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Title: Los famosos las prefieren maduritas.(famosos con parejas de mâs edad)
Author: Pedro C. Baca
Publication: Actual (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2010
Publisher: Editorial Contenido, S.A. de C.V.
Volume: 17Issue: 196Page: 54(4)

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There is intelligent life on Earth. After millennia of lifelessness, intelligence flourishes here with an extravagance of energy that has been a constant amazement to all the members of the survey team.
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Probably not worth your dollar.
This is a very short work, and the publisher couldn't even take the time to verify their OCR scan, which contains a few typographical errors. There's not enough to the story to justify the purchase price; it's a cute, simple, and mildly enjoyable bait-and-switch story that belongs in an anthology, but should not be sold as a standalone work. ... Read more

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Do you remember Michael Douglas in 'Beetlejuice'?Did you know that Archibald Alexander Leach was one of the silver screen's most sought-after heartthrobs?Or that Ehrich Weiss was arguably the greatest escape artist of all time?How about the old comedy team of Arthur Stanley Jefferson and Norvell Hardy?

The answers to these questions and more lie inside this book.Over 600 celebrities' real names from the past and present.Names have been researched and verified.Enjoy! ... Read more

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MAKING A MONKEY OUT OF "THE MAN"

How does Bill Gates respond when you try to kiss him on the nipple?

What are the consequences of sending in your tax return, filled out entirely in roman numerals?

What happens when you wake up e-mail spammers with 4:00 a.m. phone calls?

Action-packed and stocked with laughs, PRANK THE MONKEY follows the quest of one crusader of justice as he dishes out revenge on the world's biggest--and most deserving--targets. Superprankster John Hargrave goes after Wal-Mart, pompous celebrities, and the entire U.S. Senate in this outrageously funny book, exposing them for the chimps they really are--and shows you how to do the same.

This premiere volume features dozens of all-new pranks, more ambitious than any attempted to date, by any person, anywhere.

Sir John Hargrave, award-winning Internet humorist, has been pranking the system for years on his comedy website, ZUG.com. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (24)

Just Okey
Bought it on the enthusiasm displayed by fellow reviewers. Some of the pranks are highly elaborate but somehow I expected more out of the book. There are some laughs to
be had and I do appreciate the irreverence this author has for the large and small targets of his wit. You have to acknowledge that there are very few in this line of work and for that I congratulate him. More like a 3.5 but not as funny as I thought it would turn out to be. I can only imagine this is a serious job for it does take a lot of diligence and perseverance to keep at, it but mostly it takes the kind of playful nature this author has in abundance. Some moments in the book much better than others but overall I do agree with need more ofSir John Hargrave's Prank the Monkey: The ZUG Book of Pranks kind of books, because after all if you can not enjoy a good laugh at messing around with the IRS, WalMart, etc., then we would all walk around being much to serious to be fun at all. Well definitely visit his website for who knows what he might write or say in the near future. Do not regret the purchase and the book itself was nicely presented. Worth the money and perhaps I am being too harsh with my rating for like I mentioned above, these kind of individuals are rare and few and we need all we can get! Come to think of it, for that alone, 4 Stars!
PS: I do not know what the problem is with Amazon but I certainly did not create the gap between.."There are some laughs to be had.." and the big space after.

This Book Changed My Life
I was a high corporate muckety-muck when I first stumbled upon a website called zug dot com, a writer named Sir John Hargrave and a book called Prank the Monkey.Now I'm a part-time clean up man in the private stalls of a pornographic book store.More importantly, though, I have joy in my heart, and an impressive collection of obsolete woodwind instruments.

I love you, Alan Natanagara.And you're not half bad either, Sir John.

Amazing
Sir John is a pranking mastermind!This book oozes with a level of cleverness that many could only dream achieving.I applaud you Sir!

One of If Not Thee Funniest Book I've Ever Read
I one day came across the ZUG site and was blown away by the intensely funny nature of Sir John's writing. I then heard about the book he was releasing. I knew that if contained stories of the caliber on his site the book would be quite enjoyable. I was not mistaken, for the book was side-splittingly funny. It is one of those books you can reread over and over again.

