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The Harvard Lampoon's Guide to College Admissions: The Comprehensive, Authoritative, and Utterly Useless Source for Where to Go and How to Get in

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What a delightful reality check for those who feel that children need to read by age 2, learn computer software on their parents lap at 6 months etc. Let kids be kids- at least until they are 5 years old!!!!

This is the worst book I have ever read. The Harvard Lampoon should be ashamed of rushing this piece of rubbish to print without trying to make it either helpful or funny. It is an unfunny waste of almost 200 pages and I regret that some poor publisher was duped into printing this. The Lampoon's other books are terrible so I'm not surprised this one turned out terribly too.

Yo, I read this book and let me just tell you one thing and that is that it is the bomb, yo. I didn't read the whole thing, but I read most of it, and the only reason i didn't read the whole thing was i was laughing too hard!! I was eating cereal once and milk came out of my nose when i was reading this book. The stuff about the SAT and also the stuff about Brown U. was TOTALLY right-on. I have never laughed so hard at anything, not even when we put my cat in the microwave or anything like that. this is sincerely the funniest thing in the world.

The Lampoon's newest masterwork is amazing. It is the first book I have ever read. My mom was so happy when I finished it that she slapped one of her irremovable gold stars on my forehead. I can't really read yet, as I am two and three-quarters, but the illustrations were top notch. They really helped me get through all those words and understand what they were talking about. I don't know who ALB is, but if its a girl, I want to meet her and take her out to dinner and also borrow any turpentine she may have as nothing else will remove these gold stars. I highly recommend it because, contrary to popular belief, it does not sting when you apply it to the skin and it makes you see funny pictures--just like the Lampoon book. :)

--MLO

I purchased this book with hopes of providing our students a lighthearted alternative in our college resource room, only to find it to be a silly, often offensive and weak attempt at parody. Too bad.

The only fitting description is found within the title: "utterly useless." To the recycling bin it goes.

Look, I don't consider myself much of a "reader" or what have you. I've never gone for the Jewish arts of booklearning. I'm not queer or anything like that. But sometimes in your life you just come across a book that changes everything. A book that really makes you stop and think. A book that seems almost revelatory. I don't even know what revelatory means. A book that gives you an epiphany. Is this that book? No. Well, okay, maybe it is. I love you and I love this book. 5 stars, baby!!!!

Believe me: I had to read this book for a review I wrote for a little newspaper called THE HARVARD CRIMSON. So I read the Harvard Lamepoon's latest attempt at being 'funny' in a 'hilarious' way that 'makes' people 'laugh' 'hard,' and let me just tell you, Amazon reader/shoppers, it in no way was as funny as any other thing that they ever wrote, which also was not funny at all. if you want funny, read the tongue-in-cheek piece I wrote in the HARVARD CRIMSON on the Harvard Tequilla Club. Get your drink on boy!!

please send me an email if you want to talk more. My name is Vicky Hallet and I attend Harvard University. I live off campus.

sure, lunch sounds great. How about Cluster's (on Clarize, like two doors down from the flower shop)? Just to get the air totally clear, I don't want you to get any funny ideas in your head about that if I agree to lunch than there's any chance of us getting back together. Remember: it was your who "needed some 'me time'" about three weeks ago. I dont' know what's happened since then, i don't want to know, i'm seeing a really great guy (who, in contrast to certain-people-who-shall-remain-nameless, treates me like a lady), and you ahve to deal with your own problems. i've already cried my eyes out over you.

How's 1:30? -Linda

"Lyrical. Poetic. A tour-de-force. Sad-making. Pretty. A tour de france. Me likey book. Heart-rending." These are all adverbs. They are in no way related to this book. But this is more than merely a book- it's also a poem, a meditation on the difference between Pert Plus and Head&Shoulders , a 24-hour convenience store, a box of fruit, my virginity and also Vitas Gerulalitis. Quite simply it's the best WWII novel I've ever read.

I died when I read this book, literally! It is so freaking funny. My favorite part is when they talk about the different colleges. I don't go to college, but if I did I bet they would write about it, and you know what? It would be frigging the bomb just like the rest of this book! Man oh man I am literally still rolling on the floor from this book, literally! Buy it, you won't regret it. It makes a wonderful gift for your child in high school.

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