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I was turned on to Simon Rich through an article I read of his online.... knew I needed to find more from him. While this is from a bit earlier in his writing career, the whit, humor, and quirky thinking are still there. Best of all, you easily find yourself relating to his short "stories" in a way that you realize he's simply put down on paper a lot of the thoughts that we had at various stages of our lives. Thoughts that seem ridiculous to us know, but at the time made absolute sense.

I would give this 5 stars, but the book tends to drift off a bit towards the end... The material at the beginning had tears rolling out of mine (and my family's) eyes as we laughed... the last half of the book is still very good, but just not quite at the same level.


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Ant Farm And Other Desperate Situations Simon Rich 9781400065882 Books Reviews

I had read the cover years ago and had added it to my want list...it's not really a remarkable or thought provoking book, although the synopsis had made me think otherwise. I will donate this book vs. keep it..
Great read. Liked this even better than Free Range Chicken.
It's not easy to write something funny, but Simon Rich has a knack for it. This collection of short stories, which I heard Rich refer to as "scenarios," is a really good read. You can open to any page and start/finish a story in less than 5 minutes... Put the book down and come back to it later or breeze through a few, or all of the stories at once.

The very first story in the book describes the awkward conversation between Abraham and Isaac on the drive home after God's last-second reversal of his command for Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, to God.

"How about some ice cream, Isaac?"
This is the funniest book I've read in 2 years. I'm now buying all of Simon Rich's other books.
A lot of hype, a little bit of book. Much of it I didn't even understand. Okay, I'm late 50's in age, so maybe that's why; I had a chuckle or two, but mostly shook my head in dismay. I think, post-50, or maybe just not movie and TV addicted, it's not entertaining.
These stories are very very short which is good. If they were any longer they might well result in emotional damage to the reader. Mr. Rich's imagination takes us where few have gone before.

I mean what would you do if an angry murderer threatened you with death if you didn't come up with the correct answer to a trigonometry problem (sin2x=2cosinxsinx)? Have you ever thought how difficult it would be to wage war using Swiss army knives? Is it really true that God intervenes to help Orel Hershiser pitch his way to victory? Is it a fact that scientist Stephen Hawking is really a time traveler? Is it possible for ants to dig to freedom from a glass walled ant farm?

Do these story topics pique your interest? If so cough up 10 bucks and buy the book. If they leave you cold, well, hey spend the money on a six pack, and have fun that way.
This is a very short but very funny collection of imagined scenes by a former Harvard Lampoon writer. These whimsical bits range from Abraham's awkwardly quiet ride back to town with Isaac (who he almost just sacrificed), to the reaction of kids who are told for the first time that there are actually machines for computing the math problems they've been tortured figuring out by hand all these years, to ants trying one last time to dig that tunnel that'll get them out of the farm (I know this is our eighth attempt and we keep hitting glass, but I have a good feeling about this one!). Some are better than others, but none take more than sixty seconds to read. I can think of much worse ways to spend my minutes.
I was turned on to Simon Rich through an article I read of his online.... knew I needed to find more from him. While this is from a bit earlier in his writing career, the whit, humor, and quirky thinking are still there. Best of all, you easily find yourself relating to his short "stories" in a way that you realize he's simply put down on paper a lot of the thoughts that we had at various stages of our lives. Thoughts that seem ridiculous to us know, but at the time made absolute sense.

I would give this 5 stars, but the book tends to drift off a bit towards the end... The material at the beginning had tears rolling out of mine (and my family's) eyes as we laughed... the last half of the book is still very good, but just not quite at the same level.