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Three of Erma Bombeck's books in one."At Wit's End""Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own""I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression" ... Read more

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The popular humorist offers tips and truisms on travel, discussing oddly named food, Asian bus drivers in Germany, plumbing around the world, and more. Reprint. NYT. K. ... Read more

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Bombeck at her Best
Defintely a fun book to read! Filled with hilarious adventures that everyone can relate to.You won't want to put it down.
An older book, was a bit discolored...but VERY inexpensive and completely intact.A great buy.

Bombeck's travel don'ts
This is not one of Bombeck's funniest, but it is typical of her humorous work, and provides some "laugh out loud" moments. There are also some poignant moments where Bombeck gets serious about connections that were made between her and women of another culture. If you want to know where not to go and what not to do on vacation, check out this book.

Laugh out loud funny
The late Erma Bombeck did a wonderful job writing this book, and a GREAT job narrating it. You could tell exactly what the author had in mind with her inflections and easy to understand voice.

I laughed out loud through most of it; a small part was poignant about family ties.

Trying Too Hard
The first few chapters got me laughing, yes. But later on, I felt like I was reading a stand up comedian's script. It made me feel that everytime she goes on a vacation, she turns every moment as an oppurtunity to make it derogatorily funny. A bit too pessimistic for me.
i liked however how she pointed out the 'usual' members of a travel group and the confinement of travelling with a group.
sometimes the accounts are too exagerrated, bordering on slapstick: (when she decided to travel and not be a house-sitter anymore, she held up her hands to declare this, clutching the neighbor's hamster).
This is a book that may be enjoyed by people who travel so that they could be reminded of how things are all better 'back home'. People who genuinely love to travel (for love of culture and other purposes) may find it a waste of time reading this.

The most humorous book I have ever read!
This is the first book I've read by Irma Bombeck and I bought it because of the rave reviews from other readers.I was more than pleasantly surprised.I am recovering from a broken ankle and needing a "little cheering up".This book did the trick.I was laughing nonstop.I would highly recommend it! ... Read more

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At Wit's End, Aunt Erma's Cope Book, The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank and If Life is a Bowl of Cherries What am I Doing in the Pits? ... Read more

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One way to deal with the stress of parenting teens is to laugh at the consequences, this book helps you do that
The focus here is on the teenage child and with four in my blended household, I have a great deal of experience in dealing with them. My situation is nowhere near as bad as Bombeck relates, in many ways she exaggerates the situation for comedy effect. Yes, teenagers still listen to unusual and raucous music and with the advent of the MP3 player, do so all the time. In fact, the greatest status symbol now is whether you have an iPod or a generic MP3 player.
Bil Keane is a cartoonist who contributes the visual effects to the book. He is best known for his "Family Circus" cartoon strip and it is easy to recognize similarities between the characters in his strip and those in the cartoons in this book. Together, they have developed an amusing look at the teen years from the perspective of a parent. Eventually, you do get through it and then have the opportunity to look back and appreciate how the circumstances were never as bad as you thought they were going to be.
Growing up is hard, yet being the parent of a child growing up is in some ways even harder. Although this book was written in 1971 and so much has changed since then, the fundamental problems of the teen years have not. Peer pressure and the desire to fit in are as strong as ever and one of the best ways to cope is to attack the problem with humor. The combination of Bombeck and Keane do that really well, so when your children stress you out, one way to deal with it is to make fun of it with this duo of humorists.
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1977 - 1st Edition - Phoenix Pub - Paperback - and finally... - By Ray Thompson - The Dean of Arizona TV Newscasters - Forward by Erma Bombeck - Illustrations by Tom Wells - VG Condition - Collectible ... Read more

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Erma, don't change!
In this witty, laugh-out-loud funny effort, Erma details her attempts at self-improvement through her reading of recommended self-help books. From jaunty to bizarre, she sometimes pastiches and sometimes invents books that give advice on everything from guilt to meditation to penny-pinching - strategies which are applied and then discarded with hilarious consequences. While I don't think it's Erma Bombeck's best, it's certainly a worthwhile read and will no doubt be a treat for all her fans. ... Read more

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Together for the first time--the late Erma Bombeck's observations on the hilarious aspects of family life. This four-in-one collection includes The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries--What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Aunt Erma's cope book and Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession. ... Read more

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Vintage Erma as her best
There is a reason an entire generation of young mothers now refer to her as "Saint Erma."She made "real life" cool.She taught us to laugh at ourselves while embracing the wonderful ordinariness of everday living and loving.This collection is among the best of the "Erma works" and anyone who is a fan, or soon to be, will enjoy this valuable collection of Bombeck wit.

If you love Erma, you'll want to read it all
Younger Erma fans may have missed these older books by our most prolific female humorist, and this is a great way to get them all.

Four of A Kind Funny
Ms. Bombeck hits home with her housewife humor.From the legality of family vacations to stepmother's with bad PR, Bombeck keeps her readers laughing through tears and every emotion in between.A great book toinclude in any true Bombeck fans library.Ms. Bombeck will be dearlymissed in her absence. ... Read more