Our Dumb World (Abridged): The Onion's Atlas of The Planet Earth, 73rd Edition Audiobook

" Easily the funniest book I've ever read. "

" This book is hillarious! If you like Jon Stewart's America, Stephen Colbert's book, and the like you will love the Onion's Atlas of the World. "

" Excellent Satire! Often hilarious. "

" Best. Encyclopedic Atlas. Ever. "

" I don't know if it's considered blasphemous to award five stars to a humor book, but in the world of humor books, the Onion people have put together a masterpiece. I read this book casually over a period of four months, and there was plenty of material to keep me occupied. Each country has enough sly comic whimsy to cover seven or eight issues of The Onion, and in many cases (like the U.S. entry) much, much more. And there are a lot of countries, it turns out. (I was never much for geography.) My favorite entry? Suriname. "

" I don't think it is possible to actually read this entire book. As always The Onion goes over the top in presentation with every little nook and cranny being filled up with hilarious stuff. This book is great as a coffee table book. I think I'd get overwhelmed if I sat down and tried to read it straight through. From wonderful comments about countries (Canada - See U.S. on pages 9-12, Ethiopia: Africa's Extended Belly) to spoofing on world politics (Now Bono Awareness Rated!) it is just a fun read especially if you have a great sense of humour. I'm moving into the read section just because I'm crazy about organization but I'll be flipping through and appreciating it for a long time. "

" Funny in many places - and often hitting a little too close to home - this is definitely an Onion book. Read this one in little bites - too much of a good thing is overkill. I especially liked the look at the regions of the U.S. (very enlightening), but my favorite entry was the one on Tonga, which editors claim to have made up entirely. "

" Simply brilliant, but I would say that. "

" LOL!! "

" In Our Dumb World, the humorists over at The Onion debase the respective fields of cartography and geography. Their work is, as always, uneven, but, at its best, this Atlas is hilarious. "

" It was funny at the beginning but as it continued it got more and more lame. Although the section on Contra was hilarious. "

" I love The Onion. Everything they come out with, I love. They're clever, and funny, and smart. Did I mention love? "

" Hahaha... I'm going to Hell. "

" My favorite country subheading, on the Canada page: "for the United States, see page 21." "

" Every page can make you laugh and learn something interesting. The writers are ingenious. "

" When satire meets reality and continues towards its insanely logical conclusion is the mark of The Onion. "

" Hilarious, witty and poignant. Sometimes goes too far, but I guess that is the point. "

" This book is hilarious to me in the spot-on insight it gives with its offensiveness. It hurts to laugh at it not because it's awful or overly mean, but because you know that every joke holds an unspoken truth. It's funny because everybody really DOES suck in their own unique way. "

" Laugh out loud funny at times, but as a whole stupid. "

" Very funny, especially on eAudio. I liked the Luxemborg section the best, but they were all good. "

" This is potentially the funniest book I have ever read. It's heavy on the rape jokes, though. The Onion writers are way, way too fond of rape jokes. "

" Riotous. Explodes every extant stereotype about every extant nation. "

" This is the funniest damn thing I've ever read. If you're anal about political correctness, it will offend you and your self-righteous constitution. "

" Roflcopter! "

" Hilarious! I read it on CD which only added to this humorous and satiric book. "

" Heh. This atlas makes me laugh almost as much as the Rand-McNally Road Atlas '05! "

" I bought this book as a gift and couldn't stop laughing as I flipped through it. Very, very funny if you like The Onion's humor. "

" Gimicky as these type books are, they always make me laugh. "

" Sure, it doesn't carry the laser-beam focus and freshness of The Onion's "Our Dumb Century" before it, but "Our Dumb World" is just as packed with genuinely hilarious jokery. "

" Hilarious! I read it on CD which only added to this humorous and satiric book. "

" In Our Dumb World, the humorists over at The Onion debase the respective fields of cartography and geography. Their work is, as always, uneven, but, at its best, this Atlas is hilarious. "

" This book is just awesome. I listened to it on cd (cus, ya know, reading hurts my brain) and it's very funny in that format. Recommended to history and geography buffs, and anyone else who knows, deep-down, that America is the Best, Fattest, Dumbest, and most Funniest nation on Earth! "

" A very funny book from some of my favorite people...Gotta love THE ONION! "

" Laugh at our ridiculous world and how truly small we all really are. "

" This is a book that will grow on you. Warning...it is totally and completely offensive. If you're cool with that, you will like this book. "

" This book is a joke that gets old fast. Every country is insulted equally. It's a dumb book. "

" “The Onion” takes on the world, literally, in this twisted geography book. Incidentally, this volume contains my very favorite “Onion” photograph, ever: The Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro with two automatic weapons clutched in his hands, gangsta-style. Awesome. "

" Hilarious. If you like the Onion, you'll like this book. And if you don't, what's wrong with you?? "

" Irreverent and hilarious. And recommended by David Sedaris. I read bits when I need a good laugh. "