The Lost Blogs: From Jesus to Jim Morrison--The Historically Inaccurate and Totally Fictitious Cyber Diaries of Everyone Worth Knowing [Paperback]

Paul Davidson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 8, 2006

Over 13,000,000 people are currently blogging with thousands being created each day. But what about the blogs you haven't seen, written by the iconic men and women you're dying to know the most intimate details about but who died before the internet was invented? This original take on the biggest literary development since the paperback offers 200 blogs inspired by the most famous minds in history, detailing their hysterical personal revelations, such as: John Lennon's thoughts after meeting Yoko Ono (and her obsession with the Beatles' publishing rights): Marilyn Monroe's annoyance at her new beau 'J', who breaks off their dates with excuses like having to avert a war in Costa Rica: Read Shakespeare on a treatment for a new play about two princes who misplace their horse and carriage and spend the entire play trying to find it or how a stray hot dog nearly derailed Ghandi's hunger strike: There's also the transcript of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's intensely competitive game of "Rocks, Paper, Scissors," to decide who would be the first man to set foot on the moon and much, much more. In this book Paul Davidson proves that matters, proving there's no such thing as "too much information."

Editorial Reviews

Review

'Hilarious...this book will have you laughing out loud' - Andy Borowitz 'I couldn't put it down. Some of the best writing since SEINFELD' - Jerry Stiller

About the Author

Paul Davidson is a television producer and screenwriter with numerous shows to his credit. He lives in California with his wife and their dog.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition (May 8, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446697389
• ISBN-13: 978-0446697385
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,897,825 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

It is true that most of the free world knows Paul Davidson best for his side-splitting humor book Consumer Joe: Harassing Corporate America One Letter At A Time (Random House/Broadway Books) which stormed onto the scene and almost, just barely, brought peace to everyone on Earth. But when Davidson is not harassing corporate America, he is lending his talents to a variety of other time consuming media projects like his second humor book, The Lost Blogs (Warner Books, May 2006), the TV version of Consumer Joe, and his screenwriting career. In addition he s also produced a slew of shows that range from ABCs The Mole, The Benefactor and FOXs The Princes of Malibu. When Paul is not obsessing over visual media, he is a regular contributor to Wired and Mental_Floss magazines, and a commentator for NPRs All Things Considered. And lest we forget the most important of them all, Pauls high-traffic weblog Words For My Enjoyment (http://pauldavidson.net) racks in over 2,000 unique visitors a day.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Historical Tom Foolery..., April 29, 2006

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James V. DiCola "The Seinfeldian" (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lost Blogs: From Jesus to Jim Morrison--The Historically Inaccurate and Totally Fictitious Cyber Diaries of Everyone Worth Knowing (Paperback)

My copy of "The Lost Blogs was just delivered this morning. I couldn't put it down.

Jesse James calls his blog "the scribblin space". Alexander the Great calls his "The Greatest Blog in the History of Blogs". Even Jesus Christ loves to have your e-mail "bless his inbox". And who would have thought with all the super computers available at NASA, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin would resort to "Rock, Paper, Scissors" to see who would be first to walk on the moon

It looks like famous historical people have no problem getting into the blog phenomenon. I think Davidson is a demented genius. He gets to the fake REAL stories behind the stories. Great read, though I can't help thinking Davidson might be suffering from a case of historical figure schizophrenia.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't Be Funnier!, April 30, 2006

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Chris Bollinger "Chris" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lost Blogs: From Jesus to Jim Morrison--The Historically Inaccurate and Totally Fictitious Cyber Diaries of Everyone Worth Knowing (Paperback)

Just read the book and as expected, I was not disappointed. This guy is just plain funny and has an odd and humorous take on everything. Great read!!

5.0 out of 5 stars A jubilee of blogging fun!!!, April 29, 2006

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Meme (NY, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lost Blogs: From Jesus to Jim Morrison--The Historically Inaccurate and Totally Fictitious Cyber Diaries of Everyone Worth Knowing (Paperback)

This book is hilarious. If anyone had a doubt about the power of blogging on the course of history all they need to do is read this book and ponder how different the world would be.

I know if Freud had been a blogger I'd have the rss feed to his comment section up on my bloglines.

In a nutshell, Paul Davidson has outdone himself. Absolutely brilliant!