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1. The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel by Mark Leyner | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(1998-09-01)
list price: US$13.00 -- used & new: US$3.91 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 067976349X Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Here's Mark, with an aside:"As I browse through this astonishing array of contraband, I can't help butmarvel at the ingenuity of the inmates. In the Body Cavity/Rectal section, forinstance--I can imagine someone smuggling in a wrapped shank ... But four 5-pieceplace settings of Bastille stainless-steel flatware? I can see how, during avisit, a girlfriend could convey, through a kiss, a condom partially filledwith heroin. But a 959-piece Alsatian Village Puzzle? How? Piece by piece, onekiss per visit per week? Imagine the incarcerated hobbyist's Zen-likeequanimity." Rich stuff, this. But as disorienting as the book may be, it possesses abrutal amount of horsepower--the amount of laughs it will induce excuse myriad indulgences. Half novel, half screenplay, packed to the endpapers with popculture, The Tetherballs of Bougainville is a full-body experience. Customer Reviews (42)
abandoned read
ADVENTURES IN HEBEPHRENIC NARRATIVE
2nd greatest book I've ever read, no...THE GREATEST The jokes actually rarely fall flat, which is amazing considering there are like 25 on every page.The book is hysterical from start to finish, the ending of the book is absolutly perfect.And leyner definalty succeeded in making it seem like I was the main charector.Forget Holden Caufield, I was Mark Leyner.
He must be on drugs...
Leyner writes a plot driven story The narrative is, as usual with Leyner, taut with jackhammer style bursts of narrative. Leyner dispenses with detail and spends his time creating vivid, drug-like situations. A execution goes wrong and the person to be executed is given a letter explaining he will be killed at a later date of the state's choosing without his knowledge, it may be while he's eating, etc. These are Mark Leyner themes. They crop up in all his work but here he manages to keep the narrative together and still deliver on the super-charged writing style that at once reads like a travel poster and a crazed rant. Read the excerpts to see if this appeals to you. Leyner has some readers that dismiss him as fast food, faux literature. You may be one of these people, or you may appreciate the style which some newer authors have taken note of or have been influenced by. Read Leyner and then read Chuck Palahniuk. Palahniuk is still a dense, fast read but seems languid compared to Leyner. Intentional or not these authors remind me of one another for their terse prose and cutural obsessions. Leyner tends to stick to seemingly lighter subjects but in fact makes the same points with the use of broader comedy and absurdism. A fun, quick read that can be enjoyed more than once. ... Read more |
2. Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?: More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour by Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg M.D. | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(2006-08-01)
list price: US$13.95 -- used & new: US$2.93 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0307345971 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description 10 Second Preview: An Excerpt Our little nipples book has sold more than a million copies internationally and spent twenty-five weeks (and counting) on the New York Times bestseller list. You have no idea how much we have loved this ride and how much we adore babbling on TV and drive-time radio, and especially in the makeup rooms where we shamelessly flirted with a succession of fantastic makeup artists at all the major networks. (By the way, Mark prefers the spray-on nozzle method, which he likens to being simonized in a car wash.) But a funny thing happened along the way. We quickly became aware of the fact that we’d barely scratched the surface. As we talked to people who’d enjoyed our first book, we began accumulating hundreds of new questions—some funny, down-to-earth, exotic, some embarrassing, some perplexing, but always thought-provoking enough that we knew we’d have to include them in a brand-new volume. We realized the gravity of the somber task ahead of us. We felt deputized. We knew we were now bound by honor and a fiduciary duty to you, our readers, to deliver unbiased, unadulterated, thoroughly researched, and unimpeachably factual answers to your questions. Humbled, but galvanized and inspired by the immense challenge that lay before us, we hunkered down in a windowless, antiseptic research cocoon, and made a solemn pledge to produce a new volume that would surpass the original and blaze new trails in the democratization of medical knowledge. Customer Reviews (45)
Very Funny
Nice "lazy time" read !
Both Books Were Great
Hilarious!!!
