“Our Dumb World” Audiobook Update -- November 2007

Title: “Our Dumb World”

Author: The Onion Staff - Every week, three million readers turn to the world's most popular news organization for a much-needed dose of Onion news and entertainment coverage. In a history spanning 15 years, six popular books, and 10 Webby Awards, The Onion has attracted legions of loyal fans drawn to its fearless reporting and scathing commentary on world events, human behavior, and journalistic convention.

Narrator: Not identified… Hmmm… maybe ashamed to admit it?

Publisher Synopsis: Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of The Planet Earth, 73rd Edition features incorrect statistics on all of the Earth's 168, 182, or 196 independent nations. It also features maps, including a foldout world map at actual size. Readers will learn about every country from Afghanistan, 'Allah's Cat Box,' to the Ukraine, 'The Bridebasket of Europe.'

OUR DUMB WORLD is an invaluable tool for any reader interested in overthrowing a weakened government in East Asia, exploiting a developing nation in Africa, or for directions to tonight's party at Erica's. It is a reference guide to 250,000 of the world's most important places, such as North Korea's Trench of Victory, the Great Human Pyramid of Egypt, and Saudi Arabia's superhighway, the Mohammedobahn.

Other Background from the Publisher: To understand the news, the context of world geography and history is essential. That is why The Onion is publishing an audio world atlas: to help us. News that now makes no sense will now make sense; thus a new age of enlightenment. Our Dumb World contains news and historic facts from other nations, historic timelines for countries, and the earth broken down and described (from its molten core to the outermost sphere and the location of heaven), as well as demographic, economic, and other data about each country's people, industries, and habits.

Every country is categorized in a number of ways, including ethnic cleanliness, level of Bono activity, prop comedians per 1,000 live birds, yearly income in wide-screen televisions, the monkeys they have, where it sees itself in five years, average skin color, benefits of invading said country, and most annoying handicrafts. Framed with informative essays and written by the full Onion staff, Our Dumb World is the first original Onion audio book in eight years: a gut-busting send-up in which no nation escapes unscathed.

Al’s Opinion: Wacky as expected. Good for some laughs. Don’t wait for “Our Dumb World -- the Movie”. The complete audio review will be available on Oregon Public Broadcasting's Accessible Information Network in November 2007.

For more information on OPB's audio service, please visit this link: http://www.opb.org/accessinfonet


Audio Al 2007

This is a link to other audiobook updates in my DU journal:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Audio_Al


Unabridged: N/A

Abridged:
Number of CDs: 3
Number of Hours: 3.5
List Price: $24.98
Downloadable: www.audible.com

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Publication Date: October 30, 2007

Hardback/Paperback: Hardcover, 288 pages, Little Brown and Company, Copyright 2007

Audio Sample: www.HachetteAudio.com , www.audible.com