Napalm & Silly Putty Paperback – 10 April 2002

Bought as a gift for my husband and he loved it. Great price & arrived on time. George Carlin, did not use all his works in his stand up routines and I think anyone, who loves George, as much as my husband and I do ...ya gotta have it! Definitely reccomend. THANKS for the great service.

A must for ANY George Carlin fan or anyone looking for alternative and stimulating points of view. A truly hilarious read.

George Carlin treats us again to a collection of rants, jokes, one-liners and his vision on the world we live in. Often witty and clever, he delivers word play like no other. It's a proud sequel to Brain Droppings and, as usual, a very entertaining read.If you like Carlin's humour, this book is for you. It's also not necessary to have read his previous books to enjoy this one.

It is hillarious!!!

Someone you love or hate.

I compulsively bought this after discovering audio (read by the comic himself) on Youtube about the idiocies of pretentious, fake and often irritatingly and grammatically wrong language by his fellow Americans (I am not knocking Americans with a broad brush, as the best US radio people master language as if were sharpened with a verbal whetstone*).I am predictively giving five stars to this book, as I've already read, albeit in an oscillatory medium, and yes that counts. Unless he succumbed to a bit of brain rot since the previous book (by which I gauge this review) this is a damned colonic of anti-bullshit, cunning wit. He's not the first to do so, but Mr.Carlin is speaking in the voice of someone I would wish to be - hopefully before the Autumn of life.I bought this rather than the other books, but it was only a glitch of my geography (no postage to the cold wastes of the North in which I live) stopping it from reaching me. Had I a more steady flow of money, I would buy them all and give them to my pretention-affected peers, which is everyone.Yes, this is a bla blah I'm so erudite review, but I'm a Youtube video speaker person who doesn't usually get more than seconds to plan his next turn of phrase (speaking of myself in the 3rd person, dammit, another Carlin rule broken. I so need this book).* Yes, this is a very up-my-own backside metaphor, but something to look back on once I've taken the Carlin medication. Sorry, medicine :)

Well, here's the thing. It's not 1970s any more, and if you swear a lot on stage or in print, it doesn't make you a convention-defying transgressing maverick. It means just that: you swear a lot. Don't get me wrong, one can swear as much as they please for all I know, but the subject matters as well. I've watched quite a few of Carlin's HBO shows and it seems like he grew quite a few sharp teeth lately - for instance, I've found his... uhm... critical discourse on religion laugh-out-loudly funny - but the book misses it big time. Some children ain't gonna make it in life and some look ugly? Duh. Old people drive annoyingly slowly? Yawn. From the title and the preface you'd expect a more politically and socially loaded content - yeah, humanity invented both napalm and silly putty, so shall we dig deeper as to why? Nah. Not bothered, it seems. Instead you get a load of dated tea-and-toilets jokes completely missing the point of being even remotely funny.Even more annoyingly, a lot of the chapters are a verbatim transcript of the bits from the show, so you've heard it all (don't know, maybe all of them are - I can't claim I've seen every show). Witty and intelligent? Neither, really: you could cut straightforwardness with a knife. Just very, very basic.