After you read it through 5 or so times, show it to all of your friends. I got a massive kick out of watching other people read it. They would start to guffaw and chuckle at Sir John sublime comedy and I would join in. Good Times.

Not a bad book, not great, but not bad
Entertaining enough.
Most stories come from the web site.

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The "owner of the copyright" guarantees that "The Young Visiters" is the unaided effort in fiction of an authoress of nine years. "Effort," however, is an absurd word to use, as you may see by studying the triumphant countenance of the child herself, which is here reproduced as frontispiece to her sublime work. ... Read more

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First read the book, then see the movie!
I saw the movie by chance ("The Young Visiters" a BBC Television special featuring Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie and Bill Nighy), and found out it was based on this highly original book written in 1890 by a wonderfully naive 9-year-old girl. What a treat! I would have preferred reading the book first, but the original did not disappoint. Really great fun, especially since the original (mis)spellings are preserved and add very much to the printed version. This book gives you a really great insight into the mind of a child of that day and age, which is hilarious and touching!

treemendus fun
Would we enjoy this book as much if it was not written by a nine year old child? Was it written by a nine year old child? Does it appeal to Americans or to Britishers who are not familiar with the nuances of social pretensions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?
Frank Swinnerton, and James Barrie are suspects for being the true authors but there good evidence (although I don't know if it's been recently reevaluated) for Daisy Ashford.
The compartments in the Crystal palace in which the nobility live seem to me to be authentic products of nine year old imagination.Small children often come up with gems like that. The ability to create a coherent plot and follow narrative theme for the length of a novel, even if only a sixty page one is unusual for even a talented child. Children are lazy and, even if they write at length, their stories become fragmented, losetheir thread, and are often derivative. It takes adult skills and capacity for sustained hard work to write a coherent full-length work of fiction..Ashford's failure to write after Barrie's death is suspicious..
Whatever the answers, the fact remains that I did enjoy it - treemendusly.

Very funny!
I was surprized at how very funny this book is and how true!Try it you'll like it!

A Laugh on every Line
How many self styled "comic" novels could hope to be as funny as this one...not many in my opinion. When a novel can be read through in a couple of hours and give you laughs on every page, you'd be mad not to buy it. Plus you'll probably want to read it again. There's plenty of information surrounding the background to this unique book, so I won't repeat any of it here. But basically, anyone with an interest in humour, absurd romantic situations, social history and a love of the English language simply has to have a copy of this. The charm of this book lies chiefly in the reading, it cannot be understood by just having it explained to you. Nor does it translate well to filmed adaptation; the recent BBC dramatisation with Jim Broadbent made a real ham-fisted job of it, adding their own extra plot and even making up new dialogue and mis-spellings...unforgivable!!
I agree with another reviewer who has mentioned that the J.M. Barrie forward is almost as entertaining as the book itself, drawing attention as it does to many of the best passages. Everybody I have introduced this book to has fallen in love with it, because it's nothing less than a pleasure to read. And its cheap too. In fact, my review could really be confined to two words - "Buy It!"

A classic just waiting to be rediscovered
This is the book that started the schoolchild genre subsequently defined by '1066 and All That' and Molesworth's various manuals such as 'Down with Skool' and 'Whizz for Atoms'. As with 'The Young Visiters', the grammar, the language and the authorial viewpoint of those classics contribute much to our enjoyment. But unlike its descendants, 'The Young Visiters' wasn't written by an adult ... probably.

To my knowledge, there isn't an audiobook version of the full text. But there are a couple of gushing extracts contained on the Naxos compilation '1000 Years of Laughter' which demonstrate that it isn't just the troubled spelling which make the book so amusing. The introduction to those extracts lead us to believe that JM Barrie, who wrote the introduction, could have had much to do with the entire work. Certainly once Barrie had died, she never wrote again, but my feeling is that the nine-year-old Ashford probably was the author. The story is less than 60 pages long, and can be enjoyed in a couple of sittings, then repeatedly re-read.

This work is likely to experience a dramatic surge in popularity this year. A TV adaptation starring Jim Broadbent (of 'Moulin Rouge' fame) will be broadcast, and this recently overlooked masterpiece will return to prominence once again. ... Read more