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Underrated: The Yankee Pot Roast Book of Awesome, Underappreciated Stuff
Lists miscellaneous aspects of film, television, popular culture, and daily life that are underrated, including Greek diners, Thurgood Marshall, and meatloaf.
- GenresHumor
204 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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June 12, 2019
Yes, I laughed out loud. But I hated the book.
The authors made up some stupid “formula” to reach a random rating on how underrated things are. Then they explain just why their pea-brains think these things have obtained the rating.
This book was written by three immature men. If not referring to women generically as “chicks” they are described as “smoking hot”, “blazing hot”, “steaming hot”, or “sultry puffy-lipped” (I kid you not). If they don’t like the woman the writers excoriate them:
I don’t think the word “woman” is used once in all 202 pages, but sexual references are in multitude. About a third of the way into the book I noticed that there hadn’t been any chapters about a woman. So I counted: Out of 64 people, food, movies, etc., that are listed as underrated, only ONE is a woman. Nicky Hilton.
Hated this misogynistic book.
The authors made up some stupid “formula” to reach a random rating on how underrated things are. Then they explain just why their pea-brains think these things have obtained the rating.
This book was written by three immature men. If not referring to women generically as “chicks” they are described as “smoking hot”, “blazing hot”, “steaming hot”, or “sultry puffy-lipped” (I kid you not). If they don’t like the woman the writers excoriate them:
Harrison knew that the bitch was crazy and would suck Clapton’s soul right out of his body. George just went out and found himself a hotter, less crazy bird to take her place.
I don’t think the word “woman” is used once in all 202 pages, but sexual references are in multitude. About a third of the way into the book I noticed that there hadn’t been any chapters about a woman. So I counted: Out of 64 people, food, movies, etc., that are listed as underrated, only ONE is a woman. Nicky Hilton.
Hated this misogynistic book.
January 16, 2023
Laugh-out-loud funny
There were several occasions when I laughed out loud as I skipped through this book, but a closer reading was usually rewarded with more subtle little bon mots, like when being sad over a novel is equated to having a cappuccino with Joan Didion. Also, their choices for underrated-ness are often spot on, as when they called out Sam Rockwell as an underrated actor, about 1.5 decades before he won an Oscar. I’m not going to rush out to watch Mall Rats because these guys said it’s underrated, but if I trip over it while channel-surfing I might watch it, based on their citation of one of my favorite movies, Big Trouble in Little China, which shows that the authors and I are at least wavelength adjacent.
There were several occasions when I laughed out loud as I skipped through this book, but a closer reading was usually rewarded with more subtle little bon mots, like when being sad over a novel is equated to having a cappuccino with Joan Didion. Also, their choices for underrated-ness are often spot on, as when they called out Sam Rockwell as an underrated actor, about 1.5 decades before he won an Oscar. I’m not going to rush out to watch Mall Rats because these guys said it’s underrated, but if I trip over it while channel-surfing I might watch it, based on their citation of one of my favorite movies, Big Trouble in Little China, which shows that the authors and I are at least wavelength adjacent.
March 23, 2009
Very fun read, even though the mathematical formula made no sense. Read it now while it's still up to date!
November 20, 2022
overrated
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