Amazing and hilarious! BUY IT!
588045
So, yes. I read this book in a day. It was just THAT. DANG. FUNNY. What should one expect from The Bloggess and author of such books as "Squirrel-Based Facts for the Intellectually Elite. Volume 2: The Elusive Aqua Squirrel"? Nothing except amazingness, and this book is chock-full of it.

This book is "intellectually challenging and chronologically surreal. Like if Memento was a book. About dead dogs and vaginas and puppets made of squirrel corpses." In her own words, there's not much more you can do but be amazed by how she turns the most macabre situations into a story so hilarious that your cheeks hurt from laughing. My only complaint is that when I'm laughing THAT HARD I can't hold the book still enough to finish the story. It's really that funny.

If you're not already reading Jenny Lawson's blog where she refers to herself as "The Bloggess", you should start. Like, yesterday. She makes the world a better place simply by existing and writing about it.

Read the book, you can thank me later.
1369003
I've never read a comic so hilarious. It was by chance that I stumbled upon this book on the internet, and for the heck of it decided to spend what ever money I had in the bank to get it. Thanks to Surfin' The Highway, I am now a huge fan of the world of Sam & Max! Most funny pages have to go through a page or two to get to the punch line, but Sam & Max has a gut busting, seizure inducing laugh on almost ever panel. All Sam & Max need is just one moment to deliver a smart-assed remark that'll leave you in stitches. Not only that, but this book also got me over my fear of cops! I swear there has to be some cosmic shift in between the real world and cartoon world, because Max has to be my long lost twin brother!
4243084
I rented this at the library.  Tim Dowling / this book is HILARIOUS!  I was chuckling, snickering, and laughing throughout the book.  My daughter thought I was losing it.  Dowling just has a way with words.  Hes lived in England half of his life (the 2nd half), so he speaks/writes a lot like a Brit.  Which can seem somewhat pretentious since hes an American, but I guess if you live in another country long enough, you pick up some of their sentence structure, and of course, phrases.  He has a very good vocabulary (had to look up a couple of words), and the way he puts words together in what hes confessing is just hilarious to me.  Or maybe its only funny to me because Ive been married too long

He proclaims its not a self-help book, though there is a lot of wisdom in it.  E.g. The Seven Ways In Which You Might Be Wrong:  (The Wrongness of):
1. Omission
2. Not Listening
3. Forgetting Your Original Purpose [argument point]
4. Underestimating Your Partners Emotional Investment in the Issue
5. Making It All About You
6. Offering an Ultimatum
7. Being a Bit of a Cock

Some examples of his writing:

Chapter 2  Are You Compatible?
Most relationships are themselves just a very slow way of discovering that you are incompatible.  Or the other person may come to believe that you are incompatible, while you still think you're both perfectly compatible.  That, of course, it the worst sort of incompatibility.

Chapter 4  How to Be Wrong
Take a moment to cast your eyes round my domain: this blasted promontory, wracked by foul winds, devoid of life, of cheer, of comfort.  This is my special place  my fortress of solitude.  Ive been coming here on and off for the last twenty years.  Welcome, my friend, to the moral high ground.

Chapter 8  The Forty Guiding Principles of Gross Marital Happiness
24. Remember:  marriage isn't all good.  Like anything ultimately beneficial, marriage has some unwanted side effects.  It can leave participants feeling hemmed in, held back, and harried. []  You will be happier once you understand that this works both ways.  When you're feeling resentment, for example, it helps to bear in mind that you are also, at some level, resented.

28. Own your stupidity.  Self-awareness is a reliably endearing trait, and over time your spouse will come to admire your willingness to recognize precisely when you have been/are being an idiot.  In fact an objective grasp of your own stupidity is almost preferable to not being stupid in the first place, and its much, much easier.

Dowlings writing makes me want to go find and read his other books.  Im going to try to get my husband to read this book.  Hes resistant  he thinks I want him to learn something from it, but really, I just think its a funny read.  (OK, yes, I secretly hope he learns SOMEthing from it!)
4084854
One of the funniest books I've ever read!
I loved this. The thing is, it's one of the few books I've read that I will go back and read again.
The beauty of it is that you can pick it up and have a giggle, or a full on guffaw, then just move on after five minutes. But it will stick in your head, causing smiles throughout the day ahead.
The subject matter is portrayed in such a way that I both laughed and cried with the author, but to be honest,  the tears were of laughter. It's clear that Candace is an amazing person. That she can put up with her condition and turn it into a book to make people laugh along speaks volumes.
Please, please, do yourself a favour and read this. Your life will be better for it, I assure you!
2457093
Got this book and it was outrageously funny! I would recommend this book to everyone.
1932839
Love the movie! It's so frick'in hilarious! And this dvd is awesome! It's got like a buttload of special features!
What the crap are doing go buy this right now! Gosh!
1805745
This book is AWESOME!  You will be laughing out loud over and over again. I didn't want it to end!  Sonja has a way of telling her story in the most hilarious fashion... and it is a very interesting story!  I had trouble putting the book down and I couldn't wait until I had free time to pick it up again!  She is a truly talented comedic writer.  I can't wait until the next one!
4791964
It is hilarious!  Well worth the money!  About the author is a real treasure!
3091910
First: buy this book. Go ahead, scroll up and buy it, then finish reading this review. I'll wait.

