Embedded in America: The Onion Complete News Archives Volume 16

The Onion Complete News Archives

by Onion Editors

All The News That’s Fit to Reprint

The latest book in the New York Times bestselling Onion series includes every news story, opinion piece, news-in-brief, horoscope . . . yes, every last word that appeared in The Onion between mid-October 2003 and mid-November 2004. And this is the biggest book yet in the series. That’s right— Embedded in America includes eight additional weeks of award-winning coverage from The Onion , including two extra weeks of post-presidential election coverage.

Here they are at all the issues of The Onion that you missed because you had a life to live. And each page takes 0.0 seconds to load!

Embedded in America is Volume 16 in the popular and bestselling Onion series. Look for a new volume every year.

Genres: Humor, Fiction, Comedy

320 pages, Paperback

First published October 4, 2005

Reviews

[Kirk Morrison · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice collection of the satirical newspaper's best offerings from a period covering 2003-4. Sometimes the headlines alone will get your sides-splitting. I was on a pace of one laugh-inducing article per page- and that's a good return!

[Barbara · Rating 5 out of 5]

I laughed! I cried!

[Jimyanni · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a collection of spoof, "Harvard Lampoon" style, irreverent "newspaper articles", poking fun at some standards of the newspaper trade. What is particularly amazing about this is that not only do they fill an entire book with spot-on parodies of headlines, but in most cases, they actually write the article that goes with the headlines, and remain just as spot-on in their parodies. (In a few cases, all we see is headlines with fake "see story on page xx" tags.) My only complaint is with the "Ask A (fill in the blank)" repeating feature, which spoofs advice columns by having standard, run-of the mill advice column questions directed to some completely random "columnist" who makes no effort whatsoever to actually answer the questions, but simply goes off on their own rant. This was just barely amusing the first time, but did not bear repeating a second time, much less in over a half-dozen iterations. It would have been more amusing if the "columnist" actually made vague hand-waving gestures at responding to the questions, but somehow managed to drag their own screed into each answer; the total and complete disconnect was a gag that got old very quickly. Nor did I find the "columns" by "Herbert Kornfeld, Accounts Receivable Supervisor for Midstate Office Supply" who talks in gang-slang as if "accounts receivable" was his "turf" to bear repeating as often as it was used; it was funny enough once or twice, but not as a regular feature.

[Patrick · Rating 2 out of 5]

I adore the Onion and I like looking at the things they post from ages back, so I thought this would be fun. But it turns out that when the stories aren't at all topical, browsing a chronological archive of a fake paper is about as interesting as browsing a chronological archive of a real paper. I mean, some of them are timeless: "Point/Counterpoint: Pete's An Asshole vs. Aw, C'mon, Pete's An All-Right Guy" is never not funny. But for the most part, it's just not that interesting a read.