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Brain Droppings
Author	George Carlin
Language	English
Genre	Humor
Publisher	Hyperion
Publication date	May 1, 1998 September 1, 2006 (Reprint)
Media type	Hardcover Paperback Audiobook
Pages	272
ISBN	978-0-7868-9112-2
OCLC	150351163
Preceded by	Sometimes a Little Brain Damage Can Help
Followed by	Napalm and Silly Putty

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Brain Droppings George Carlin on Amazon.com.FREE. shipping on qualifying offers. With hundreds of sold-out concert dates each year, over 20 albums, two Grammys, two Cable ACE awards. Jan 01, 1997 George Carlin's been working the crowd since 'the counterculture' became 'the over-the-counter culture' around 1967 or so; his new book, Brain Droppings, surfs on three decades of touring-in-support.It's the purest version of book-as-candy that one could imagine, serving up humor in convenient, bite-sized packages.

Brain Droppings is a 1997 book by comedian George Carlin. This was Carlin's 'first real book' and contains much of Carlin's stand-up comedy material. According to the cover, the book contains 'jokes, notions, doubts, opinions, questions, thoughts, beliefs, assertions, assumptions, and disturbing references' and 'comedy, nonsense, satire, mockery, merriment, sarcasm, ridicule, silliness, bluster, and toxic alienation'. For longtime Carlin fans, the book also contains complete versions of two of his most famous monologues, 'A Place for My Stuff' and 'Baseball and Football'.

Free download or read online Brain Droppings pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of this novel was published in January 1st 1997, and was written by George Carlin. The book was published in multiple languages including English language, consists of 272 pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this humor, non fiction story are,. May 26, 2019 About Author George Denis Patrick Carlin: The author of the book is an American author. George Denis Patrick Carlin was not only a very good author but a very good stand-up comedian, actor, and social critic as well. Features of Brain Droppings: English is the original language of the book. There are 272 pages in the book. Wacky, odd, compelling, interesting and never dull. George Carlin's Brain Droppings is even more vulgar in text. The book has a lot of lists, short snips of his opinions and observations. Quick and easy read. If you're not easily offended buy this, very entertaining. Wish we got a couple more years out of George, he is greatly missed.

The hardcover edition was on the New York Times Bestseller List for 18 straight weeks. The following year, the paperback edition was published. It stayed on the New York Times Bestseller List for 20 weeks. Both editions were published by Hyperion.

As of January 2001, the book had sold over 750,000 total copies.

/online-games-joystick-compatible.html. Writer and television commentator Mike Barnicle supposedly lifted material from the book, without accreditation, and presented it as his own. He denied having read the book, but footage ofBarnicle praising the book and saying 'There's a yuk on every page' turned up. Barnicle was suspended for the action.

In August 1998, Hyperion published a 1999 calendar containing quips and quotes from the book.

In May 2000, the book was published as an audiobook by HighBridge,^[1] in both CD and cassette tape formats. The audiobook received a Grammy award, Carlin's third, in February 2001.

Differences in audiobook[edit]

/gun-gamecube-review.html. Since there was a 3-year gap between the printed book and the audiobook, a few things were changed due to changes in both Carlin's personal life and in the world in general.

His wife, Brenda, died shortly after the book was published, so in the audiobook he said 'I've had a great marriage..' instead of 'I have..'
He mentions being happy the Yankees annihilated the Braves in the World Series in the book, but mentions it happened twice in the audiobook as the two teams played again in 1999.
In mentioning teams who could never quite win the big title after so many years, he mentions the Vikings, the Broncos, the Bills, the Cubs, and the Red Sox in the book. In the audiobook, he omits the Broncos when they win two Super Bowls.
At the end of his discussion of when super celebrities die, in the book he says he can't even fathom Frank Sinatra's or Ronald Reagan's death. He omitted Sinatra in the audiobook after he died in 1998.
In a non-chronological change, in his 'Baseball and Football' segment, he adds the weird fact that baseball is the only one of the four major American sports that is sensibly unwatchable in a mirror. (Though this was touched on in one of his 'Short Takes' sections.)

References[edit]

^'Brain Droppings.' Publishers Weekly 247.23 (2000): 62. General OneFile (accessed 27 December 2009).

