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The hilarious cartoon family everyone is talking about. The Family
Circus appears in 1300 newspapers and charms millions of avid fans
daily. --This text refers to an out of
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of this title.
Product Description:
Daily positive reminders of family love through Bil Keane's Family
Circus. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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64 of 66 people found the following review helpful:
3 Words!,
1-6-2005Reviewer: Justin T. Steiner (Arlington, VA)
Three simple words wrap up the reason to buy this book: FULL. FRONTAL. NUDITY.
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America's
favorite perverted family, 12-22-2004Reviewer: Floyd's Garage "Punk Rocker" (Pembroke Pines, FL USA)
You'll laugh out loud as Billy continues his efforts to sodomize Barfy. PJ looks on with whimsical amusement as Dolly 'discovers' herself. Dolly may have pudgy little legs, but that doesn't stop the boy next door from noticing her. He really likes her 'developing, ripening buds'.
But Thelma is the main attraction. No MILF in the world can compare to her. With her razor-blade haircut, she goes on a sex spree that Nina Hartly, Samantha Strong, and Wendy WHoppers couldn't accomplish in a combined movie career. Poor Daddy is bound and gagged and is forced to watch as Thel attempts a threesome to the third power. She is the hottest Mommy in town and only Blondie Bumstead has a better body, but she's such a prude.
You'll also enjoy Daddy as he finally decides he's had enough and goes to the red-light district in search of cheap floozies. He discovers prices aren't what they used to be, but he falls for a transvestite who calls himself Wilma. Little does he know that Wilma and Thel eventually hook up-- leaving Daddy alone again with nothing to do but watch Dolly and the neighbor boy.
All in all, the "Family Circus" is good, clean, sexy fun.
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Family Circus, Family Delight,
8-8-2004Reviewer: A. Birkemeier (Peach Springs AZ)
"Family Circus" is the wonderfully kooky story of the modern family. It deals with the trials and tribulations of raising a Christian family in this modern era. Comedy arises through mishaps such as misunderstanding words, church principles, and of course cannibalism.
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Justice
Denied, 12-5-2004Reviewer: Albert Lee Esse "Mohamed Stein" (Andissa, Greece)
Smoking some marijuana given to him by Uncle Roy, Jeffy, who is also an alcoholic, manages to set fire to the house and burn it to the ground. The insurance company refuses to pay because of Daddy's previous arson convictions. When Thel meets the psychopathic Uncle Roy at the homeless shelter, he uses his charm to convince her to abandon Daddy and join him in a countrywide murderous spree. John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Jack the Ripper could have learned a lot from this pair of degenerates. Having one's mother and uncle appear on "America's Most Wanted", understandably, subjects the kids to unending merciless taunts from their schoolmates. Thankfully, Daddy's large collection of automatic weapons and handguns was destroyed in the fire. Another Columbine is averted.
Grandma is pleasant. But not when she has been drinking. Regrettably, she is beaten until a vegetable when she belittles the family for their homelessness. Daddy is incarcerated. Billy, Jeffy, and Dolly are sent to juvenile-detention centres. PJ is adopted and grows up to become a politician, which causes his foster parents to disown him. Because no one is left to look after Barfy, he is abducted and dies in an animal experiment. When PJ eventually discovers that his biological father is imprisoned, he undergoes a sex change to become, with many injections of female hormones, a voluptuous and beautiful woman. Her plan to seduce the warden and gain her father's freedom goes awry when the warden's sexual orientation turns out to be different from what PJ had expected.
Bil Keane: Existentialist, raconteur, party animal. Recently a British citizen, he remains an enigma to us and probably to himself. Keane scholars have, for years now, been comparing him favourably to the finest writers-- the psychological insights of Dostoyevsky, the striking metaphors of Shakespeare, the playful bawdiness of Chaucer. Yet in an interview in the latest issue of National Review, Keane claims that his greatest influences were Aeschylus and Beckett. It therefore came as no surprise to anyone when "The Family Circus" was short-listed for the Pulitzer. Bookmakers in Las Vegas and the United Kingdom had him a clear favourite.
So there is widespread general agreement that the only reason he lost was his criminal record and his dalliance with the Maoist Shining Path insurgents. Writers around the world were outraged. Mailer called it a disgrace. Vidal laughed and said, "What did you expect?" Even Salinger briefly came out of self-imposed exile and blasted them. Keane certainly did not help himself when he, in a drunken rage, took off all his clothes and tried to enter the Democratic National Convention--an event that made headlines everywhere. After reading this book, you too will know why Keane has been described as the twenty-first century's Marquis de Sade.
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"The
Family Circus" is Art at its
best, 12-30-2004Reviewer: Liminst Yonk (Mississippi, USA)
The ostensible subject of "The Family Circus" is the dissolution of a family, one of those august old Mississippi families that fell on hard times and wild eccentricity after the Civil War. But in fact what Bill Keane is really after in his legendary novel is the kaleidoscope of consciousness-- the overwrought mind caught in the act of thought. His rich, dark, scandal-ridden story of squandered fortune, incest (in thought if not in deed), madness, congenital brain damage, theft, illegitimacy, and stoic endurance is told in the interior voices of three brothers: first Billy, the "idiot" man-child who blurs together three decades of inchoate sensations as he stalks the fringes of the family's former pasture; next Jeffy, torturing himself brilliantly, obsessively over Dolly's lost virginity and his own failure to recover the family's honor as he wanders around the seedy fringes of Boston; and finally P.J., heartless, shrewd, sneaking, nursing a perpetual sense of injury and outrage against his outrageous family. Everything is here: the complex equilibrium of pre-civil rights race relations; the conflict between Yankee capitalism and Southern agrarian values; a meditation on time, consciousness, and Western philosophy. And all of it is rendered in prose so gorgeous it can take your breath away. What Keane has created is a modernist epic in which characters assume the stature of gods, and the primal family events resonate like myths.
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