Cold Bacon [Paperback]

Cold Bacon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2006

Humor, Satire, Film Criticism.

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Cold Bacon Publishing (March 1, 2006)
• ISBN-10: 0977906906
• ISBN-13: 978-0977906901
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,551,392 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A poem in urls, a riddle in great foreign words, April 3, 2006

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Sweet Baba O'Reilly (Queens, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cold Bacon (Paperback)

It's easy to love coldbacon.com, but it's easier for bibliophiles to enjoy this compilation of rants, insane journal entries, parody and more. It is a unique piece of modern art, taking the peculiarly intimate displacement of accidental web tourism and packaging it in a seductive little paperback that will tease you on the bus or in the broom closet. Has anything remotely similar been done before? I'd be interested to know, but CB's voice is inimitable ... This is your brain. This is your brain with a slab of coldbacon. Much juicier! no question...

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You've read the website, now surf the book, April 4, 2006

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alsolikelife (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cold Bacon (Paperback)

For years Cold Bacon (Cold to his friends, Bacon to friends posing as anonymous reviewers) has entertained a whole host of loyal fans and random unsuspecting visitors with his site coldbacon.com. Bacon's site offers a beguiling mix of hit-and-run guerrilla critical thought-pieces on literature, movies and wine, trimmed with irreverent humor as whimsical as balloons (minus the hot air). Now we have Cold Bacon The Book. What does it mean for Bacon to go from pushing the aesthetic boundaries of the online experience to old-school bricks-and-paper publishing? Has he gone conservative? Well, maybe a tad nostalgic -- the book is a compendium of highlights from his many years of online activity: reviews, random musings, even emails received from everyone ranging from Dave Eggers inquiring about publishing one of Bacon's pieces to a grade schooler asking for help with her peppermint soda science experiment. At times the streams of instant messages, banner ad text and blog reflections take on the shape and rhythms of poetry. It's a funny, absurd and revealing look at how the internet has revolutionized the nature of human interaction. Therefore you must buy it immediately.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny stuff, March 22, 2006

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PhilWill (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cold Bacon (Paperback)

This book is pure and it's smart. Hard to pin down, but I can't help thinking that if Jonathan Ames, Stephen Wright, David Hasselhoff, McSweeneys and Mario Batali all drowned in a pool of Star Jones's vomit, the book would fill in admirably. I first checked out ColdBacon online, but it just works better on paper.