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George Carlin's been working the crowd since 'the counterculture' became 'the over-the-counter culture' around 1967 or so; his new book, Brain Droppings, surfs on three decades of touring-in-support. It's the purest version of book-as-candy that one could imagine, serving up humor in convenient, bite-sized packages. Snack on chewy one-liners like 'A meltdown sounds like fu..more

Published April 22nd 1998 by Hachette Books (first published January 1st 1997)

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Feb 27, 2014Mousetrap rated it it was amazing

I was in my high school English class, when our instructor wanted us to choose a book to read, and afterwards, write the author with questions that came up during the reading. I chose 'Brain Droppings' as I enjoyed George Carlin's stand-up routine and had seen him live before. The book was hilarious, as expected.
After reading, I wrote Mr. Carlin with a series of questions that came up during the reading. I did not hear back from him during the school year, which was fine, according to our teache..more

Jul 06, 2009dara rated it really liked it

A PLACE FOR YOUR STUFF:

Hi! How are ya? You got your stuff with you? I'll bet you do. Guys have stuff in their pockets; women have stuff in their purses. Of course, some women have pockets, and some guys have purses. That's okay. There's all different ways of carryin' your stuff.
Then there's all the stuff you have in your car. You got stuff in the trunk. Lotta different stuff: spare tire, jack, tools, old blanket, extra pair of sneakers. Just in case you wind up barefoot on the highway some night

..more

Oct 21, 2012Mina Soare rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

'My motto? 'F**k hope'. P.S. In case you're wondering, I'm a joyful individual [..] I'm a personal optimist, but a skeptic about all else'
Carlin efficiently kicks away all the crutches we use to justify the stupid things we live with.

Feb 19, 2009Jim rated it liked it

I'm listened to the audio book edition, read by Carlin himself. Since so much of his humor relies on the delivery, I think this was the best way to appreciate it. I am going to try to read his book, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? & I'll see how that goes.
The book is really just a bunch of his regular comedic material. His lists of things that piss him off, him tearing apart various sayings or making fun of people. It was good to listen to at the end of a frustrating day.
He had me lau..more

Oct 17, 2008britt_brooke rated it liked it

“No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.”
Reread this via audio while doing mountains of laundry earlier. I read it in print a few years ago, but UNsurprisingly, the audio is better. I miss George Car..more

George Carlin is one of my favorite comedians who made grumpy cynical 60 year olds cool. So when i took this book, i was looking forward to a lot of laughs that makes me think. I had quite not taken into account how much his delivery played a role! So, the book in effect looked like George Carlin's twitter account with brainy one liners that were more a 'yeah-funny' than laugh out loud.
The book has 3 types of themes - one based on language and word play which is joke book material. The other is..more

Recycled gold. In 2008 George Carlin faced something he rarely faced in his stand-up comedy career – dying. Put simply Carlin was, to borrow Muhammad Ali’s phrase, the greatest of all time. No other stand-up comic was able to elicit laughs from audience across six decades or was as much a master of the full range of stand-up comedy types. Carlin did observational humor better than Seinfeld, shock humor better than the equally deceased Sam Kinison, ranting topical humor better than the now Republ..more

Apr 03, 2017Kelly rated it it was ok

This is fun to dip in and out of but I just feel like George Carlin is funnier when you actually listen to him/watch him. This doesn't capture his wit very well.

Feb 02, 2010Nicholas Armstrong rated it really liked it

Okay, I think I should write more because honestly, when am I going to write about Carlin again? I don't think that many colleges accept dissertations on comedians but hey, if they do, I have a kick ass one in the works.
So I don't really remember the first time I heard George Carlin's stand-up, some time looooong ago, but the earliest I recall is when my dad got a double-cd collection of his stand-up and put it on when we went to the drive-in theater (who still does that?). I was in the back of..more

Absolutely hilarious!! I was a big fan of George Carlin and his somewhat sarcastic humor for years so when I saw this book I couldn't resist picking it up. Definitely the George I remember and made me miss him all the more. I just couldn't stop laughing for a lot of this. My favorite part was probably the rant about 'stuff', so so true. I have too much stuff, I continue to collect stuff, I've wished I had a bigger house for my stuff, I've gone on vacation bringing too much stuff and then buying..more

