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Who Was Charlie Chaplin? 谷歌图书
作者: Patricia Brennan Demuth / Who HQ Penguin 2016 - 12
Who was the real Charlie Chaplin? Kids will learn all about the comic genius who created "The Little Tramp"!

Charlie Chaplin sang on a London stage for the first time at the age of five. Performing proved to be his salvation, providing a way out of a life of hardship and poverty. Success came early and made Chaplin one of the best loved people in the United States until the McCarthy witch hunts drove Chaplin from his adopted country. This is a moving portrait of a multi-talented man—actor, director, writer, even  music composer—and the complicated times he lived in.
2024年12月5日 已读
卓别林原来是英国人啊!出身贫寒,同母异父的哥哥对他很好,后来成为他的商业伙伴,默片时代的大神,全能(写、导、演、编、甚至谱曲),留下很多经典作品,卓别林褪去小胡子的化妆很帅的,还有四任年轻貌美的夫人(均为演员),晚年被怀疑同情共产党而被迫离开美国移居瑞士。这本是 Gregory Copeland 的插画。
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I Am America 谷歌图书 豆瓣
作者: Stephen Colbert Grand Central Publishing 2007 - 10
Congratulations--just by looking at this webpage, you became 25% more patriotic.
From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report , comes the book to fill the other 23¿ hours of your day. I Am America (And So Can You!) contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast.
Dictated directly into a microcassette recorder over a three-day weekend, this book contains Stephen's most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form.
Always controversial and outspoken, Stephen addresses why Hollywood is destroying America by inches, why evolution is a fraud, and why the elderly should be harnessed to millstones.
You may not agree with everything Stephen says, but at the very least, you'll understand that your differing opinion is wrong.
I Am America (And So Can You!) showcases Stephen Colbert at his most eloquent and impassioned. He is an unrelenting fighter for the soul of America , and in this book he fights the good fight for the traditional values that have served this country so well for so long.
Please buy this book before you leave the store
2024年6月16日 已读
这本书里 Stephen Colbert 这名伪共和党人给大家普及一下共和党基本盘的基本素质,也没什么(😛),就是一些厌女恐同仇外自大拥护父权好战的集大成者,本以为会很好笑的,但听他读出来整本书都是这种讽刺,而当我认识到美国确实有很多人一辈子坚定地信仰着这套我就笑不出来了,我还是喜欢听 Jon Steward 正面硬刚脱掉他们的遮羞布,Jon Steward 也助声演了,那段没认真听,考虑重新听听那段。
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You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time 谷歌图书
作者: Patricia Marx Celadon Books 2020 - 01
The perfect Valentine’s Day or anniversary gift: An illustrated collection of love and relationship advice from New Yorker writer Patricia Marx, with illustrations from New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast.
Everyone’s heard the old advice for a healthy relationship: Never go to bed angry. Play hard to get. Sexual favors in exchange for cleaning up the cat vomit is a good and fair trade.

Okay, not that last one. It’s one of the tips in You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples by the authors of Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It: A Mother’s Suggestions. This guide will make you laugh, remind you why your relationship is better than everyone else’s, and solve all your problems.

Nuggets of advice include:

If you must breathe, don’t breathe so loudly.

It is easier to stay inside and wait for the snow to melt than to fight about who should shovel.

Queen-sized beds, king-sized blankets.

Why not give this book to your significant or insignificant other, your anti-Valentine’s Day crusader pal, or anyone who can’t live with or without love?