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Back in 1998, the internet was young and wild and free. Along with listservs, pornography, and listservs dedicated to pornography, there was a website that ran all its articles in the same font and within abnormally narrow margins. This site was called McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and many dozens of people read it. Now, fifteen years later, most of those readers have died, but the Tendency still exists, publishing, every day, quasi-humor writing in the same font within the same abnormally narrow margins. The site has no ads, and no revenue prospects, and thus, every year or so, we collect some of the site’s better material and attempt to trick readers into paying for a curated, glued-together version of what is available online for free. This collection is the best and most brazen of such attempts. Please enjoy it, after you have paid for it.

Featuring:

“It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers!”

“What I Would Be Thinking About if I Were Billy Joel Driving Toward a Holiday Party Where I Knew There Was Going to Be a Piano”

“I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled”

“Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition)”

“In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s

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March 4, 2014
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5.6 x 0.8 x 8.1 inches
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1938073797
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"[The Best of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency] is just like those chocolates that hotels put on pillows, if the chocolate were laced with acid." ?Michael Agger, The New Yorker

"McSweeney’s has a high level of quality on its site, so it’s no surprise that the cream of its crop is out to do more than make readers laugh. " ?A.V. Club

"The Best of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency is a great collection behind a tastefully designed cover that will compliment just about any coffee table or toilet-side book collection both in form and content." ?Nerdist

"The Best of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency ? is a riotous masterpiece." ?PopMatters

About the Author

Christopher Monks is the editor of McSweeney's Internet Tendency and the author of The Ultimate Game Guide to Your Life. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts, with his wife and sons.

John Warner has been editorially involved with McSweeney's Internet Tendency since 2003 and currently serves as editor at large. He is the author of the novel, The Funny Man, and writes a weekly column for the Chicago Tribune's Printers Row book supplement. In his spare time, he teaches at College of Charleston and lives in Mt. Pleasant, SC, with his wife Kathy.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ McSweeney's (March 4, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1938073797
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1938073793
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.6 x 0.8 x 8.1 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,443,209 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #434 in Computers & Internet Humor
- #2,985 in Humor Essays (Books)
- #8,064 in Fiction Satire

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John Warner is the author of seven books, including most recently "Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities" (Johns Hopkins UP) and "The Writer's Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing" (Penguin), which draw upon his 20 years of experience as a writer and teaching of writing.

John's first book ("My First Presidentiary: A Scrapbook of George W. Bush" co-authored with Kevin Guilfoile) was written primarily in colored pencil and turned into a Washington Post #1 best seller. Since then he’s published a parody of writing advice ("Fondling Your Muse: Infallible Advice from a Published Author to a Writerly Aspirant"), more politically minded humor ("So You Want to Be President?"), a novel ("The Funny Man"), and a collection of short stories ("Tough Day for the Army"). From 2003 to 2008 he edited McSweeney’s Internet Tendency for which he now serves as an editor at large, and writes a weekly column for the Chicago Tribune on books and reading as his alter ego, The Biblioracle. He is a contributing writer to Inside Higher Ed, and can be found on Twitter @biblioracle.

John Warner is a frequent speaker to school and college groups about issues of writing pedagogy and academic labor. You can find more information at johnwarnerwriter.com

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ltom

So funny I can't read it in bed

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 15, 2017

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On my zombie apocalypse reading list - I just bought my 3rd copy because the first two were loaned out and never returned. So funny I can't read it in bed. Love this book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 10, 2014

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Pretty great to kill some time with. As an IT guy I can relate to a lot of these and many of the stories are pretty classic.

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Cooosh

Five Stars

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Great book!

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casadivetro

Per amanti delle risate a denti stretti (e cervello fino)

Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on April 8, 2016

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Sicuramente non un libro per chi vuol farsi delle grasse risate.
L'umorismo di McSweeney è cerebrale e vagamente intellettuale, adatto a chi vuole ridere, sogghignare e riflettere al tempo stesso.

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Orito

Some stars, some poseurs.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 27, 2017

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Hit and miss. Some of this stuff is ridiculously clever and some of it is gimmicky and passé.

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