Entertainly funny! |
3. Let's Play Doctor: The Instant Guide to Walking, Talking, and Probing Like a Real M.D. by Mark Leyner, Billy Md Goldberg | |
Kindle Edition: 224
Pages
(2008-12-02)
list price: US$14.95 Asin: B001MYA33C Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (10)
Wacky Fun
So Hilarious!
A fun bathroom or flight book primarily "for guys"
Silly bathroom reading!
Not worth the $14.99 price |
4. Et Tu, Babe by Mark Leyner | |
Paperback:
Pages
(1992)
Asin: B002TVFCRO Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Customer Reviews (27)
Totally Pomo
Cool Stuff
Bizarre and hilarious
Hilariously Funny Babe!
Et Tu, Bah |
5. Tooth Imprints On a Corn Dog by Mark Leyner | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(1996-01-03)
list price: US$15.00 -- used & new: US$4.23 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0679745211 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (6)
Give this man back his medication "The Mary Poppins' Kidnapping" throws a nod to thepresent censoring of the media. After viewing "Mary Poppins"three teenagers kidnap an English woman so that they could have a nanny.This triggers an across the board censorship for anything from "MaryPoppins" to "The Sound Of Music" stating that it's"...irresponsible to expose young people from middle- and low-incomefamilies to films depicting ostentatious affluence." which"...has the potential for provoking very explosive antisocialbehavior." "The (Illustrated) Body Politics" exposes thatsenators have hidden tattoos that represent their true standings on issues.In "Oh, Brother", two Melendez type brothers kill their parentswith Howitzer shells, rocket-propelled grenades and 9mm Luger rounds thenplead innocent using the "imperfect self-defense" concept.Stating that since their parents were understanding, supportive, andcompassionate towards them, they didn't act like other parents and werecovering up a plot to kill them so they struck first. And that's just thetip of the iceberg. Writing like Christopher Moore with a newly acquiredthesaurus, Leyner makes you laugh, cringe, and wonder. After possibly thelongest dedication in written history the fun begins. Although he lovesusing big words don't be scared off. Bring a dictionary (optional) and anopen mind (mandatory) and enjoy.
oooooohhhhh yeah
Not Really Based On "Jokes"
Cheeky obviosities Granted, it is difficult to judgea writer by short stories, but reading this is a total waste of time and Ican only blame myself for being too thick to realise it only after I almostfinished the book. Oh, by the way, here in the UK the book has a differenttitle: "A dream date with Di". Well, a person fantasizing about adate with Princess Di does not strike one as a progressive writer, and onewho actually tries to make fun of the idea is even worse.
Hillarious comments about life. |
6. My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist: A novel by Mark Leyner | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(1993-05-10)
list price: US$11.00 -- used & new: US$1.70 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0679745793 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (27)
One of the funniest books I've ever read
hilarious
Why no love? I say "Ole`!" to this author. (That's a good thing.) And, I recommend this book to everyone I meet, pass by, or steal from.
Fizz Was I ever THAT young???? My impressions had changed radically.The book now seemed infantile to me: it is nothing more, really, than a frivolous, badly strung-together collection of verbal sound-bites.The book is superficial and hollow at its core.Now, I'm not a fan of transcendental meanings or linear narratives, but, FOR GOD'S SAKE or for the sake of WHOMEVER, even experimental fiction should have at least SOME formal consistency.The surrealists' experiments (one thinks of SOLUBLE FISH or THE MAGNETIC FIELDS) or the work of Alfred Jarry all have an internal logic.This book has none.It is completely meaningless and disjointed. In fact, the book is a mess: a hastily written, blithe little throwaway of a book. MY COUSIN, MY GASTROENTEROLOGIST is pure entertainment, nothing more.If that is all you are interested in, so be it.But if that is the case, then you must accept that there is ESSENTIALLY nothing to distinguish this book from an episode of the TV show, FRIENDS, except that the latter is probably more memorable. This book belongs on the shelf next to BLACK SPRING, a much more "illustrious" book (if only because it was reviewed by Maurice Blanchot), but also one that suffers from a similar disorder. I've given this book two stars only because to give it one would be to demean my prior self.