May 06, 2017Montzalee Wittmann rated it really liked it

Not my idea of funny. If you like sarcastic, mean and irreverent humor you might enjoy this. I didn't. The first 25 pages or so I would snicker at and hope it would get better. The next 125 I tried to 'get' his humor. Lots of word play and puns. Still not my style and I wasn't snickering to myself anymore. I was waiting to find something to laugh at. From page 150 or so until the end of the book I was skimming though long stretches. Probably the most interesting part was Carlin poking fun at his..more

My roomates had this book back in 2001. I read a few pages in the middle, including the part about the very strange phoneomenon known as sleeping, and ever since then, I always wanted to get it from the library and read the whole thing.
Well, finally, I DID! I liked it .. I got a kick out of George Carlin's in your face, irreverent style of humor. I laughed out loud in lots of parts and was bored but dutifully reading on in other parts .. pretty much what I expected from a 258-page version of a..more

Jul 08, 2010Evan rated it liked it · review of another edition

This book proves, to me anyway, that there is something to be said for editorial selection. When Carlin (a hero of mine, btw) was on stage, he -- like all comics -- had to pare it down the essentials: the tried-and-true tested stuff that he knew would get the laughs. His routines were honed gemlike and glittering with gems. No filler, no fat, no 'brain droppings,' as it were.
There are a million laughs and 'ah ha! touche' moments in this book, almost literally, but there are a lot of groaners an..more

Dec 15, 2009Loyd rated it liked it · review of another edition

Carlin was a master of words, which is his blessing and curse. It's impossible to imagine comedians such as Mitch Hedberg and Steven Wright existing without Carlin's example. Brain Droppings is a 'greatest hits' of classic observations, such as 'The Difference Between Baseball and and Football' and 'A Place for My Stuff.' But it also is an endless list of oxymorons, tricky wordplay and quirks of language that are hilarious in small doses, but can get tedious when confronted by dozens in one sitt..more

Oct 23, 2011David rated it it was ok

Huge fan of George Carlin's stand-up comedy; in fact, he's in my top three. But Brain Droppings was a letdown, of sorts. The ideas and witticisms presented by Carlin were too inconsistent, meaning there were far more 'sighs' than laugh-out-loud moments. Having read the book more than a decade after its release may have played into this as well, considering many of the references are quite dated (pagers, fax machines, Dukakis, etc.)
If you're a die-hard Carlin fan and must consume everything he ev..more

Jul 31, 2013Jill Hutchinson rated it it was amazing

I think that the late George Carlin was probably one of the funniest men who ever graced the entertainment industry. This book is typical Carlin....irreverant, sometimes profane, clever as hell, and an inducer of belly laughs. It is made up of little vignettes and one liners which will make you pass milk through your nose if your are unlucky enough to be drinking it at the time you are reading. He could take a common situation and turn it into a psychedelic experience. We lost a great talent..more

Jul 25, 2011Christian rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: own, disappointed

I like Carlin, I really do. But this book was a big disappointment. There are some small essays that are really good, despite often being not originally new material, things you've heard him say before. They're still fun. But most of the rest is comprised of one-liners, lists of words, list of fictional book-titles, sometimes an eyebrow is raised, sometimes a smile is just around the corner, but the book isn't as good as it is made to be. Maybe I had entirely wrong ideas what the book would be,..more

Sir George Cardin gets an incredible ability of observating things. I laughed out loud a lot while reading this book, but some parts were quite hard to grasp his jokes, tho. These jokes might be a little rough, dark for some and yet despite his bitterly violent humor, bet that one still found some interesting points of view which worth to think.
So, why dont you do yourself a favor and read this funny nonsense one 😉

Dec 19, 2008Michelle rated it it was amazing

This book induced absolutely hysterical laughing fits, so much that the other people in my house would come to check on me and make sure I was alright, only to have my hilarity spread to them without even hearing more than one or two words, which was all I could get out before cracking up again.
My husband and I saw Carlin do stand-up about 5 years ago, and he was great, but this book is AWESOME!!! If you like Carlin, read it.

