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| "The Boomer Bible may be the most elaborate practical joke ever
published in book form."
Wisconsin State Journal |
"I am not yet satisfied in any respect that the whole business, including
this book. . . is not simply some clever fraud being perpetrated by practical
jokers of immense arrogance."
First Preface ("Eliot Naughton") |
| "With his hipper than thou attitude, Laird seems to despise everyone
but himself, while his muddled politics, neither left nor right, seem designed
to confuse and deliberately offend readers.
Publishers Weekly |
"Make no mistake: it is well nigh impossible to think of a racist (or
otherwise ethnocentrist), religious, or sexist slur that is not enshrined
in what passes for the scriptural language of the Boomer Bible. Nor is
this the only offensive element of this work. For it would seem that the
author(s) of the Boomer Bible were resolved from the start to libel everything
they touched. . ."
First Preface ("Eliot Naughton") |
| "Not even 10 words into it, the reader is distracted by little footnote
marks that require scholarly or dedicated readers to go flipping all over
creation to find out their significance. . . Believe
me, the search isn't worth it."
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
"In all matters and all doubtful circumstances, choose the way of certainty.
The man who is certain has no need to think, and is not troubled by conscience
or the responsibility to weigh things further, or to look for concealed
relationships and dependencies and other traps which lead inevitably
to thought."
The Book of Willie, Ch. 33, v. 1-4 |
| "This tasteless parody of everything in the
20th century. . . is not only ridiculously long at 800 pages, it's impressively
empty-headed."
Vancouver Sun |
"And they will say that it's all just an exercise in bad taste
anyway, because name calling and finger pointing never solved anything,
and really only makes things worse, because it just polarizes people, and
doesn't do any good for anybody, unless you're just some punk, with an
ax to grind."
The Book of They, Ch. 6, vv. 1-7 |
| "A more boring, humorless, and in every way pointless 800 pages has
rarely been bound up for sale."
The National Review |
"And they will say that it's completely pointless anyway, to
write down the Word on the Past, or even the Word on the Present, because
everthing is really much too complicated, and if they can't figure it out,
then how could some punk, with an ax to grind?"
The Book of They, Ch. 5, vv. 1-7 |
| "The author systematically skewers all the things he claims (the baby
boom) generation holds sacred - television, Wall Street avarice, the heroes
of our nation's history and our Eurocentric cultural heritage. . .All of
these topics have been treated better before.
Publishers Weekly |
"And they will say, 'Why be so negative and divisive? And why
be so angry and simplistic? And why be so nasty and repetitious?' Because
they
already know everything they need to know about pointed sticks and
killer apes and man's inhumanity to man, and only some punk with an ax
to grind would make such a big deal out of it.
The Book of They, Ch. 3, vv. 1-5 |
| "One of the oddest, funniest, darkest, smartest and most innovative
books to come along in years."
San Francisco Chronicle |
"And practically ensures that everyone will recognize how brilliantly
you convey the sterility of modern life, and man's inhumanity to man, and
the pain and anguish of human existence, in a sad, doomed, random world."
The Book of Swarthmorons, Ch. 20, vv.17-20 |
1"We don't care what they say, at all, because they are disgusting to us, and it doesn't really matter if they still know how to read or not, or if they can understand writing that doesn't have cute scenes in it, or charming losers dancing on the brink of doom, because we're not interested in being liked, whether they like it or not. We're interested in leaving a record, for the ones who will come later, the ones who will have to start over, when they have finished rotting everything to pieces.
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