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Homeland Insecurity: The Onion Complete News Archives, Volume 17 (Onion Ad Nauseam) | 
 enlarge | Author: Onion Editors
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 72474
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 030733984X
Dewey Decimal Number: 081
EAN: 9780307339843
ASIN: 030733984X
Publication Date: October 31, 2006
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Product Description
Hot off the reprint presses!
Onion fans hear this! Homeland Insecurity is the largest collection of award-winning journalism from America’s Finest News Source ever released, and that means you must buy it! Featuring every brilliantly biting article printed in The Onion between November 2004 and December 2005, a time in our country’s history ripe for further examination by America’s Finest News Source, Homeland Insecurity collects all the news reporting you were too lazy to read when it first appeared, now delivered in a handy single volume that will fit perfectly on the bookshelf of your dorm, ward, or cell. Homeland Insecurity is Volume 17 in the always bestselling and always entertaining Onion series.
The Onion is the world’s most popular humor publication, with more than 3.8 million weekly visitors to its website (theonion.com) and a print circulation of more than 500,000. More than a million copies of its various books have been sold to date, beginning with Our Dumb Century, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
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 Well, the headlines are good.. April 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Unfortunately there is so much packed into this book that the print is downright tiny. Makes no sense as babyboomers tend to be the general audience, and our eyesight is waning. We enjoyed reading the article headlines though, as they stood out. If the authors were more selective and used fewer articles with larger print, this would've been a real hit.
Not to Mention Bloomin August 10, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Every cynical skeptic understands THE ONION gets it left approximately 97.6543% of the time and this gets it about that. Enlightening, entertaining, with frequent mention of mind altering substances, bodily parts and functions, God and Hell and politics and all sorts of stuff and nonsense. (Jeanketeers Unite!)
 Boyfriend loves it! July 7, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book for my boyfriend last Christmas. He loves the Onion and their books. You can't miss with this one.
Tears (of Laughter) Will Develop in Your Eyes as You Peel the Layers (Turn the Pages) of the Onion June 11, 2007
The excellent news parody The Onion has bound together another collection of their weekly newspaper, telling us their readers stories the main networks don't seem to want to tell us. The Onions inside are from the editions published online and in print between the 18th of November 2004 and the 14th December 2005. Some of the stories within are a bit shorter as they are incomplete than their original online format but the humour happens in what is there along with the headlines.
Whilst the Onion has a huge cult following, not everyone has heard of it. If you've enjoyed parody news TV shows such as CNNN or its still going spin off The Chaser then this is the book for you. Also if you're still unsure about buying this book you can just type in the onion dot com into your computer see the latest Onions and you'll know what your getting.
Other great parody fiction is out there but to name three you may be interested in if you enjoyed this book are Where's Bin Laden? by Daniel Lalic which is an excellent parody of the Where's Wally (Waldo in North America) series. 101 Places Not to Visit: Your Essential Guide to the World's Most Miserable, Ugly, Boring and Inbred Destinations by Adam Russ which is an excellent parody of those travel books that only mention the good things about destinations. The Self-Destruction Handbook: 8 Simple Steps to an Unhealthier You is an excellent and extremely funny parody of all those annoying self help books that want to make you a better you.
my sons love this book March 31, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
my sons (and husband) have been fighting over the book since it arrived- they have been laughing a lot too....
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