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I Am America (and So Can You!) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephen Colbert
Publisher: Little, Brown Children
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 146332
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
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Edition: Abridged
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 1600240364
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.602
EAN: 9781602522282
ASIN: 1600240364
Publication Date: October 9, 2007
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Colbert Continues to Command August 19, 2008
Graceann Macleod (London, UK)
As long as Stephen Colbert has been performing, he's been writing. This is a brilliant man in full command of a comedic sensibility that has been delighting me for many years. When I discovered that a book would be released written in the tone of the right-wing blow-hard character that he has created for The Colbert Report, I was thrilled. When I finally got my hands on a copy (not easy to do at first, since I live in the UK), I was not disappointed in the least.
Colbert loses none of the bombastic style of his alter ego, and the observations made are riotously funny. The section where he describes all one needs to know to have a college education is perfection. I also loved his chapter on the dominance over animals (love to Gipper!)
I have heard from many, many people that Stephen Colbert, in real life, is a mild-mannered, kind man who is polite and decent. To read the rants of the egomaniacal jerk he's created to lampoon the screaming heads on television (whoever yells the loudest wins, apparently) is a bit surreal, but never unsatisfying.
I look eagerly forward to more from Stephen Colbert, in whatever media he uses to share it. No matter how I get to experience his humor, I know I'll be in for a treat.
Please Rise For The Singing Of The Colbert National Anthem August 8, 2008
Steven Stewart (steveo.stewart@hotmail.co.uk)
I have only recently become a fan of Stephen Colbert after accidentally coming across the Colbert Report (pronounced "Repore") by him anyway. From that very first accidental episode, I fell in love with his work and his satirical representation of the typical American and their look on life. That episode happened to advertise this book, and I bought it to see if the satirical personality of Colbert could come across just as well on paper. I needn't have worried as the right wing Republican character of Colbert came off, at times, better than his TV personality.
In this book, which he openly admits he didn't write but dictated himself, he gives us his honest and at times controversial opinions on a number of aspects of life.
The family
Old people
Animals
Religion
Sports
Sex and dating
Homosexuals
Higher education
Hollywood
The media
Class war
Race
Immigrants
Science
They are the truth, the Stephen Colbert truth. The only better truth is the word of God so you better accept the second best truth of Colbert. "Racism no longer exists in America" one of Colbert's many truths, if you can't handle it, then you better go live somewhere else.
All joking aside, if you're a serious reader, then this book isn't for you. It has to be read one small part at a time as if you do read for any real length of time, then the text will become predictable. If you read it as if you're watching the Report (remember the T is silent) I found it came across much funnier than if you were just reading as you would any other book. That being said, it's still an awesome read and is something that can only really be appreciated by fans of the show.
 Funny and Clever; plus it has stickers and a bookmark! April 15, 2008
Norma Lehmeierhartie (New York, USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Stephen Colbert was hilarious at the breakfast talk at BEA in June this year and I couldn't wait to read his book.
14 writers wrote this book. It is good, but I gave it only 4 stars because at times it was a bit predictable. (Too many brains and hands creating it?)
This is not a book to bring on as solo reading for a long plane ride. It is written in sound bites and a long read would get quite boring. Instead, it is a book meant to be read a page or two at a time. This way, the humor and cleverness can be appreciated, the side comments (in red) savored.
Honestly, this book belongs in your bathroom! My copy will go there and I will enjoy it over a long period of time. A page or two of extremely tight and clever sound bites and I have my "shot" of great humor for the day.
Finally, the seal on the book really threw me. How could Colbert have managed an award for first edition? Well, the award is an "inside" job and he's kind enough to include a page of them to decorate other books in your library! Hilarious and absolutely original!
Author of award winning book, Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet
Outrageous, very funny, and outrageous. In that order. March 29, 2008
AquaViola (Nottingham)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Daily Show with John Stewart has proven to be the making of many a good American comedian. One of the greatest of these is Stephen Colbert.
Having left the Daily Show in 2005, and as well as participating in many films, the actor Stephen Colbert (with the last `t' pronounced) started a television programme called the Colbert Report (pronounced with silent last `t's). In this show, which is available on the Internet and also on a Region 1 DVD, Stephen Colbert plays a Republican - not just any Republican, but someone who is more to the right than the current president. He frequently asks guests of any political persuasion "President Bush: a great president, or the greatest president?"
And now his book is arriving on British shores, heaven help us all. A video of him promoting this book is on the Amazon.com (American) website (under "I am America (and so can you)").
This book, which took slightly more time than a 2-day weekend to dictate, is full of Stephen Colbert's Truth. And his Truth is not something that you can check with facts from an encyclopaedia, because very often the Encyclopaedia will be wrong - and I know that, because it doesn't have the same "facts" as Stephen Colbert's Truth. Nor, Stephen Colbert checks his Truth with his heart and with his gut; and his Truth is always right by that measurement.
In this book, Stephen Colbert gives you the Truth that you need to have, helpfully arranged under the following topics:
Introduction (an important section. Also includes instructions on how to read the book; without that, you won't get very far in this book.)
The family
Old people
Animals
Religion
Sports
Sex and dating
Homosexuals
Higher education
Hollywood
The media
Class war
Race
Immigrants
Science
A note to the future
Finally, once you have absorbed all of Stephen Colbert's truth, only then will you be able to read the Appendix, the speech which Stephen Colbert made in front of the President of the United States in 2006. The President has not recovered since.
Casual passers-by will flick through the book, and come across phrases such as "racism no longer exists in America", and walk away, open-mouthed. They have just seen Stephen Colbert's truth. Can you handle the Truth?
TV-show in a book March 29, 2008
Wilgerboom (Nottingham, UK)
This book is fantastic. A great easy read that feels very much like watching TV. The book is really well written. I would have placed the religion chapter elsewhere though, some of my friends were so upset by that chapter that they stopped reading, so if you are a sensitive reader, skip the chapter on religion. The chapter on science is classic.
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