I Only Flunk My Brightest Students: stories from school and real life (Paperback)

~ (Author), Roseliny D. Genao (Editor), Carina Ruotolo (Designer)

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"Readers should wear diapers and rubber pants, because this book is so funny you're gonna pee in your pants. --Larry, friend since 1974

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"I never knew my uncle was suspected of being a drug dealer and running a whorehouse while in college, that he had a 15-year-old girlfriend when he was 21, that he nearly killed himself in a school science experiment, that he didn't know how to wear a jock- strap, that he was the last male date for a woman before she tried being a lesbian, or that his art professor boosted his grade to keep him from blabbing about the professor groping him during a three-way. It will be tough to beat his record."

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Product Details

• Paperback: 308 pages
• Publisher: Silver Sands Books (December 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 098166170X
• ISBN-13: 978-0981661704
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #450,099 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Remember, he only guarantees that it's 80% true., December 16, 2008

By	Marilyn Marcus "Marilyn" (CT) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'm the author's wife. There's probably a lot about me in the book, but I'm not really sure. Michael would not let me read the book before it was published because he was afraid that I'd want him to change what he said about me.

If you read the book and find bad things about me, please don't believe everything. We've been married for 37 years, and Michael would not have stayed with me if I was as bad as he probably said I am.

However, if he said nice things about me, it's OK to believe them.

If he said I don't like to cook, that part is true.

If he said I have trouble making up mind, that's true, too; but sometimes Michael has the same problem.

If he said I'm late when we have to go places, it's because I take better baths than he does.

If he told you why he picked me to marry instead of two other women he was considering, he may not have given the real reason. I hope not.

Someday I may write my own book to get even with him.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Move over Bill Bryson, May 22, 2009

By	Theodore F. Foti, Jr. "fotzzz" (Baltimore) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you have read Bill Bryson's homage to the 50's - The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - you have to read Marcus' work. This book brings you into the 60's and beyond. This is what life was really like - just about totally nuts. Parents were still naive, teachers were generally asleep at the chalkboard, school administrations were emotionally unequipped to deal with "those hoodlums." And sex, well, there wasn't any. At least most of us weren't getting any but you wouldn't know that to listen to us. Do yourself a big favor and read this book - Marcus has captured the essence of reality in his vignettes of life.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Not Exactly "The Namesake", April 12, 2009

By	Dr. Michael A. Marcus (WEST HARTFORD, CT United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I share the same name, hometown, and schools attended by the author of this hilarious tome, yet I have never met him in real life. I thought that I was funny, until I read some of his finely-crafted memory vignettes from back in the day. These tales will have universal appeal to any boomer who would like to be stimulated to think about their early years with something other than regret. Only a few years in age separate us, so like some of the other reviewers I can visualize many of the people and places that Michael writes about but I don't think this (questionable) privilege will matter at all to readers distant in time and space from where we (allegedly) grew up. Michael has a way with words, to be sure, and much of what he has to say might just sneak up and bite you where it hurts/heals and makes you laugh the most. You will get more than twenty bucks worth of laughs, so enjoy!