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A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury | 
| Authors: Aaron Mcgruder, Michael Moore
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Rating:  83 reviews
Sales Rank: 299633
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 1400048575
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781400048571
ASIN: 1400048575
Publication Date: September 23, 2003
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Condition: BookCloseouts scratch & dent version. New book that may have some cosmetic damage (i.e. shelf-wear, torn or missing dust jacket, dented corner...). Otherwise excellent specimen - guaranteed!
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Here’s the first big book of The Boondocks, more than four years and 800 strips of one of the most influential, controversial, and scathingly funny comics ever to run in a daily newspaper.
“With bodacious wit, in just a few panels, each day Aaron serves up—and sends up—life in America through the eyes of two African-American kids who are full of attitude, intelligence, and rebellion. Each time I read the strip, I laugh—and I wonder how long The Boondocks can get away with the things it says. And how on earth can the most truthful thing in the newspaper be the comics?”
—From the foreword by Michael Moore
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| Customer Reviews: Read 78 more reviews...
 Missing Some Key Strips! January 16, 2008
Eternity (Charlotte, NC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Alright, first off, I'm loving the Boondocks comics. I was introduced to the animated series before reading the original comics. The series is ok (I'm not a fan of the heavy use of the "N" word by ANYONE) but the comic is utterly fantastic! Whether or not others like or "approve" of the strip is not a concern for me. To each his/her own, just respect folks with different perspectives and tastes. That said...
The reason I gave this book only 3 stars is because it's missing some key strips. I'd checked out from my local library "Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper" and "Fresh for '01", which is what made me decide to buy the treasury; I just had to have more! But as I read this treasury I felt something was missing. As I read on it hit me: Psycho "Star Wars" Guy (if you don't know, read the other titles)!! Then I realized the treasury was missing the mini-saga when Granddad was a census taker but got Riley to do his work...(again, read the other titles). It was so hilarious and I just can't figure out how/why it got left out. I haven't finished reading the book so I don't know what else got left out, but I'm still disappointed enough to only give the treasury (NOT the content of The Boondocks itself) 3 stars.
If you have an open mind, read these comics August 20, 2007
April Almanza
This comic book is great. It started out as comics before going to a cartoon for one season, so I didn't know about the comics until the cartoon came out but I'm glad I found out, these are hilarious
 Awsomely awsomenessness June 8, 2007
Stephanie East (whitecrest)
Words cannot describe how good this is. It's better than chocolate and peanut butter put together! (if your not illergic)
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Offensive humor at its best April 4, 2007
Joshua Mallett (Tucson, AZ USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What can one say about The Boondocks that hasn't already been said? By now, you already should know that the humor is racially-based, the protagonist is a 10-year-old civil rights supporter and approximately 100% of the jokes are as left-wing as it gets. Well, there isn't much more to say so I'll give you my own PERSONAL Boonocks experience.
For those who have only seen the TV show, The Boondocks comics are far funnier and far more sophisticated. If you enjoyed the show, you won't be able to put down this piece of gold.
For those who have never even heard of The Boondocks, but are interested in investing their money in a worthwhile comic strip I'd have to say that The Boondocks is the best comic strip since Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. The difference here is that Aaron McGruder WILL make you think a little, but at no additional expense. The amount of laughter that will escape your body will seem daunting when you realize how many ears you've destroyed because you couldn't control yourself. Yes, this is really that funny.
Now if you don't find politics and race very funny, or are even offended by either, then The Boondocks may not be for you. But let me say this: it does not take a high level of intelligence to get a good laugh from McGruder's comic strips. As long as you are breathing and have a pulse, his humor will find you.
Humorlessness, A Horrible Scourge August 22, 2006
Paul Wake (Utah)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In "Good Morning, Vietnam" there's a scene where a guy just doesn't grasp a joke when it's thrust upon him. He's sure he understands humor, because he can list a few things he thinks are funny. But as a general rule he doesn't--and can't--get the joke. I think that if that guy was modeled on someone real, that person has grown up to become a reviewer on Amazon, and has been panning "A Right to Be Hostile."
Is Boondocks one sided? Yes. Is it rampantly ideological? Yes. Would white folks be denounced as the vilest racists for saying about blacks the sort of things McGruder says about whites? Yes.
SO WHAT?!
The comic strips are funny. They're really, really funny. What a shame that the humorless folks who have worked themselves into a lather over the politics of the thing just can't grasp that. Do I like it because I think like McGruder? Oh, no. No no no. But I don't like libertarianism either, and I think P.J. O'Rourke is hilarious. Get past your politics, people, and enjoy the strip's sense of humor. This collection is as good as Doonesbury or Bloom County. The next collection, "Public Enemy #2," isn't as good, but this is great.
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