Review: The rants
Editorial Review - Kirkus ReviewsTalk show host Miller (as in HBO's Dennis Miller Live) reconnoiters the sorry state of the nation with a gathering of raving, raging monologues. ""Now,"" he usually starts, ""I don't want to get off on a rant here,"" whereupon the sage of cable TV walks the walk and talks the talk. Commenting on current events, Miller is a latter-day Will Rogers on speed. He's hot. He's cool. He's truly hip as he steers a course between laughs and logic. The editorial fustian covers everything from infomercials to schadenfreude, activism to parenthood, with a nod, inevitably, to the O.J. trial. He knows about men and women. ""Women don't like guys who are dangerous,"" he instructs. ""Women want us to think that because women are trying to kill us."" There are references to multitudes who have achieved a few moments of fame and are scratching for the rest of their allotted 15 minutes. (Who will be able to identify Gary Busey, Dave Del Dotto, or Rico Suave a year from now? Who can identify them now?) The rap doesn't eschew all of the Seven Dirty Words, either, but, hey, ""it's a madhouse out there,"" says Miller. He feels ""like Heston waking up in the field and seeing the chimp on top of the pony."" So don't expect Leno or Letterman (though there is an occasional decalogue not unlike a Letterman list). In Miller's Manichaean view everything is either Good or, more likely, Bad, and all is painted either black or blue. But as he admits in his standard tag line, ""that's just my opinion. I could be wrong."" Much of the mockery is ephemeral hipster babble at a fever pitch, but there's also common sense and, okay, even a nugget of wisdom in what could be, if one stretches the point, a kind of self-helper for those simpletons whom Miller calls ""mooks.
Review: The Rants
User Review - GoodreadsFunny, but less like a book and more like a script for a stand-up routine.
Review: The Rants
User Review - Austin - GoodreadsBooks by comedians are always a guessing game. Are they going to be funny? Insightful? Inspiring? For probably 95% of the books by a stand-up comedian that are published, they are usually just funny ... Read full review
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User Review - SmarterLilac - GoodreadsTaking a deep breath to write this review, deep breath... I actually used to love Dennis Miller. In his own small way, he was the genesis of my political awakening circa the 1992 presidential election ... Read full review
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User Review - Charlotte - GoodreadsI listened to this book on tape and found it to be a nostaligic trip through the 90's. He uses words like Beeper and Clinton like we now use Iphone and Obama. Read full review
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User Review - Barbara - GoodreadsI enjoy watching Dennis Miller's rants more than reading them. I still got some laught out loud moments. Read full review
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User Review - Kacie - GoodreadsI was always a big fan of Dennis Miller's show and looked forward to the rant every week. I still laughed reading through all of these but was a bit disappointed to find that they were all rants he had done on the show - nothing new. Read full review
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User Review - GoodreadsHuge Dennis Miller fan both when he was a liberal and now as a conservative. Spoiler he was a liberal when he wrote this.
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User Review - GoodreadsI loved Dennis Miller. He was one of my favorite comedians. Then he became an all but paid for spokesman for the GOP and he was more sad than funny. I'm not bashing the Republicans, as I can't stand ...
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User Review - Troy - GoodreadsPre-GOP Dennis Miller is pretty hard to beat. Read full review
