Book #22 Completed! "Things I have Learned From Women Who Have Dumped Me" edited by Ben Karlin

So really is the cover of the book a picture of a penguin? Well no of course not! In preparing for this critique I realized that the cover of the book had an obvious picture of an adult toy on it so I figured I would make a substitution for the sake of all my young readers (like "none" I am sure but I still am thoughtful). But why a penguin? Well, a couple of reasons:

• They are damn good eats! Kind of like Kobe beef but they taste like chicken
• I always wanted one as a pet. I mean really, you would have to turn people away from being your friend if you had a penguin for a pet because everyone would want to be sociable with you
• I had a teacher in 10th grade (Mr. Dust) who was a cooky kind of fellow that I liked a lot and whenever he had to draw something on the board, it was a penguin because that was all he knew how to draw. This made teaching Honors US History a challenge but he did well at it (plus he did not linger on the stupid Revolutionary War)
• Oh and I think those penguins from the cartoon movie "Madagascar" are awesome. So much so they make up for David Schwimmer being a voice actor in the movie

Anyway, enjoy the penguin.

I was drawn to this book because I think it is a marvelous concept. A boy can really learn a lot from the s**t he did wrong in past relationships and apply that knowledge to the future (for good or evil depending on your mood). It is a collection of short stories written by comedians about how they train wrecked their previous relationships and the lessons learned from them. Some of the authors are Andy Richter from the Conan O'Brien show, Another Andy guy from SNL, Steven Colbert (who has the one of the funniest letters in the whole book btw and I have never even seen his show), and some other people that I probably should know but don't. A lot has to do with the lessons the guys learned after they got dumped in either the areas of why they got dumped and what they should have done to avoid that or how they dealt with getting kicked to the curb. I can't say that I learned anything but it was funny and that's I guess a good thing???

I don't know - I really don't have much more to say about this one or about penguins so I guess we should do a review now huh?

"Vroom, Vroom, Vroom, Vro (3 1/2 out of 5 "Vroom's" on the motorcycle scale of awesomeness)