Books : Mad About the Sixties: The Best of the Decade
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 051
EAN: 9780316334181
ISBN: 0316334189
Label: Little, Brown
Manufacturer: Little, Brown
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: September 01, 1995
Publisher: Little, Brown
Sales Rank: 567267
Studio: Little, Brown
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Product Description:
An illustrated compilation of the craziest humor published in the 1960s in the nation's craziest--and most popular--humor magazine includes movie parodies, political satire, memorable MAD covers, classic features, and much more. QPB.
Amazon.com Review:
When American kids of a certain vintage--Bill Clinton, for example, but not Bob Dole--put down their childish things, they picked up MAD magazine. It didn't leave their hands until adulthood hit, and maybe after. The magazine ain't what it used to be, so it's easy to forget how keen it once was. MAD About the Sixties is a long-overdue collection of material from that seminal humor magazine's salad days. It's a welcome reminder that when MAD was good, it was very, very good: it featured solid writing coupled with great art, month after month. The movie and television parodies ("Bats-Man," "Star Blech") are sure to be a hit, whether you saw the originals the first time around or as reruns. While it helps to have lived through the era--particularly for the ad parodies--there's enough generic daffiness in MAD About the Sixties to satisfy the reader who never saw Wings, much less Paul McCartney's other band.
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You would like this edition.A friend of mine came from the States and lent me only once,but I must own it to read through it again.I like Mad magazines since I was a kid.To me a person should be a little mad or
funny.But also be intelligent at the same time.
Unfortunately,there are people who are only mad.
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Great for us Baby Boomers. Younger readers will know the Beatles, but what will they make of "Nikita Kruschev" (who seems to be in more stories than anyone else), or "Cassius Clay", or Joey Bishop? If you are a baby boomer you will enjoy running barefoot through all the nostalgia, scatteringflowers and babana peels (there's even a joke about smoking them!). If you are a BB's parent you will be able to say "I told you so". But younger readers whoare not History buffs will probably start fairly quickly skipping pages to find Don Martin and Spy vs Spy.
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This book, which is a collection of things compiled from Mad Magazine, is funny summary of the decade. Mad About The 60's covers many of the most popular movies and tv shows from the 60's with their usual style of parody. This book also features many of the funniest cartoons that would appear monthly in the magazine such as Dave Berg, Don Martin, ect. Many of the featured elements of this book have a lot to do with the attitude, politics, and lifestyle of the 60's. For a Mad Magazine fan this book is a nice buy.
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What can one say about mad magazine? I've been reading for a long time. Even though I wasn't alive in the sixties, this book portrays them fairly well. Aside from Mad About The Seventies, this currently tops the Mad Magazine Humor list. With parodies of Gilbert and Sullivan, My Fair Lady,and Lawerence of arabia, this is a must read. My favriote section was in the late sixties. Overall, Superb.
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Anyone who has been following Mad, will really enjoy this book. It is a bit difficult to read like a novel. But, you keep coming back to it and each section keeps you smiling away.
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