I know that of late I've been remiss in my responsibilities to the one
or two people who actually care what I have to say about politics and
social issues. I'm in the middle of collaborating with a British
novelist on a thriller and this was the other reason.
At the
beginning of the week, I'd published on Create Space and Kindle a
satirical dictionary I'd intermittently written during the 90's. The Misanthrope's Manual
weighs in at a tidy 122 pages for the Create Space edition and when it
clears in the next day or so, you can order it at cost for $2.31. The Kindle version
is priced at $2.99. With about 500 definitions (including some new ones
acknowledging the digital age and Occupy Wall Street), that comes out
to more or less a half a penny per laugh, which sounds like a helluva
deal to me.
In case you didn't click on the links for yesterday's post (my interview with my friend and co-author Nick Stephenson), a generous sample of the Misanthrope's Manual can be found here. You can also go to the Kindle page and download most of the "A" words
onto your Kindle and decide for yourself if a ha' penny a laugh is worth
it.
These really are some of the most vicious and ingenious
definitions written in over a century and is well worth your time to at
least check out. Here's the blurb I'd written for the product page when
it finally goes live:
Several
hundred of the world's most vicious definitions, the most vitriolic in
the 102 years since the last edition of THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY published
by Ambrose Bierce, updated for a more modern 21st century readership.
Samples:
Doom, n- The infinitely patient beneficiary of all human endeavor.
Success, n- Material gain without material witnesses.
Harmless, adj- Dead.
What
you're about to hold in your hands are 122 of the most hilariously
misanthropic pages written in over a century. Don't say you weren't
forewarned.
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