OUR DUMB WORLD is the world's most comprehensive fake atlas: a repository of all known information about the planet Earth (except where covered by clouds).
In late 2007 the hardcover edition became one of the hottest books of the holiday season, entertaining and offending hundreds of thousands of readers around the globe. This new, easy-to-carry paperback edition is perfect for the intrepid traveler to any of the world's exotic locales—from Afghanistan, "Allah's Cat Box," to Ukraine, "the Bridebasket of Europe," to the USA's own Nevada, "Where Everyone's a Loser."
Packed with beautiful full-color maps and framed with inaccurate essays about all the world's peoples and places, OUR DUMB WORLD is a gut-busting send-up in which no nation escapes unscathed.
"Bottom line: laughed my head off." —Deirdre Donahue, USA Today
Anonymous
Posted Fri Jul 13 00:00:00 EDT 2012
I read the beginning of this book in Barnes and Noble (The United States Portion) and thought it was very funny, so I bought it. I soon realized that every country was just one joke repeated over and over. Canada is cold, Mexicans immigrate to America, Belize gets hurricanes, Iran has a supposed nuclear program and hates Jews. These all just sound like common American stereotypes dragged on in the forms of timelines and maps.
I thought The Onion would do better, what a disappointment.
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Posted Tue Jul 08 00:00:00 EDT 2014
Very funny and entertaining way to sort out geographical confusion. A satire on the Rwandan genocide that Swift would appreciate.
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Posted Fri Oct 28 00:00:00 EDT 2011
I never laughed so much while reading.
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Posted Mon Feb 22 00:00:00 EST 2010
Not nearly as funny as the "newspaper" compilations. Can be repetitive, a chore to read.
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Posted Sat Jan 16 00:00:00 EST 2010
good laughs and writer has a great sense of comedy.
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Posted Sat Jan 09 00:00:00 EST 2010
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Overview
OUR DUMB WORLD is the world's most comprehensive fake atlas: a repository of all known information about the planet Earth (except where covered by clouds).
In late 2007 the hardcover edition became one of the hottest books of the holiday season, entertaining and offending hundreds of thousands of readers around the globe. This new, easy-to-carry paperback edition is perfect for the intrepid traveler to any of the world's exotic locales—from Afghanistan, "Allah's Cat Box," to ...