The Chickens Are Restless [Paperback]

Gary Larson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1993

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About the Author

Gary Larson lives in Oregon with his wife and a Big dog. Although retired from his job as a daily syndicated cartoonist, he is now turning his graphical talent to new forms of technology. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; Original edition (October 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0836217179
• ISBN-13: 978-0836217179
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 7.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #150,569 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Gary Larson lives in Oregon with his wife and a Big dog. Although retired from his job as a daily syndicated cartoonist, he is now turning his graphical talent to new forms of technology.

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Larsen's humor rarely fails to make me laugh., June 15, 1998

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M. Burgess (Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Chickens Are Restless (Paperback)

Many of Gary Larsen's most outrageous Far-Side characters make their cameo appearances here. Strange, irreverent, bizarre, Larsen's humor rarely fails to make me laugh or chuckle. Only occasionally does it leave me mystified.

My favorites from among this collection of Larsen's cartoons are what I call the Roadkill Tour, the Chicken at the Bottom of the Pecking Order, Monday Night in the Woods, Dodge City, Honah-Lee, Early Plumbers, Side of Ham, and the Music Teacher. But, hey, with Gary Larsen it's hard to know where to draw the line between the hysterical and the merely funny.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this!, July 26, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Chickens Are Restless (Paperback)

My Grandpa has this book and every time I visit his house, I read it. If I get finished with it and his other Far Side book, I read them all over again! This book is awesome!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tarantula Coffeehouses, The Donner Party Snow Dome, And The Magnificent Lipizzaner Cows, June 7, 2011

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Robert I. Hedges - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Chickens Are Restless (Paperback)

"The Chickens Are Restless" is another great and twisted Far Side volume, now available at a bargain price. For years the best thing in the morning paper was Gary Larson's brilliant, enigmatic, and impossible to replicate strip, and I still miss it when I read the news. This is a strong collection, exploring all the weird little crevasses of Larson's mind. When I was in college I was a biology major, and the Far Side helped me find humor in even the most trivial, and frankly unenjoyable, parts of my educational process. There's plenty of science and animal behavior humor here ("Be a virus, see the world.") but there are other even more esoteric (and occasionally culturally dated) cartoons here: one of my favorites is on p. 7, and is captioned "To the horror of the lifeboat's other members, Madonna loses her balance and falls on her face." This will make complete sense to you if you had to endure Madonna's music (and more to the point, her outfits, when she was much younger.) As an airline pilot, the other panel on the same page is probably my favorite in the book, as Ted instigates a disaster from his window seat.

This is a great and inexpensive collection, and I highly recommend it to Far Side fans or to anyone who wants a great laugh at a great price.