I can't believe I used to take this garbage seriously. Anton Long is a joke and anybody ...
591721
I can't believe I used to take this garbage seriously. Anton Long is a joke and anybody who's anybody knows it. A fun read but you won't get anything substantial out of it.
4186993
Garbage.  Currently this 50 page book is listed for 11.99  What's worse, the author is not taking the subject seriously.  Obviously there is some gallows humor, which is fine and welcome, but the entire project falls flat.  Neither the serious parts nor the comedic parts achieve what the author intends.  Both fail.  The author seems to be trying to capture the H.P. Lovecraft, E.M. Cioran, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche kind of pessimism, but in actuality, these other authors took the subject seriously and cared deeply about depressive states, even when they were being funny.  E.M. Cioran, for instance, has an amazing sense of humor, but it's not the cheap, millennial, poser-sort-of-"play-acting" Eugene Thacker is doing.  I admire this author's other books, which really are serious and worth reading, but this work, of merely 50 pages is a total disappointment and a waste of money.
2227056
HOW did this series get such a high rating?!?! Did I read the same book? I had to put this down about halfway through, I couldn't even force myself to read any farther. It was absolutely horrible. HORRIBLE. It was so cheesy I actually laughed out loud at several parts. Their names were COMPLETELY ridiculous (example: Vishous, Rhage..etc)I don't know if that was supposed to be cool and creative, but it wasn't. And they all wore black leather pants (seriously?!) I couldn't even imagine a real person using the slang they did. To me it sounded like the author was trying really hard to make them seem "cool" but just failed miserably. If I ever heard a grown man say I "outie" while being completely serious,I would probably laugh in his face. Nothing could be farther from badass than they way these characters talk. I can't believe an adult even wrote this. It was a total joke. I'm writing this review quite a while after I read it so all the details aren't fresh in my mind, but I know there were many many reasons I couldn't stand this book.

I thought it was a waste of time and money and I wish I could get back both. It's very hard for me to hate a book this much, but Dark Lover pulled it off.
3985177
It is sad, and more than a little scary, to see how many reviews use the word "classic" to describe this roadkill of an album. To do so further reduces the word to utterly uselessness.

"Bat Out of Hell" remains what is was in 1978 -- a horrifically bad set of songs made all the worse by the bombastic and pompous production. That people still listen to this today just goes to show that no one has even gone broke underestimating the taste of the American public. If you have not had a copy of this for the past 28 years you need to think long and hard: If you have gone so long without it, why buy it now?

Overwrought and completely and utterly unlistenable, it is claptrap like this that remind us just what it was that punk was (thankfully) rebelling against in the first place.

Avoid.  For all that is good and holy in this world, AVOID!
1606218
First and foremost, I will try to make this review as unbiased as I can, but that is pretty hard considering the debacle that hopefully cost Fox as much money as possible and squelch any rumblings of a horrific sequel.

Ok, as the immortal Steve Martin said in "The Jerk," "Roll the ugliness."

Acting - Cheesy one liners from a soap opera are what come to mind.  Think Twilight mixed with all those shows you see about fake high school life and the dialogue is that.

Plot - With the will to be unbiased (DB fans needs not apply, goku got bent over and...well you know) the plot has some significant holes.  Goku, known as "Ozaru" somehow came to earth with Piccolo 2,000 years ago.  Yet he is 18 in the movie.  Goku is supposedly the slave/helper/"buddy" of Piccolo and after 2,000 years can resist him with the best of them.

Special Effects - Um, hello?  Forgive the Dane Cook moment, but I literally laughed out loud when I saw the climatic battle.  I could make better battles and effects in flash and I am horrible at flash!

I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone, much less have some poor sap shell out hard earned money for this crap.

I always try to find at least one good thing about every movie I have ever seen and believe it or not, I have one about this movie.  The good thing about this movie is that I saw a bootlegged copy and didn't have to waste any money on this horrible attempt at a dragon ball movie.  I seriously hope this is the last we hear of this particular abomination of an attempt at a live action Dragon Ball movie.  I do hope some other studio takes on the task of creating a somewhat decent recreation of the beloved by millions anime.
2105753
This is a terrible terrible pile of junk.  The arrow tip AND the fletching BOTH fell off as I opened the package.  I'm laughing right now at how absurd it is.  Yes I realize it's only $6 bucks and it's a Halloween gag but dang this thing is crap.  I'll superglue it so I can use it but I can't imagine offering something this bad to my customers.
4298067
I picked this up because it was well recommended.  That was an evil joke!  Troma took a bizarre but interesting idea and transformed in into 4 hrs (feels like it) of tape which was more interesting when it was blank.  The same dumb, predictable, overused 'gags' that you've seen too many times elsewhere are poorly repeated.  There is an attempt at characterization but it never gets past 1.5 dimensions - not flat but damn close.  Special effects are minimalistic at best.  And to top it off the video starts with an introduction about how to make independent films that omits the most important part - how to find suckers to pay for this dreck.  Pass this one up.
3717011
Was this book written as a joke or a really boring spoof??? If not, gag me with a rack of moose antlers.

I listened to this book on tape, (for 10.5 unabridged hours) and persisted only because I was stuck at work with nothing else left in my book bag and to blot out my neighbor's music which was almost as bad as this book.

