Marty Beckerman
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Product Description Adolescent culture in America has degenerated to an all-time low. Fickle pretensions, capricious brand name loyalties and plain ol
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d idiocy are infesting high schools throughout the nation more now than ever before. But 17-year-old Alaskan humorist Marty Beckerman has risen like a phoenix from the sordid ashes of his generation. Utilizing a vicious wit and incredible gift for the heartless ridicule of others, Beckerman shows in "Death to All Cheerleaders" just how much greater the World might be if we were to simply get rid of all its worthless people. Review Funny stuff. ... Marty is a very precocious smart-ass with a mean streak of cynicism. -- The New York Press, October 5, 2000Once the initial shock of Beckerman's profanity and hatred wears off, there are some highly readable and humorous gags. ... Frequently hilarious. -- The Anchorage Daily News, September 29, 2000 About the Author Marty Beckerman is a teenage humorist living in tropical Anchorage, Alaska. His award-winning columns appeared between 1998 and 2000 in The Anchorage Daily News, Alaska's largest newspaper. It should be noted that Beckerman was forever banished from the Anchorage Daily News after asking a cheerleader how it feels to be a urine stain on the toilet seat of America -- a question, as it turns out, neither the cheerleader nor Beckerman's editor found particularly amusing.
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