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"If You Don't Buy This Book, We'll Kill This Dog!": Life, Laughs, Love, and Death at the National Lampoon
Published in Hardcover by Barricade Books (1994)
Author: Matty Simmons
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Avoid this Book
In its heyday, the National Lampoon was a wonderfully funny and irreverent magazine. If you remember that and are seeking to recapture something of that magic, don't bother reading this book, which is simply a hurriedly assembled memoir by a not-too-bright hanger-on.

There's a story to be told here, but Matty Simmons is incapable of telling it.

I saved the dog
National Lampoon virgins are th only ones I would recommend this book to. A superficial history of the institution that the lampoon became is all it amounts to. Again only read if you are new to the national lampoon.

Funny, informative and well-written.
This book actually will only score a "7" for die-hard National Lampoon fans. Author Simmons was more like an unfunny father figure with a lot of advertising knowledge than the person behind the driven and deranged staff that was responsible for the funniest magazine of all time.Matty Simmons keeps it all in the first person, and in a fascinating read, takes you through the history of the publication, from its squabbles with local Harvard Lampoon, to its fledgling stage shows with Chevy Chase and John Belushi, to its megastardom with its Vacation films to its final undoing from writer Tony Hendra and actor Timothy Hutton, who engineered a hostile take over in the late 80's


The card castle
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Author: Matty Simmons
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The Credit Card Catastrophe: The 20th Century Phenomenon That Changed the World
Published in Hardcover by Barricade Books (1995)
Authors: Matty Simmons and Matty Simons
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