James Finn Garner is een Amerikaanse schrijver en satiricus, geroemd om zijn scherpe, humoristische commentaren op maatschappelijke en politieke stromingen. Zijn werk staat bekend om zijn treffende humor en vermogen om de absurditeit van hedendaagse opvattingen bloot te leggen door middel van ironische en grappige hervertellingen van bekende verhalen. Garner onderzoekt thema's die de botsing tussen traditie en progressieve ideeën belichten, vaak met als doel de lezer aan te zetten tot nadenken over maatschappelijke normen en de taal die we gebruiken om ze te definiëren. Zijn satirische benadering biedt een verfrissende en provocerende lens om de wereld te bekijken.
This is a "topsy-turvy" book of both Politically Correct Bedtime Stories and Once Upon a More Enlightened Time in one volume, an exclusive Quality Paperback Book Club edition. No publishing date is given, copyright dates of 1994 and 1995 for the two books.
Once upon a time, in the olden days, heavy-set middle-aged men would congregate in their elitist clubs, sit in over-stuffed leather chairs, smoke air-choking cigars, and pitch story ideas and plots to each other. Problem was, these stories, many of which found their way into the general social consciousness, reflected the way in which these men lived and saw their world: that is, the stories were sexist, discriminatory, unfair, culturally biased, and in general, demeaning to witches, animals, goblins, and fairies everywhere. Finally, after centuries of these abusive tales, which have been handed down--unknowingly--from one male-biased generation to the next, James Finn Garner has taken it upon himself (that's right, yet another man) to enlighten and liberate these classic bedtime stories and retell them in a way that is much more in keeping with the society in which we live today. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, then is the fruit of Garner's labors. We'd like to think that future generations of fairy-tale fans will see this as a worthy attempt to develop meaningful literature that is totally free from bias and purged from the influences of a flawed cultural past. --front flap
The author of the multi-million-copy bestselling Politcally Correct books now turns his jaundiced eye to the eschatalogical--and generates big yucks at what he sees. Lampooning everything from Mad Max to the Rapture to 666, the Number of the Beast, James Finn Garner launches an assault on UFO conspiracies, numerological calculations of the last days, harmonic convergences, and other millennial prophecies.
A collection of Christmas stories, retold for readers of evolved consciousness, liberated from archaic, sexist, ageist, classist, lookist and other environmentally unsound prejudices.
The Ultimate Storybook
James Finn Garner wowed the world when he wrote Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, which sold nearly 2 million copies, and then followed it up with two books with the same theme, Politically Correct Holiday Stories and Once Upon An Enlightened Time; the three books together sold nearly 3.5 million copies in the U.S. and were translated into 20 languages. Garner's incisive and hilarious books took age-old bedtime and holiday stories and made them into politically correct tales of our day. His original humor, filled with social commentary, is well-known by readers around the country -- most recently in his new book Apocalypse Wow!
Prerozprávané klasické rozprávky, bájky a príbehy od bratov Grimmovcov, H.Ch. Andersena a iných autorov sa stali bestserelmi - predstavujú inteligentný typ humoru, ktorý pobaví a prostredníctvom ktorého sa dozvedáme veľa o sebe a spoločnosti.
Prerozprávané klasické rozprávky, bájky a príbehy od bratov Grimmovcov, H.Ch. Andersena a iných autorov sa stali bestserelmi - predstavujú inteligentný typ humoru, ktorý pobaví a prostredníctvom ktorého sa dozvedáme veľa o sebe a spoločnosti.
Prerozprávané klasické rozprávky, bájky a príbehy od bratov Grimmovcov, H.Ch. Andersena a iných autorov sa stali bestserelmi - predstavujú inteligentný typ humoru, ktorý pobaví a prostredníctvom ktorého sa dozvedáme veľa o sebe a spoločnosti.
