sevenspiders - reviewed on 2/4/2009 + 73 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 8

This was my first encounter with Denis Leary and I can certainly see why he would rub some people the wrong way. He's loud, spastic and opinionated but pretty freakin' hilarious most of the time. He skewers modern society in all our over-priviledged glory and many of his observations are embarassingly true. Leary does devote a chunk of time to talking about his Catholic Irish upbringing which was less amusing than his insights on society in general.

But for the majority of the book Leary takes potshots at everything from Viagra to cancer-causing popcorn to child rearing to celebrity sex tapes, and does it in fine form. If you take him seriously, he comes off as a complete ass, but as Leary himself states in the introduction- the book is meant to be comedy, it's not meant to be taken seriously, and from a totally non-serious viewpoint Why We Suck is very funny.

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