26 Results for : lampoons
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Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 249min
From the number-one New York Times best-selling author of Grace's Guide and the host of The Grace Helbig Show on E! comes a tongue-in-cheek book about style that lampoons fashion and beauty guides while offering practical advice in Grace Helbig's trademark sweet and irreverent voice. It's clear to see I'm a style icon; remember, you can't spell icon without "con". Grace Helbig doesn't want to tell anyone how they should dress, how they should do their hair or makeup, or even which dog poop bags to purchase - because surprisingly, Target has numerous options for that too! While Grace doesn't claim to be stylish or polished, she is very self-aware and perceptive. Trendy? She'd rather have fun trying. She loves fashion as much as the next lady, man, or French bulldog, but telling others how they should look doesn't suit her. Instead, with Grace & Style, Grace takes us into her closet and shares her silly and practical approach to style - which obviously includes an entire chapter on sweatpants. One part parody, one part fashion fun, and one part personal experience, Grace's latest guide to life as a woman in America today is more H&M than Chanel. So tighten your Banana Republic belt a few notches, and learn how to pretend and convince everyone around you that you've got style and grace! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grace Helbig. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007323/bk_sans_007323_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Last Looks: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 501min
A razor-sharp, exquisitely paced, madly fun debut thriller that gleefully lampoons Hollywood culture and introduces the highly eccentric yet brilliant ex-detective gone rogue: Charlie Waldo.There are run-of-the-mill eccentric Californians, and then there's former detective Charlie Waldo.Waldo, a onetime LAPD superstar, now lives in solitude deep in the woods, pathologically committed to owning no more than 100 possessions. He has left behind his career and his girlfriend, Lorena, to pay self-imposed penance for an awful misstep on an old murder case. But the old ghosts are about to come roaring back.There are plenty of difficult actors in Hollywood, and then there's Alastair Pinch. Alastair is a onetime Royal Shakespeare Company thespian who now slums it as the "wise" Southern judge on a tacky network show. He's absurdly rich, often belligerent, and typically drunk - a damning combination when Alastair's wife is found dead on their living room floor and he can't remember what happened. Waldo's old flame Lorena, hiding peril of her own, draws him toward the case, and Alastair's greedy network convinces Waldo to take it on. But after such a long time away from both civilization and sleuthing - and plagued by a confounding array of assailants who want him gone - Waldo must navigate complicated webs of ego and deceit to clear Alastair's name... or confirm his guilt. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Michael Higgins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/004098/bk_peng_004098_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Mother, Can You Not? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 223min
Based on the wildly popular Instagram account @CrazyJewishMom, Kate Siegel's essay collection is about life with the woman who redefined the term helicopter mom. There is nothing more wonderful than a mother's love. There is also nothing more annoying. Who else can proudly insist that you're perfect while simultaneously making you question every career, fashion, and relationship decision you have ever made? No one understands the delicate mother-daughter dynamic better than Kate Siegel - her own mother drove her so crazy that she decided to broadcast their hilarious conversations on Instagram. Soon hundreds of thousands of people were following their daily text exchanges, eager to see what outrageous thing Kate's mom would do next. Now, in Mother, Can You Not?, Kate pays tribute to the woman whose helicopter parenting may make your mom look like Mother Teresa. If fans think Kate's mom's texts are insane, they will laugh out loud at the anecdotes her daughter shares in this collection. From embarrassing moments (like her mother's surprise early morning visit, catching Kate in bed with her crush) to outrageous stories (such as the time she moved cross country to be near Kate's college) to hilarious mantras ("NO STD TEST, YOU WON'T BE GETTING SEXED!"), Mother, Can You Not? lovingly lampoons the lengths to which our mothers will go to better our lives (even if it feels like they're ruining them in the process). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Siegel, Kim Friedman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004476/bk_rand_004476_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Horace Greeley: The Life and Legacy of 19th Century America’s Most Influential Editor , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 109min
“Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.” (Horace Greeley)"That poor white hat! If, alas, it covered many weaknesses, it covered also much strength, much real kindness and benevolence, and much that the world will be better for.” (Harriet Beecher Stowe’s remark about Horace Greeley)There is little one can say about Horace Greeley that has not already been said, much of it during his lifetime, for unlike many others, fame came to him early, and by the end of his life, he was already one of the most famous men in the US. Of course, no one who knew him as a young man would ever have thought this would be the case, for he was born into less than ideal circumstances, and he went out to work early as a print setter. He experienced several business failures before finding success with the New York Tribune. On the other hand, he enjoyed quick but brief political successes, followed by frequent but unsuccessful runs for public office. In his 2017 essay “Emerson’s Newspaperman: Horace Greeley and Radical Intellectual Culture, 1836-1872”, David O. Dowling observed that Greeley “brokered his career in large part on public controversy, much of which he openly courted. In the process, he became victim to savage lampoons, particularly by Thomas Nast.... [H]is views elicited a deluge of responses precisely because his outspoken editorials had run counter to the status quo. A newspaper editor, Greeley insisted, was ‘not a mere jumping jack, who only needed to know what other people thought to ensure my instant and abject conformity to their prejudices’”.At the close of a biography of Greeley, historian Glyndon G.Van Deusen noted, “His genuine human sympathies, his moral fervor, even the exhibitionism that was a part of his makeup, made it inevitable that he should crusade for a better world. He did so with apostolic zeal.... Greeley's effectiveness as a crusader was limited by some of his traits and characteris ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/132323/bk_acx0_132323_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sense and Nonsensibility
Sense and Nonsensibility - Lampoons of Learning and Literature: ab 10.3 €- Shop: ebook.de
- Price: 10.30 EUR excl. shipping
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Futuristic Money Makers
On first listen you may be tempted to cast it away as offensive jetsam of the mind. Listen again, though--do you hear that? It's King Kong Magnetics, the satirical hip-hop group that clearly loves and harshly lampoons the staples of the rap genre at every turn. Perhaps it is most important to keep in mind that this is music made in a spirit of love and fun, and that is how it is to be enjoyed. Don't take the message too seriously and hopefully you'll find yourself enjoying it, too.- Shop: odax
- Price: 15.66 EUR excl. shipping
