensation was received for this review apart from the book.

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