My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

~ (Author) "It's late at night but I must continue work on my new fighting technique!..." (more)
Key Phrases: fighting technique, Karate Snoopy, Normal Man, Holy Fuck (more...)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Riverhead Trade; 1 edition (October 7, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1573223735
• ISBN-13: 978-1573223737
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #746,170 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yep, My New Fighting Technique IS Unstoppable, October 31, 2003

By	"nec168" (Florida) - See all my reviews

"My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable" (MNFTIU for short) by David Rees is hilarious. I agree with the other reviewers when they said MNFTIU is senseless however that's the point of the book. It wasn't fashioned to follow the outline of a "normal" book. To understand MNFTIU, you need to know a little bit about the author and his intentions with MNFTIU.

David Rees draws clip art comics for Rolling Stones magazine, plays in a band, and works temp jobs where he finds his inspiration for his comics. MNFTIU is based on the clip arts he collected while working at a university community health department. This is where he found Karate Snoopy, Circulatory Man, and the ambulance drivers. The fixation with fighting and technique which is mentioned over and over again is from Rees' fascination with rap music. His characters are like rappers when they freestyle (rap). Rappers battle each other with the skillfulness of their words. The one with the best "fighting technique" emerges victorious.

This is a fun book to read if you do so with an open mind. If you're expecting to read it like Calvin & Hobbes or The Peanuts then you'll be disappointed. If you like South Park or even The Simpsons, there's a good chance MNFTIU will appeal to you. You can find samples of Rees' MNFTIU at http://unstoppable.com. He also has other works such as "Get Your War On" which can be viewed at http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/home.html. All the royalties from this book are donated to the Adopt a Landmine charity dedicated to landmine clearance in Afghanistan. So even if you don't like his comics, you have to appreciate his contributions.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A cultural and linguistic treasure, October 31, 2003

By	sengssk (Neue Amsterdam) - See all my reviews

If we're made extinct by a nuclear war and alien visitors a thousand years from now find a vault with books representing Earth's history and culture, My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable should represent how average Americans talked in the early 21st century. To the pointy-headed intellectuals, the book is NOT pointless, but personafies the daily struggles every individual endures to attain a goal, a dream, whether to invent a new technique, or gather up the courage to face the Circulatory System Motherf-cker. The characters approach martial arts in the most superficial and deluded way, and yet I think that's Rees' stinging indictment of our values in our artificial modern lives.

Also check out My New Filing System is Unstoppable too.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unstoppable humor, October 15, 2003

By A Customer

David Rees' blend of witty, acerbic, profane humor is brilliant - just read Get Your War on to see that his biting wit is right on and he has some funny stuff to say. Most people with a sense of humor can find the fun in this book - so many great one-liners! If you're a fan of the Onion, the Daily Show, SNL, or anything with an edge of sarcasm, you'll love this. After all, that's what it's all about. I guess the people who don't like it just don't get it.