Titters, Giggles And Tears by Dennis Fenichel
(Paperback)
- Publisher: Outskirts Press, Inc.
- Pub. Date: January 2008
- ISBN-13: 9781432718961
- 252pp
Synopsis
Warning: This Book Will Make You Laugh
Dennis Fenichel is a clinical psychologist/psychology professor who has sung and done improv comedy professionally on the side. This collection of humorous essays has been described as Woody Allen meets Lewis Carroll meets Groucho Marx. The author melds his experience as a psychotherapist with his wacky comedic imagination in writing about romance on the Net, interspecies dating, dental hygiene, the origin of the polka, and God's take on the state of the world. You will meet characters in these essays who will leave indelible imprints on your memory, that may require years of therapy to expunge.
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Titters, Giggles And Tearsby Anonymous
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March 16, 2008: 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 Tearsby Anonymous
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March 04, 2008: 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 anticeptic) 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.
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