Pros: Humorous, thought provoking Cons: Everybody is a target
The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1911) This little tome was compiled over an extended period by journalist, newspaper editor, and critic Ambrose Bierce who used his fertile imagination to come up with alternative definitions of some ...
Pros: Hypocrisy and folly skewered and served with exquisite precision. Cons: Use of the 'N' word; Christians insulted right along with everybody else!
"Bitter" Ambrose Bierce had an attitude.
In an era that believed in social progress -- if not human perfectibility -- he saw people as hopelessly venal, selfish and hypocritical. In an era remarkable for its piety, he saw the religious as...
Pros: Witty humor. Easy to share. Dirt cheap at $1. Great bathroom and work reading. Cons: He may offend. Ambrose is dead. Long live Ambrose. If he were around today!
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I first came across “The Devil’s Dictionary” in...
Pros: Wickedly funny. This is the gift for a college student. Cons: Some will find Bierce's ideas far too cynical to give them the time of day. Too bad.
"Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work."
This pretty much sums up "The Devil's Dictionary."...
Pros: Wickedly satirical. Cons: Can at times be depressing to the hopelessly optimistic.
The satire in this book, originally named "The Cynic's Word Book" is readily apparent. First heard of this book my freshman year in college, got it two years later.
Favorite definition: Hash=There is no definition for this word; nobody...
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