Love All the People: The Essential Bill Hicks - Softcover

Hicks, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593762011 ISBN 13: 9781593762018

Publisher: Soft Skull Press, 2008

Synopsis

Love All the People, a collection of controversial comedian Bill Hicks’ stand-up routines, notebooks, journals, and letters, traces his evolution from brilliant conventional stand-up to something far more interesting and dangerous: a comic speaking without fear. The result is a radical philosopher masquerading as a comedian, plumbing the American psyche with challenging (and side-splitting) conclusions. Hicks, who died of cancer in 1993, didn’t go the easy way with his humor. He attacked the lies that justified the carnage of the Gulf War, the preposterous power of the mainstream media to confuse and corrupt, and the demeaning cynicism of the marketing culture. In Love All the People, that renegade comic artistry that made Bill Hicks an iconoclastic social commentator is recorded, celebrated, and revealed as true genius in this expanded edition that includes additional routines and other writings.

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Review:

A fantastic book .... His truth will make your stomach churn - there were times I was laughing at the most horrendous things. (Shazia Mirza, Observer)

His words still burn with righteous truth. This book could change your life. (Paul Brannigan, Kerrang)

He exhorted his audiences to do more than just laugh - he wanted them to strive to make the world a better place. (Jon Barnes, Times Literary Supplement)

The title Love All the People ... isn't remotely ironic ... Hicks was, in his angry, cynical and still unsurpassably funny way, the most hopeless of romantics. (Andrew Mueller, Time Out)

Book Description:

'An incredibly moving experience ... Hicks's summation of life gains greater spirituality as he goes on.' Scarlett Thomas, Independent on Sunday

About this edition

• Publisher: Soft Skull Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1593762011
• ISBN 13: 9781593762018
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336