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"[The Great Indoors is] the most consistently funny column in Cleveland . . . maybe even America"

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Certain classic elements make a humor column irresistible. Workplace humiliation, weird food, rotten vacations, cats getting rubdowns, sex machines, raging self-delusion, enraged babies, at-risk squirrels, and of course pitiful date fantasies with Madonna and Katarina WittÑpure catnip to the modern reader. At least, that is, if you judge by the regular readers of Eric BroderÕs "The Great Indoors" newspaper column.

Since 1987, Eric Broder has been captivating and even astonishing readers of ClevelandÕs alternative weeklies (the Free Times and the Edition) with just such intimate and rarely believable details from his own remarkable life.

And he has done it with remarkable style. In fact, BroderÕs writing style has been said to recall an unholy combination of Dave Barry, Barry White, Dr. Laura, Super Joe Charboneau, Walt Disney, and former Pittsburgh Steeler linebacker Jack Lambert.

This book, which collects the very best of BroderÕs columns from the period 1987Ð1996, is a treasure sure to be cherished throughout the first years of the next millennium. Or at least to be left in the bathroom until it gets too mildewed to pick up. Either way, it will change your life.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   3 of 5 people found the following review helpful: The funniest columnist in Cleveland, April 11, 2001 By  Shannon Okey "knitgrrl.com" (Cleveland, OH USA) - See all my reviews    First of all, I am not related to nor do I personally know Eric Broder...but he is wicked funny and he causes me to run to the newspaper rack each week to read his column. Rants about small animals, his celebrity garden at the Home and Garden show, potato chips...plus some faux "60 Minutes" fantasies to boot? Pure comedic genius. By the way - I met someone who used to work with him at a bookstore many years ago - she reports he's ALWAYS been like this, it's not just a front.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   2 of 8 people found the following review helpful: This is our Common Human Experience, February 24, 2000 By  Peter M Roche (US) - See all my reviews A very amusing and easy read, Broder's "Great Indoors" is simply a must have of anyone who has followed the man's weekly column in the Cleveland Free Times (or the old Cleveland Edition). It's a veritable autobiography of an indoor intellectual in serial form, and myriad points of cosmic import are established. You'll read, and will doubtlessly recognize yourself somewhere in Broder's tales of tribulation and triumph set here in the wondrous urban armpit of our Great Nation, Cleveland. The best part is that these columns are presented chronologically, and in bite-size readings. So you can put it down whenever you like. Read a couple bits on the bus. Peruse a few more nuggets while making your evening toilet. You'll come to realize that you aren't the only one who does silly and stupid things when left alone in the confines of one's domicile. This stuff is funny, and the author is to be lauded profusely.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you?