This book is funny. It's stay-up-late-giggling-quietly funny. It's laugh-out-loud-on-public-transport funny. To the good humor add Pratchett-like footnotes, which you should definitely read, and Butcher-like loveable characters.

You will enjoy it, I promise.
4907134
I read this book when it was first published and laughed my head-off.  I purchased this book for my book snob friends (and my extremely finicky brother)and they all laughed until the tears poured.  I just reread the book to see how it ages and it is still one of the funniest pieces of pulp to ever grace these hands.  Just release your mind, suspend your sense of reality and let go for a few hours with this book. It will make everything going on in your life seem so normal and serene.

One word of caution - empty your bladder before you begin the adventure!!
1170133
I absolutely love this book!!! It had me laughing non-stop!! This book definitely had a lot of new material that I had never seen. That was a huge plus, but I would have still laughed if I had read it before!(only say this for the trolls who said the first one had old material...ha!) I would recommend this book to everyone I know not only because she is hilarious, but sometimes it's good to know you aren't alone(not me though don't have kids). If you want a laugh, tired of your rugrats, or just want to feel like you aren't alone READ THIS BOOK! =) Even though I don't have kids, I can appreciate all the funny stories, and know that if I feel like I've made a mistake it's okay. Someone else has made that mistake too.

It's nice to see someone who shoots straight, aka tells you how it is, and what to look forward to/dread when you become a parent. This makes a perfect gift for any mom! If you enjoy a little name calling and funny cursing, why haven't you bought it? You'll be laughing your socks off in no time!

MM(secret spy)
1634255
Too funny!  One of the best laugh out reads ever!  My family asked why I was laughing so often and so hard while reading this book!  They all had to read it and enjoyed it as much as I did!
585171
This book is seriously hilarious! You cannot read it without laughing! It is very well made and makes for a great gift! No matter who you give it too, I guarantee they would love it! Five stars for sure!
4200467
Oh my gosh read this out loud, read it to your kids, read it yourself, tell a friend, this book is laugh out loud hilarous!
2240373
This book is hilarious. We belly laughed the first few times we read it and still do when it gets picked as a nightly read. Buy it, you won't regret it!
2532812
If you love to laugh, then -- boy -- do I have a book for you! WILL@EPICQWEST.COM is quite simply one of the most hilarious novels (er, excuse me, "memoirs") I've read in a long time. The back cover mentions Candide and Dr. Stangelove, but the Marx Brothers and Monty Python's Flying Circus also come to mind. This is top-flight satire that's freewheeling and wild -- not to mention, incredibly smart. WILL@EPICQWEST.COM is written in the form of website entries (like an online diary); the website is of course the book's title (which, if you do a web search on WILL@EPICQWEST.COM is also an actual website). The "epic" adventures of the perennial screw-up/protagonist "Will" -- an "over-medicated" college freshman -- involves a hallucinatory "quest" to slay an evil scientist responsible for the creation of a deadly virus called IS ("Information Sickness"), a virus that kills anyone it comes in contact with via a kind of information overload...kind of like what one experiences on the "misinformation superhighway" of the internet (50 million websites and not a single straight answer to anything). Like a junior Don Quixote (perhaps no less self-deluded), hapless Will sets off with a sidekick, his self-aware, chatterbox laptop named "Spunk," who serves a guide and mentor one moment and foil and comic relief the next. Problem is: does the virus IS -- and the evil scientist -- even exist? Or is all this -- these extraordinary misadventures -- simply a side effect of the massive Prozac dosage our hero has been prescribed? Chapters open within chapters, like trapdoors, and the hero proceeds on his adventure often with the self-consciousness of a dreamer who is fully aware he is in a dream: nothing is real, while all seeming somehow hyper real. This self-awareness parodies post-post modern fiction or what's often called "meta-fiction:" but for me it's just unpredictably hilarious and zany. Truly this is one of best-informed, most witty novels I've read in a very long time. And the glowing praise for this book by authors like Tim O'Brien, Dennis Johnson, and Thom Jones -- as well as its underground reputation -- doesn't surprise me at all. A comic tour de force! Don't miss out!
741394
I absolutely fell in love with this book, it was so funny, like lol funny! This story was just a hands down fun time! Was it quick, yes. But the question is does it fulfill? YES it does! This is a buy it now w/ 1 click that will not disappoint!