Here is proof that testosterone poisoning and horrid writing can ooze through publishing turnstiles and be let loose on the unsuspecting consumer.
401625
Sorry, I just cannot take seriously this book.  Its a massive joke full of far right silliness disguised as Christianity.  Just no.
1263708
This book is in NO way, shape or form, funny. This truly does sound like it was written by an underage try-hard. If you enjoy legimitate adult jokes involving wit, relatable situations, the occasional foul language, references actually worth mentioning, and a decent sentence structure, this book is not for you. I am slightly concerned at the vast majority for finding this even the LEAST bit funny. Seriously.. it's that bad. Went directly into recycling. I feel we should apologize to the trees for this one.
2195066
I bought this thong mostly jokingly. Admittedly I intended for it to possibly be used in seduction. I can say myself that it fails at both of those uses. When I saw this thong I thought it was hilarious and would make a great joke. Boy was I wrong... that was one of my biggest embarrassments so far this year. None of my friends thought it was funny, except for maybe one person. None of my friends thought it was sexy either. They all just kind of looked at me as I endured a long pause of awkward silence and we all tried to pretend I never wore it. Don't get this. Save yourself the mockery.
1116401
First off, I should have listened to the other reviews. THEY ARE JUNK. But I thought maybe if I coated the hell out of them in silicone they wouldn't take on water. WRONG. The lens that didn't crack during the install has seriously 1/8th inch of water in the bottom. You'd think I drove thru a creek, but it hasn't rained here in days. Back in the day HELLA used to be the name in off road auxiliary lighting. Now it's just a skid mark on the underware of illumination. They sold out and slapped their name on complete garbage. I'd have been better off ordering the cheapest China junk I could find. I'd have probably saved 40 dollars. Now I'm stuck with oval holes cut in my valence and a need to spend more money in an attempt to find something that fits. I will never buy your crap products again Hella. NEVER AGAIN.
265557
Yes, the title is a lame joke and the repeated 12-step references are an insultingly stupid gag that isn't even clever the FIRST time he tries it.

Moreover, the information is often wrong. Example: when pointing out the problem of prefixes such as bi- and semi-, he gets the definition of semiannual backwards and actually teaches the reader that it means "every other year", which is wrong! And he overlooks the important fact that biennial and biannual are two different things.

There are punctuation errors in the book along with errors about punctuation.

I just had to stop reading before the book was finished. I was starting to skip a lot, especially all the attempts at humor, and I feared accidentally absorbing some of his errors.

Finally, take a look at this. The one reviewer here who "LOVED this book!!!!" and who claims to "teach a Business Writing course" says she or he "ended up using (and duely[sic] referencing) several pieces from his 12-step program." I didn't finish the book. Is "duely" a new word the author suggested instead of good old-fashioned duly?
4882353
Jesus... this is one of the worst insults the band, or now the leadsinger solo, released under the name of Queensryche. This supposed to be funny? I stopped laughing a few albums ago and this one makes me wish for knitting-needles to be inserted down my ears. Especially the newly recorded 'classics' couldn't be of less quality. No drive, no spirit ...not even half-decent vocals by the man himself who sang the originals. The magic is gone and so am I... *rolleyes*
1656437
I have never been as perplexed by a show as I have been by Lucky Louie. If you have ever seen Louis C.K. in anything, especially his stand up and his later show entitled "Louie", you will instantly know that this is the anti-thesis of his true humour. I thought this entire season was a big joke on the audience, like some kind of incredibly elaborate, insanely expensive joke to himself and his close friends. I was expecting him to eventually address the camera directly and admit this was the kind of show that he hates and that you as the audience should never, ever watch it. The low-brow, 90s-sitcom, filmed-in-front-of-a-live-audience, one liners is hard to watch. The cringe-worthiness is absolute. All I could think of while watching this show was the Ricky Gervais "Extras" series. In it, the character Ricky got his own sitcom on TV and the producers butchered his creation to the point where it became like just another "lowest-common-denominator" sitcom. Maybe that was the entire joke? Or maybe HBO actually did that to Louis' original idea? Then when it failed, FX said they would allow him to do his own show for real. Can you see my utter confusion?
4810506
After watching this show which I can't believe I did, I cancelled my Starz subscription. I can't recall any HBO show that had such an effect on me that I physically got sick in the stomach. I'm sure some people may think, wow that means the actors did a great job acting so I must watch it. Sadly that is not the issue. There are somethings in life that you can't take back after you've seen it because those images and feelings live in your mind forever. So please do yourself a favor and run like the dickens from this utterly disgusting vulgar series. Don't get fooled by the cover and the initial episodes as I was.
This series is ideal for people who were exposed to unmentionable horrors, like making other people miserable, and believe that wickedness and cruelty always prevails over good deeds/people.
4146001
I'm so glad I didn't waste perfectly good money on this garbage. The male love interest in this story is an immature, self centered, hypocritical, jerk. Don't believe me...download the sample and read some of this nonsense for yourself. I can't stand behind a character that is truely and honestly a bad person. This guy has one night stand after one night stand (rockstart lifestyle) and treats the women like trash. Is mean to them after sleeping with them. He left is highschool girlfriend and wouldn't return her calls....she was pregnant and has their son. He is talking trash about women in some sick and disturbed inner dialogue. This author needs to seek mental help because she can't possibly write something like this without thinking this is a health person to be in a relationship with. It really pisses me off that a woman can even write crap like this and think it's ok.