Brocabulary: The New Man-i-festo of Dude Talk – A Revolutionary Lexicon for Bros: Drinking, Sex, and Bar Wisdom

by Daniel Maurer

Bro-cab-u-lary (n.): A revolutionary new lexicon for bonding with your bros Put down your BlackBerry, you PDA-hole, and cancel that masturdate it's time for a bawdy new dicktionary. This crucial addition to your guybrary will put you in the testosterzone, whether you're being fandiloquent at the game or barticulating during a fargone-versation. Find out how Stop brocrastinating! It's time to become everyone's guydol by leaving your mark on dudescussions for generations to come.

Genres: Humor

240 pages, Paperback

First published September 24, 2008

Reviews

[unknown]

I learned a new word from this book.

Shatisfied

The feeling you get after going #2, you feel extremely satisfied. This term is commonly known as "shatisfied". Cool!

[Jeff · Rating 1 out of 5]

There’s really no reason to review this book. Like a bowel movement or a rainy day, "Brocabulary" gives every impression of being something that just happened, without a great deal of foresight or craft, and is therefore able to successfully deflect pretty much any attempt at intelligent, objective criticism. It isn’t even a book, really. It’s more of a thing with pages that have words on them.

Written by Daniel Maurer, best-known for his work as the editor of New York magazine’s Grub Street blog, "Brocabulary" is filled with the sort of juvenilely profane, pun-heavy humor practiced by 12-year-old alcoholics and guys who desperately miss the frat years they can’t remember – in other words, people who don’t (or can’t) read. Writing a book for this demographic seems like a pretty curious thing to do – sort of like marketing Viagra to eunuchs, or distributing free oil change coupons to the blind – but Maurer obviously had his reasons for wanting to write this book. (Hopefully, his publishing advance was at the top of the list – and hopefully, it was huge, because he’s probably never going to see another dime from "Brocabulary.")

[Cal]

I have never read a book with fewer redeeming qualities than Brocabulary. This is not to say that I haven't read more disturbing books. The Turner Diaries and Mein Kampf have, of course, a much more horrifying message, and my reading of both left me with a cold, dead feeling in my heart which Brocabulary never approaches. But those books also allow one a unique insight into the inner workings of the German Nazi party and the more recent American white-supremacist movement, respectively—both movements of tremendous cultural and political import.

Paging through Brocabulary, on the other hand, is like reading the wall of a frat house bathroom. The messages are evil, to be sure, but a tame, boring sort of evil. The misogyny is repulsive but not brutal. The homophobic bigotry is sickening but not homicidal. One could condemn the author for having written it, but even better would be to simply ignore it entirely.

[Joanna · Rating 1 out of 5]

Crude, lewd, and not very well written. I'm all for being funny and jocular about bromance and man behavior, but when it just advocates getting lit and doing blow, I'm out.

[Tom · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not funny and bad writing. Doesn't come close to the books around Barney Stinson from How I met your mother.

[Carme Perez · Rating 2 out of 5]

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