Customer Reviews

The Onion's Finest News Reporting, Volume 1 (Vol.1)

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Here's a review that is on the average star. If you don't read the Onion, consider this a five star review. If you do read The Onion it's a three star review. Why? It's just a bunch of rehashes of stories that were funny once, but don't hold up.

Also problematic are the editorials. They are amusing but they don't hit the laugh-out loud hilarity of the rest of the articles. The only consistantly funny part of the editorial portion are the "What do you think" which always hits the maddeningly inarticulate and useless statements of the "man on the street" interviews perfectly.

So buy it for someone that you know doesn't read The Onion, but if you want to read an Onion book, buy Our Dumb Century.

For new fans this book is a great read, however for people who tune in to the weekly satire online (or in print), this is simply a rehash of many old highlights. A great buy for a present or indoctrination to the Onion, but for long-time readers there is no new material, nothing like Our Dumb Century. Besides, you can get the whole thing just be reading the archives on theonion.com web site!

The Onion delivers a new book and not a moment too soon. I hadn't had a good, long, debilitating laugh in a few weeks and this collection of the Onion's finest work cured me in seconds.

This collection features the Onion's typical incisive and warped stories (my favorite being the one on Russia's hottest game show, "Who Wants to Eat a Meal?") and also pieces by some of their finest columnists, including the Love Man himself, Smoove B.

So I heartily recommend the book, unless you don't like tearing rib cartilage from laughing too hard.

More pictures that War and Peace! More words than The Lorax! More humour than Mein Kampf!

If you already have a cupboard full of print-outs from the Onion's web-site (like I do) order this book right now.

I bought Our Dumb Century and read it from cover to cover over a period of about 3 weeks. Normally a book that size would take me a couple of hours, but the cramps and tears from laughing too hard slowed me down.

Virtually everyone I show ODC to needs to have a copy for themselves. I predict this new book will go the same way.

Hey, it's the Onion. I laughed all day. This is incredibly funny.

As an avid reader of The Onion, I found this book, a repackaging of old articles from the Onion, nothing special. A much larger, and much better, archive of old articles can be found by going to the website.

The only purpose of this book is to provide a quick follow-up on the heels of the highly successful "Our Dumb Century". However, where "Our Dumb Century" was tremendously thought out and very well executed satire, this slapdash affair of seemingly randomly chosen past articles is best left out of your bookcase. I was lured in by the possibilities of a new book by The Onion. You, however, need not make the same mistake. When satirists become the very same money-hungry media moguls they were put on earth to poke fun at, you can be pretty sure their humor is going to come out pretty stale.

This book is good for anybody who does not have access to a computer but enjoys ripping satire. I have no idea who those people would be but, if you are reading this, you are obviously not one of them. I recommend going to a bookstore, picking it off the shelf and paging through it. It won't take long to read the articles you enjoy. However, the chapter introductions by T. Herman Zweiber aside, you've read it all before.

If you have not read "The Onion" parody newspaper, then this is the perfect introduction. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard.(possibly when I read "Our Dumb Century" the first book in this series) The perfect gift for anyone who definately does not practice political correctness.

Don't be fooled by other imitators! I had never heard of TheOnion until someone turned me onto the Onion two months ago. I'mhooked and bought "Our Dumb Century" and just got my copy of "Finest News." Funnier than anything out there! Smarter than you think!

If You like to laugh then I recomend you pick up this book right now, Funnier Than "Our Dumb Century", the first book put by the Onion. With Articles Like "Special Olympics Fixed" and "Amish Give Up", this may be the funniest book you will ever Read

If you've read Our Dumb Century, you probably will be disappointed by this book if you're looking for something similar. Instead of being filled with funny parodies of historical events and attitudes, this book a lot of mindless "filler" (for example, an article titled "Me like being battery!" written by a 9-volt battery on how much it loves to deliver power!) I would look at a copy before buying to make sure that this is what you really want (and, if you haven't bought Our Dumb Century, why don't you?)