The Blade: Shellville High School Yearbook [Paperback]

Don Novello (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 78 pages
• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co; 1st Collier Books ed edition (October 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0020295804
• ISBN-13: 978-0020295808
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.2 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,424,017 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS THE LIFE OF EVERY YEARBOOK!!!, February 11, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Blade: Shellville High School Yearbook (Paperback)

Funny, witty, and a real quality satire. If you know sheep, this book is funny. If you know high school year books, this book is funny. If you know nothing about either of the above, this book is funny. If you know the idiot publisher, kidnap, torture and hold for ransom: another printing!!!!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is everyone's high school yearbook!, April 19, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Blade: Shellville High School Yearbook (Paperback)

"The Blade" makes you laugh! Anyone who has had a high school yearbook will recognize the format. Using sheep in place of humans, Novello manages to capture all the personalities that every high school has--the jocks, the preppies, the druggies, and even the multi-sibling families that have students in each grade level! Each page of this "yearbook" has something hilarious to read, whether it pertains to the school French Club, the Soccer team, the faculty & staff, cheerleaders, or class field trips. Quite simply, it is a truly fun book, cleverly written and produced. Even the local advertisements in the back of the book are hilarious! Unfortunately, "The Blade" is "out-of-stock" and is not easy to find. If it ever reprints, I want multiple copies. Friends keep stealing my original copy

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BRING BACK THE BLADE!, December 1, 1999

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Robert W. Wivchar "Fahey Fan" (U.S.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Blade: Shellville High School Yearbook (Paperback)

Does this book have a curse on it or something? I, too, loaned this comic classic to a college roommate and never saw it again. Did anybody see Don Novello plug this book on The Tonight Show (that was the Johnny Carson days)? He appeared as Father Guido Sarducci, and showed several clips from the book in his usual understated style. My Mom and I were rolling, but Johnny didn't seem to quite cotton on to the whole idea. Anyway, the above reviews don't lie. This is absolutely the funniest thing I have ever seen. You can look through it time and again and find something new. I love the shot of the sheep playing frisbee ("Our frisbee football team didn't do so well this year.") I doubt it'll be reprinted, so we can only hope to find it used somewhere. Think of all those idiots from college who have it sitting in the back of a closet somewhere.

"More, more, more." B. Idol (quote under one of the sheep-student portraits.)