Not as good as his others |
7. Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex CD by Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg | |
Audio CD:
Pages
(2006-08-01)
list price: US$9.95 -- used & new: US$1.20 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0061173436 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Did the mega-bestselling Why Do Men Have Nipples? exhaust your curiosity about stuff odd, icky, kinky, noxious, libidinous, or just plain embarrassing? "No," you say? Well good, because the doctor and his able-bodied buddy are IN! Again! Now go-to authorities for that sort of thing, Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D., take on the differences between the sexes—those burning questions like, "Why Doesn't My Husband Ever Listen?" or "Why Does My Wife ALWAYS Have to Pee?" and of course, "Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?" plus plenty of others to keep you fully informed. Full of smart and snarky answers to an onslaught of new questions, all in the do-ask-we'll-tell spirit, that entertain and teach you something at the same time, Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? offers the real lowdown on all the myriad of the things that everyone wants to know about all things anatomical, medical, sexual, nutritional, animal, mineral, but would only ask a physician after a few too many. Bigger, funnier, and better than ever, Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? proves that in the battle of the sexes, as in most things, a little Q&A is a safe, effective, minimally invasive remedy. Customer Reviews (1)
It looked good on paper... |
8. American Made: New Fiction from the Fiction Collective | |
Paperback: 214
Pages
(1986-01-01)
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9. I Smell Esther Williams by Mark Leyner | |
Paperback: 208
Pages
(1995-01-31)
list price: US$12.00 -- used & new: US$2.02 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0679750452 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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There's Nothing To "Get"
A level of genius so high as to be unrecognizable as such
Not the smart satirist and absurdist he would later become
Beware
Don't get me wrong... |
10. MEGALOMACHINE by Mark Leyner | |
Paperback: 229
Pages
(2004-10-28)
-- used & new: US$53.05 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 2749102960 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
11. Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? by Mark/ Goldberg, Billy, M.D. Leyner | |
Paperback:
Pages
(2006-08-01)
Asin: B001DX6XOU Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
12. Doktor spielen: Das müssen Sie wissen, um als Mediziner durchzugehen by Mark Leyner | |
Paperback: 208
Pages
Isbn: 3442155940 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
13. I Smell Esther Williams | |
Audio Cassette:
Pages
(1996-02)
list price: US$4.99 -- used & new: US$4.45 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0787107581 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
14. A Dream Date With Di And Other Pieces by Mark Leyner | |
Paperback:
Pages
(1995)
Asin: B00451XUCU Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
15. Why Do Men Have Nipples? Page-A-Day Calendar 2009 (Original Page a Day Calendars) by Mark Leyner, M.D., Billy Goldberg | |
Calendar: 370
Pages
(2008-06-15)
list price: US$11.99 -- used & new: US$6.12 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: B001O9CHAC Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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Hilarious |
16. Biography - Leyner, Mark (1956-): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online by Gale Reference Team | |
Digital: 6
Pages
(2006-01-01)
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17. Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?: More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour [Paperback] by Mark Leyner (Author) Billy Goldberg M.D. (Author) | |
Unknown Binding:
Pages
(2006)
-- used & new: US$17.89 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: B003UGV8T8 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
18. Greyhound Diary by James Inman | |
Paperback: 79
Pages
(2006-05-17)
list price: US$9.86 -- used & new: US$9.86 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 1411649222 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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coachman
Your pretensions will fit underneath
Alcohol would make a nice companion piece.
The blue water words of an American Treasure
Night ... at the Grey Cafe ... |
19. Tooth imprints on a Corn Dog by Mark leyner | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1995-01-01)
Asin: B0023WYMWK Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
20. Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini by Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(2005-07-26)
list price: US$14.00 -- used & new: US$0.90 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 1400082315 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (250)
Disgustingly frank
White Elephant
Entertaining
Answers a lot of weird medical questions
annoying |
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