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| Titters, Giggles and Tears: The rantings of a debrainged psycauliflowerologist on proctology, internet love, interspecies dating and the meaning of life |  | Author: Dennis Fenichel
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,670,203
Media: Paperback
Pages: 252
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 4.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 1432718967
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781432718961
ASIN: 1432718967
Publication Date: January 10, 2008
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Product Description
Titters, Giggles and Tears is a collection of essays on a variety of topics, grounded in humor. The author, a psychologist who has performed in several improv comedy groups, allows his bizarre imagination to run free as addresses topics as diverse as Internet romance, the origins of a variety of dances, what dentists don't want you to know,a faux autobiography, autodating (i.e. oneself, rather than a vehicle),the adventures of a shoe salesman who tries to kill himself and winds up putting a bullet through his foot, and the adventures of a lost soul as he makes the rounds of doctors who could be characters in Alice in Wonderland, as he tries to discover the roots of his unease.
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Not just titters and giggles, but chortles and guffaws March 6, 2008
MidwestBookman
I'm not sure I'd recommend him for a prostate exam, but if you're afflicted with a twisted funny bone, you might want to spend some time in the (hardly antiseptic) trailer park offices of Dr Spincter. Love troubles? May I recommend the lovely psychologist, Dr Ima Slutskaya? While recovering, you may choose to peruse the cautionary Internet dating tale of Marcus and Mariana. If you are the very sensitive type, their plight may induce you to drop a tear or two. Don't skip the copious footnotes to Fenichel's "A Short History of Dance." (I'll bet you aren't aware that there are many references to dance in the Bible--the Baptists, at least, certainly seem to have overlooked them.)
Mrs Grundy may want to pass on this one (or perhaps she'll quietly "tsk-tsk" her way through it in the privacy of her own home); but if your skin is thick, and your humor ranges from Woody Allen to the Three Stooges via Andrew Dice Clay, this book was written for you. You'll titter and giggle your way through it, and you might even find yourself chortling and guffawing as well.
Titters galore March 17, 2008
Sophie (USA & Europe)
Do you like stories that take you into a different world? Fenichel's stories are nonsensical, witty, satirical, absurd, and touching. Reading them is moving and living in the world of Monty Python and Alice in Wonderland for Adults while being totally sober. You meet characters such as the logically illogical proctologist Stanley Spincter who takes your word (but hands it back to you), learn the subtle perversities of the dentist's mind, the narcissist's pleasures of dating. Be touched by a playful, sad and tender Internet Romance, or the fate of the salesman's illustrious career. All these characters inhabit Fenichel's books, and are un-really alive. This is one of the funniest, most hilarious, comically strange books I have read in a long time. It takes you on a journey of laughs from beginning to end. I am already looking forward to his next book, and to meeting more of his originals and oddballs.
Titters, Giggles and Tears. Laughing at life and playing with words March 24, 2008
Sandra R. Merrill (Mpls., MN)
Life, real or unreal can be funny if you know how to play with the words and circumstances of it all.
The writer playfully throws so called normalcy out the window and runs away with your funny bone, only to throw in a sober zinger a couple of times.
A must read! everyone needs to laugh out loud at life, and its related activities, or pretty much every thing.
To those who understand funny... April 2, 2008
T. Dvorak (Minnesota, USA)
Let's see...who better than a psychologist to have some fun at the expense of the human condition? These stories are irreverent and satirical, yet insightful. If you enjoy reading all the things you wanted to say but didn't have the intestinal fortitude to, you'll love this. If you enjoy plays on words and mincing words, Dr. Spincter is your man. Need a dentist? Advice on love? Got two left feet? Titters, Giggles, and Tears delivers (the author, almost literally!).
The author demonstrates what years of training and work in psychology does to the mind! If your IQ is below 100, you'll laugh at the raunchy parts and miss all the good stuff (like a kid watching the Simpsons). If your IQ is above 100 but below 130, you'll laugh at a lot of the plays on words even though you don't know what the words mean (like most of the crowd listening to Dennis Miller). For those who are cognitively well-endowed, I'd suggest wearing a diaper or sitting on the toilet to compensate for the incontinence that accompanies heavy laughter while you read.
Do Not Exceed Recommended Dose April 8, 2008
M. G. Sorbel (Maple Plain, MN)
There should be an additional warning on this book. Something such as, "Do not exceed recommended dose." I am afraid for some, that this may be the case.
To be honest, when I began reading this book I thought the humor was just plain silly, goofy, nonsensicle madness (Sorry Mr. Fenichel)
As I got drawn further into the stories however, I realized that this madness does have meaning. I found that the stories were really observations or lessons about life. Lessons about us, as humans.
Does this understanding make us mad as well? I don't believe so. I think it makes us realize that we are all a little goofy at times and that humor can be (is) the only way to therapize one's self.
Dare I say that I recognized myself in this book?
In the end I learned more about how we (humans) interact with each other and how we doubt ourselves in those interactions.
After all these years, I thought it was just me.. (Thanks, Mr. Fenichel)
I highly recommend this book to anyone suffering from "Life"
If you really want to laugh in the mirror; read this book!
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