1964 H.S. Yearbook Re-Issue [Hardcover]

P. J. O'Rourke (Editor), Doug Kenney (Editor), Shawn Coyne (Editor)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Rugged Land Books (April 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0930368355
• ISBN-13: 978-0930368357
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,609,123 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So you decided to waste the rest of your life..., August 25, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: 1964 H.S. Yearbook Re-Issue (Hardcover)

Go on. Admit it. You spent four glorious beer and church filled years imagining that you would be the first space-going president to win the super-bowl. Makes that oily stench of axel grease and lube on your hands reek just a little more, doesn't it.

See, vicious humor isn't all "Children's Letters to the Gestapo". Not at all. Doug Kenney(the actual author of this book, PJ was his assistant) founded the National Lampoon and with it a school of humor that traded the pies and doctor jokes of Georgie Jessel for what Michael O'Donoghue called "900 ice picks in the brain pan". This is his finest hour.

The look, the feel, the people, the words, all of them seem exactly like they fell out of one of those Sandusky, Ohio cookie-cutter yearbooks with names like "The WildCat" or "Let's Pretend We All Have Bright Futures". Everything is so perfect that you lose yourself in the moment until you realize that your high-school principal probably didn't sneak around campus leaving excrement bombs to be commented on in the student newspaper.

For those of you who think National Lampoon began with Animal House and ended with Senior Trip, this book is what the former was based on. Larry Kroger and Flounder can be seen here, staring at the reader with dead white eyes and waiting for college to get them the hell out.

Kenney shows us the comedy of America by imitating it perfectly. After all, What the hell could be funnier that what is already here?

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BACK IN PRINT, February 22, 2003

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J - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1964 H.S. Yearbook Re-Issue (Hardcover)

This book will be republished in fall 2003 with an addendum - where are they now? I can't wait...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Larry Kroger, live like him!!, November 7, 2001

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Nagronsky "Nagronsky" (Skagit Valley, Wa USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1964 H.S. Yearbook (Hardcover)

You all know Larry, from his term at Faber College. This is his HS yearbook. I'll bet you never knew that Fawn Liebowitz, the coed tragically martyred in a kiln explosion, went to Kefauver High with Larry. This must be reprinted. This is my favorite NatLamp offshoot, along with their Bicentennial Calendar, except this is good every year, year around, while my Bicentennial Calendar only seems to work about every 12 years or so. How strange.