With more than 180,000 copies in print, The Portable Curmudgeon provides all the proof needed to convince even the most hardened skeptic that there's an endless popular appetite for irascible wit and satirical spleen. Now the Curmudgeon is back with a vengeance with more than 1,000 brand-new, delightfully acerbic quotations from the world's greatest grumps. Line drawings.
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With more than 180,000 copies in print, The Portable Curmudgeon provides all the proof needed to convince even the most hardened skeptic that there's an endless popular appetite for irascible wit and satirical spleen. Now the Curmudgeon is back with a vengeance with more than 1,000 brand-new, delightfully acerbic quotations from the world's greatest grumps. Line drawings.
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This, along with Jon Winokur's "Portable Curmudgeon" and "Return of The Portable Curmudgeon", should be held close at hand and heart by every self-respecting curmudgeon! Within the covers of these books are quotes for almost all topics, from A to Z. Here are a set of source books guarenteed to bring a smile to one's face and lighten one's heart!
Jo Ellen H
Apr 7, 2013
Not as enjoyable as the original
Too contemporary and likewise way too sour for an old coot such as I. The earlier (original for sure) compilations seemed to be more user friendly.