The New York Times bestselling reinterpretation of the Ten Commandments from the larger, louder half of the world-famous magic duo Penn & Teller.
A scathingly funny reinterpretation of the Ten Commandments from the larger, louder half of world-famous magic duo Penn and Teller reveals an atheist's experience in the world: from performing on the Vegas strip with Siegfried and Roy to children and fatherhood to his ongoing dialogue with proselytizers of the Christian Right and the joys of sex while scuba-diving, Penn has an outrageous sense of humor and a brilliantly entertaining opinion on, well, anything you care to think of.
The New York Times bestselling reinterpretation of the Ten Commandments from the larger, louder half of the world-famous magic duo Penn & Teller.
A scathingly funny reinterpretation of the Ten Commandments from the larger, louder half of world-famous magic duo Penn and Teller reveals an atheist's experience in the world: from performing on the Vegas strip with Siegfried and Roy to children and fatherhood to his ongoing dialogue with proselytizers of the Christian Right and the joys of sex while scuba-diving, Penn has an outrageous sense of humor and a brilliantly entertaining opinion on, well, anything you care to think of.
Penn Jillette is a cultural phenomenon as a solo personality and as half of the world-famous Emmy Award-winning magic duo Penn & Teller. His solo exposure is enormous: from Howard Stern to Glenn Beck to the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He has appeared on Dancing with the Stars, MTV Cribs, and Chelsea Lately and hosted the NBC game show Identity. As part of Penn & Teller, he has appeared more than twenty times on David Letterman, as well as on several other TV shows, from The Simpsons and Friends to Top Chef and The View. He cohosts the controversial series Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, which has been nominated for sixteen Emmy Awards. He is currently cohost of the Discovery Channel's Penn & Teller Tell a Lie and the author of God, No! and Presto.
"Jillette has made a career as a provocateur, and it is tempting to
dismiss this book as another piece of carny shtick, but there is a
forceful intelligence at work here that demands to be taken
seriously. He has shaped his argument with care." --"Daniel
Stashower, " Washington Post Book World
"Penn Jillette is a 21st-century Lordof Misrule: big, boisterously
anarchic, funny, Rabelaisian, impossible--andunique. There
isn't--couldn't be--better not be--anybody like him." --Richard
Dawkins, bestselling author of"The Greatest Show on Earth" and "The
God Delusion"
"People who say that libertarians have no heart or atheists have no
soul need to read this book. Because Penn Jillette has a lot of
both." "--Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of "South Park "and
award-winning Broadway musical" The Book of Mormon
"There are few people in the country who question more boldly,
brashly and bravely than my friend Penn Jillette. This book is
funny, provocative and profane. But is it right? God, no!" --"Glenn
Beck"
"This planet has yielded exactly one mutual friend for Glenn Beck
and me and that friend has written a brilliant book called "God,
No!. "Penn reveals 'the big secret of magic, ' tells you why
tattoos are perfect expressions of atheism and exactly what to eat
when you know you're going to vomit later." --"Lawrence O' Donnell"
This hilarious and often jaw-dropping audio version of magician Penn Jillette's reimagining of the 10 Commandments is a delightful romp from start to finish. As a narrator, Jillette offers an inspired reading as he outlines his political and social viewpoints in a deep and raspy voice. From his personal feelings about Richard Nixon to his thoughts about organized religion, Jillette leaves no stone unturned-and he doesn't feel an ounce of shame about any of his opinions either. Unlike his silent on-stage partner, Jillette is never short on words. Listening to this larger-than-life performer rant is entertaining and pretty darn compulsive, too. Jillette proves to be as strong a writer and narrator as he is magician. A Simon & Schuster hardcover. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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