by Aseem Gupta | Apr 8, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Napalm and Silly Putty should not belong in the same sentence. One is an incendiary weapon associated with organised destruction. The other is a harmless toy that stretches, bounces, picks up newspaper ink, and exists largely because human beings enjoy making strange...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 5, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? does not behave like a conventional book. It has no sustained narrative, orderly sequence of arguments, or carefully signposted journey from one conclusion to the next. Instead, it feels like somebody opened George Carlin’s filing...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 1, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Brain Droppings initially feels less like a carefully constructed book than a container George Carlin kept beside his mind. Into it went unfinished thoughts, one-line observations, questions, lists, complaints, definitions, imagined situations, social criticism,...
