Bart Simpson's Guide to Life: A Wee Handbook for the by Matt Groening
By Matt Groening
From AV Club:
"The controversy surrounding Bart Simpson whilst The Simpsons debuted as a series—won’t a person safeguard the kids from the scourge of “Underachiever And happy with It” shirts?!—seems old fashioned twenty years later. however it is helping clarify Bart Simpson’s advisor To lifestyles, a manufactured from the early Simpsons age while lots of the consciousness occupied with the 10-year-old rapscallion. within the ebook, Bart deals counsel on every little thing from foodstuff to oldsters to intercourse and faith. even though many people wrote the booklet, Matt Groening is the one one credited, and its dense structure remembers Groening’s existence In Hell sequence. simply because characters have constructed and the show’s voice has replaced, Bart’s consultant To existence is understandably a piece dated 17 years later (see the connection with Simpsons bootleg shirts), yet like many of the books in this record, it’s a memento from a special pop-cultural age."
From Amazon:
"Starved for the total fact, man?
Take a chew out of this bitsy yet beefy package deal, brimming with morsels of wit, knowledge and worldly wisdom delivered to you by way of the only and in basic terms Bartholomew J. Simpson. Get the hard–knocks evidence of existence from the man who's noticeable all of it, heard all of it, performed all of it and denies it all.
(The "J" stands for "Jo–Jo"...)"
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