The Onion Ad Nauseam: Complete News Archives, Volume 13

The Onion Complete News Archives

by The Onion, Robert D. Siegel (Editor), Dave Eggers (Introduction)

The first installment of an ambitious new series, this book features everything published during The Onion’s thirteenth year: every news story, opinion piece, news in brief, horoscope . . . every last damn word that appeared between October 2000 and October 2001.

The Onion Ad Nauseam: Complete News Archives features loads of material no longer available online or anywhere else. Look for a new volume every year.

Genres: Humor, Fiction, Comedy, Satire, Reference, Politics

264 pages, Paperback

First published September 24, 2002

About the author

The satirical newspaper The Onion was founded in 1988 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Originally a weekly humor print publication targeting a local student population, The Onion is today a booming news organization known as America’s Finest News Source.

The launch of TheOnion.com in 1996 expanded its signature brand of satire to a national and international audience. Online expansion opened doors to growth in a multitude of areas. The company has become an omnipotent news empire, reaching millions of fans through print, broadcast, radio, mobile apps, books, and, in January 2011, two new television shows on the Independent Film Channel and Comedy Central. The website continues to be the nucleus of all The Onion does, described by TIME magazine as “the funniest site on the Internet.”

TheOnion.com now averages 40 million page views and roughly 7.5 million unique visitors per month. The Onion’s digital strategy has resulted in an enormous and dedicated fan base. The newspaper’s content is delivered constantly, Tweeted at optimum times and posted on Facebook during high-traffic periods. Subsequently, users can easily embed, share, or post articles and videos to their personal Facebook and Twitter accounts. As a result, the Onion’s fans take an active role in the viral nature of the content. Within minutes of posting an article or video, the content materializes across a number of platforms.

Reviews

[Mort · Rating 4 out of 5]

A horoscope or headline MUST make you laugh in this book, or you must be one of those born critics...

[Ray Dunsmore · Rating 2 out of 5]

Potentially interesting as a view into the lives of people 2000-2001. Unfortunately, those years are not actually interesting, mostly just dull and depressingly futile. The satire is absolutely spot-on, which I do have to commend the Onion for, and they get right to the meat of a very unpleasant time. My problem is that it's a time I don't care to relive.

[Simon Eisenstein · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed it, as expected, but some of the stuff has not stood the test of time, there were a lot of pop culture references that I was never going to get, and some of the articles just weren't all that interesting or funny at times.

[Daniel Kukwa · Rating 5 out of 5]

It works best to read this as the immediate 21st century follow-up to the magnificent "Onion" volume "Our Dumb Century". Hilarious from start to finish, but equally incisive and profound...the "God Clarifies No Kill Rule" story from the 9/11 issue walks the line of this particular set of characteristics perfectly.

[C. J. Scurria · Rating 2 out of 5]

I believe this is the one my brother owns but I am not sure. The famous Onion, their satirical articles over the years receive so much attention they often get confused as real news items leaving people reeling at said political party at their sudden inability to check the source of a story.

While all of that might be amusing to people what is important to me is the writing. I have trouble remembering any of the jokes within this hefty book. I do have memories of laughing at them but the only one that comes to mind is one where the punch line was the f-word over and over again, so I can definitely say for certain there is no real comedic quality within these pages.

For anyone quick to see an easy joke buy or if needed borrow this one. But to anyone only curious who purchases it I am sorry to say you now have an oversized paper weight.

[Jeremy · Rating 4 out of 5]

On the whole, The Onion is the most consistently funny publication that...oh, I don't know, has ever been printed throughout the existence of man? Unfortunately, this otherwise dependably hilarious collection of Onion articles is ineptly laid out, to say the least. Maybe there was some kind of super-cool joke hiding in this aggravating design that I missed, but it looks to me like they just slapped it together. But, again, funnier than pretty much everything.

[Bryan]

An excellent read: A great book. Even the little "news" tidbits they usually have on the front page of their site, in the sidebars that are not archived, are all there.

A slight gripe: most of the articles are spread over two - and sometimes three - pages. These pages are often not adjacent (e.g. article from p.48 is continued on p.50), so you often have to skip all over the place while other articles distract you.

Another gripe is that this is the only complete volume :). We need more!

[Colin · Rating 4 out of 5]

So far it's excellent, naturally, as brilliant and insightful and dead-on-the-money as anything else out there and then some, but I'm reserving the upgrade to that stubborn fifth star because it doesn't quite, well, warm the soul, you know? I always feel a little better informed and a lot more amused after I read The Onion, but also a little snarkier, and I'm just not sure that's a good thing.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Deliciously sick sense of humor. The Onion is so refreshing in the midst of such a PC climate. If you are not familiar with The Onion Newspapers and have skin thicker than that of (what else?) an onion, do acquaint yourself with their work.

[Stephanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this while I was working at Borders, honestly, I love the Onion, they're funny, but also the one news source that would print the same story over and over to drive home the point that something keeps happening when it could so easily be stopped.

[Patrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you've never heard of the Onion, you should get into it if you care about the laughter of children. It is a weekly free publication in several major cities. www.theonion.com.

[Incoronata · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh my god it's like dipping your hand in the worlds biggest candy bowl !!!!!!!

[Ari · Rating 5 out of 5]

We all need some of this sometimes...

[Fatbaldguy60 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hilarious. Horoscopes and the H-Dog are the best.

[Barbara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pretty good. I like the headlines better than the articles sometimes, and some of them are very, very wrong.

[Peacegal · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bright spot in a sad world. The Onion helps us laugh at ourselves.

[Rick Vickers · Rating 4 out of 5]

You've got to read the articles!

[Bryan · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's kind of wild how bad The Onion's hit-to-miss ratio used to be. Other than some of the post-9/11 stuff (which comes at the very end of this volume), there's not much to recommend it.

[Helga · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the Onion. On a serious note, the edition right after 9/11 should be required reading for anyone who means to kill in the name of G-d.