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The biggest hoax of all, March 8, 2006
This review is from: Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S. (Paperback)
Following the huge success of 'The Museum of Hoaxes' I waited in anticipation for the follow up, 'Hippo Eats Dwarf'.
However dear readers, I was shocked when I learned the horrible truth behind this book. Alex Boese DID NOT write this book. Nor did he even pen MoH.
The truth is, a team of highly trained monkeys have been working around the clock for the past two years, getting paid literally peanuts, to churn out yet another best seller.
I'll give you a minute to come to grips with this shocking news.
At first I was in denial, I felt cheated and gullible. However, after a while I began to realise just how wonderful this breakthrough was. If we can help these monkeys have a successful career just by buying their book, isn't that worth something? So buy this book now! Do your bit to help an underprivilged primate suceed in the cut throat publishing industry today.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Revolutionary vision from an amazing oracle, March 9, 2006
This review is from: Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S. (Paperback)
Translated from the original German, this testament has a few inaccuracies which lead to some confusion (and thus the title), but for the most part it can be followed by the faithful as a devotional and spiritual guide (which is it's true purpose after all).
Alex Boese has transformed his knowledge of hoax and deception into an inspirational message of peace and love through the very vehicle which he so eloquently debunks in one paragraph and utilizes for his missive within that very same paragraph. An adept wordsmith, interlacing scripture with text in a seamless series of lessons meant to raise awareness and spark enlightened to what shall surely become comme il faut.
I found myself becoming morbidly fascinated by the number of subtly prophetic insights Alex injected into this manuscript. The numerous animal references obviously point out that we should all be more open minded about our relationships with animals and the expression of our feelings in a more romantic fashion without fear of ridicule or judgement by the less enlightened masses, and yet there are certain prohibitions which are to be observed in order to preserve the decorum of this most sacred act. A less astute writer would have missed this fine point and mislead his readers. There is also the interjection of the need for the reader to proclaim their allegiance to this religion and modify their behavior in such a way as to lead the masses into a new age of enlightenment. This IS truly a field guide to hoaxes, BUT what is written between the lines is that which we must all follow: The prescription laid out in this tome to create a new utopia, through guile and deception, as the "ends justify the means".
The gullible and moronic few will only see the superficial camouflage Alex has deviously woven his message into that can be interpreted as a "follow-up" novel to his previous work, Museum of Hoaxes. The reality of this effort is a crusade by a visionary prophet to guide & convert the populace to Nirvana through subliminal and carefully crafted nemonic clues within this masterwork. I applaud my new mentor and recommend this fine work to everyone, everywhere.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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More than meets the eye, March 8, 2006
This review is from: Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S. (Paperback)
At face value, this book appears to be merely a collection of amusing tales--a poignant portrait of the interaction of guile and gullibility. That is, until you realize that it is also a vehicle for encrypting the prophesies of cult leader and pareidolically-recognizable religious icon, Alex Boese. This neoskeptic messiah has posted his challenge to his hoaxaphilic disciples in a way that only the best can appreciate.
His encryption methods don't appear to be new. After a thorough search using the techniques employed in Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, I found very little that was more complicated than the equidistant letter sequences of the Torah Codes. In public interviews Boese has made oblique references to the existence of an additional, deeper layer of encryption, which is only evident when you've decoded all the messages in all of his books. Not for one minute do I doubt that Alex had the foresight to begin this complicated undertaking with his first book, but given his penchant for hoaxes, I'm reluctant to begin the search.
Buy the book. Leave it on the coffee table for chuckles. But if you desire the gnosis of Boese, you'll need to dig below the surface. Happy decoding.
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