The Virtual Bookcase for browsing and sharing reviews of books. New to this site? Read the welcome page first. | |
 |
Home Recent reviews Collected book news Welcome to this site Add your own book |
The Virtual Bookcase : Shelf Cartoons
Books about cartoon series and cartoon books.Review:
Freud saw money primarily as a fecal symbol: something to hoarded, treasured, and counted. That probably says more about Freud and the times he lived in than money. A more modern and accurate interpretation of money would be as a symbol of fertility and potency. So perhaps it is no coincidence that until the arrival of Tina Brown in 1992, The New Yorker never ran cartoons about sex. On the other hand, an astonishing 25 per cent of the 13,000 cartoons it has run since 1986 have been about money. In his introduction to The New Yorker Book of Money Cartoons, Christopher Buckley, editor of Forbes FYI magazine, calls the cartoonists' obsession with b... Rest of this review on the detail page
(Review by amazon.com)
I want to add my review for this book!
Reviews (1) and details of The New Yorker Book of Money Cartoons
Book description
Meeting. Wooing. Dating. Mating. Wanting sex. Having sex. Regretting sex. Recovering from sex. Talking. Not talking. Proposing. Refusing. Marrying. Unmarrying. Remarrying . . . Here is the dance of true love captured at all its most outrageously funny moments--the graceful and the awkward, the blissful and the tormented. Here is meeting made easy at the "Mate Mart," Rilke as an aphrodisiac, and marriage as a daunting threshold ("And do you, Rebecca, promise to make love only to Richard, month after month, year after year, and decade after decade, until one of you is dead?"). Here is love between all sorts: children too young to know and adul... Rest of this review on the detail page
I want to add the first review for this book!
Reviews (1) and details of The New Yorker Book of True Love Cartoons
I want to add the first review for this book!
Reviews (0) and details of The New Yorker Book of Doctor Cartoons and Psychiatrist
Review:
This is the best book of lawyer cartoons anywhere. Succinct, subtle satire that ought to leave lawyers praying for their reformation!
(Review by )
I want to add my review for this book!
Reviews (1) and details of The New Yorker Book of Lawyer Cartoons
I want to add the first review for this book!
Reviews (0) and details of The New Yorker Book of Dog Cartoons