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Title details for Why We Suck by Denis Leary - Available

Why We Suck

A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid

by Denis Leary
Denis Leary
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“Denis Leary snarls as naturally as most actors smile,” says one critic of the writer and comic. In Why We Suck, Leary snarls to brilliant effect. With his patented highspeed ranting and killer comic instinct, Denis Leary has become a beloved antihero whose bracing invective and outrageous riffs have earned him a huge following.

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  • Release date

    November 18, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781101929643
      • File size: 138243 KB
      • Duration: 04:48:00

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Actor, comedian, author Denis Leary has always embodied an "Emperor's New Clothes" mentality, calling out the culture at large, exposing the hypocrisy within. Leary often makes his point with rough-hewn language, and WHY WE SUCK is no exception. Thankfully, it's read by the author himself, perhaps the only person who could do justice to its mocking tone and righteous angst. No mere foul-mouthed diatribe, this book is a smart commentary on a flatulent, self-indulgent society. So striking is its acumen that it almost earns Leary his "doctor" title--which, truth told, stems from an honorary doctorate he received years ago. His staccato delivery, redolent of his working-class Irish-American background--which he recollects with loving sympathy--is the perfect vehicle to pull the cloak off the prevailing cultural and political dogma. J.S.H. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 15, 2008
      According to Leary, his first book is not for the faint of heart, by which he means Americans: “I am here to debunk and declassify and otherwise hold up a brutally honest mirror to our fat, ugly, lazy American selves.” Now, a good many comedians make a career out of daring to speak the ugly, gasping truths that few others would. Leary brings a particularly acid-tinged tone to his rantings about annoying children, why cats are satanic spawn, what an ugly racket the Catholic Church is and (more surprisingly) why he loves Oprah
      . The book will most likely appeal to fans of Leary, and while the material might have been better delivered as a live performance (some of these hate-laced monologues are just begging to be read aloud), Leary himself wildly entertains.

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