Sep 03, 2012Romina rated it really liked it

Shelves: humor, non-fiction, biography, politics, autobiography, religion

Someone finally agrees with me. Moths are creepy. Don't like their unnerving unpredictable flying patterns. Not that all that hanging about light bulbs helps.

Jul 28, 2018Michael Kress rated it liked it

I listened to this on audio book during a long road trip, and it was perfect for that because there's no plot to follow and not a lot of intricate details that you must understand while you're concentrating on the road. It was read by the author, which is always a plus. Even though he claims at the start of the book to really be an optimist, I can't help but think it would have been hard to come up with most of his material without being a little bitter. In typical Carlin fashion, he ridicules m..more

Dec 02, 2011Katherine rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I miss George Carlin. I wonder what he would have made of the world we live in now, especially considering how much he disliked the America of his own time. I imagine he would be just as pissed off as he is in this book.
At times reflective, at times sociopathic, and always pretty random, this is a collection of Carlin's random thoughts, from global warming to Baby boomers, to oxymoronic words. It's almost better read out loud, to share the laughs with someone else.

Mar 08, 2013Donna Davis rated it did not like it

To say I read this book is deceptive. Please note that it is on my list of books I abandoned, and I made the unusual move of abandoning it after the preface. I didn't want to walk away without leaving a footprint, though. I wasn't bored, and I didn't fail to be engaged. I was pissed.
Here is a guy that I had begun to believe was sort of a latter-day Lenny Bruce, a First Amendment hero, a champion of free speech. But he wasn't. He was just a rotten guy with a dirty mouth.
Bruce was edgy for a cause..more

I greatly enjoyed this book. George Carlin was one of my favorite comedians, and I was so disappointed and upset when he died in 2008. There aren’t too many books that I really take a lot of time into reading. This is a book that you can read in small increments, and put down and be satisfied, and pick it right back up 20 minutes later. This is just a notebook of all of George Carlins best observations on life. Each one just as funny, if not funnier, than the last. George Carlin really makes yo..more

Mar 02, 2008Jeanette 'Astute Crabbist' rated it liked it

As with all of Carlin's stuff, some of this is hilarious, and some of it is just so-so. I happen to really like him because he says exactly what he thinks, and he ponders things most of us never consider. And he's not afraid of offending anyone. I myself have been on occasion offended by some of his stuff, but I still like him anyway.
My favorite sections in all of his books are the Short Takes. That's where I get the best laffs!

Still reading, but I have to say what a profound effect George Carlin has had in my life. I know, its cheesy, but its true. My dad introduced me to George when I was 9. Good parenting decision? Probably not. My first record was 'What am I doing in New Jersey?' Actual vinyl LOL. George changed my relationship with words forever. It impacts my life every single day..and not just because I have potty mouth..
The day he died I sat down and wept like a baby.

Jun 29, 2017Menglong Youk rated it it was amazing

Brain Droppings is a collection of materials that George Carlin used for his stand-up comedy. Filled with hilarious, thought-provoking, and sometimes silly ideas and stories, this book is perfect to read after a long day at work or school. My favorite part was the story of a tribe leader first introduced Ritual Human Sacrifice; it was a totally new and hilarious piece of writing.
I highly recommend the audiobook version read by the author himself if you want a full Carlin Impact.

In George we trust. Carlin was the master of both summing up, tearing down, and tuning in to humanity's foibles, goofy rules and attitudes, and helping us to examine life and society from a different perspective. The man was brilliant when it came to the nuances of language and how word choice shapes our thoughts and outlooks in life.

Dec 19, 2011Rakan rated it liked it

The usual. Carlin being hilarious and all. I find it hard to rate his books though. I recommend When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? over this one.

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George Denis Patrick Carlin was a Grammy-winning American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and philosopher.
Carlin was especially noted for his political and black humor and his observations on language, psychology, and religion along with many taboo subjects. Carlin and his 'Seven Dirty Words' comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which..more

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“People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.'
If you didn't know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you'd seen.
They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the 'mind adventures' got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren't unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee.'
So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.” — 1892 likes

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“I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It's there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, and a lovely day. There's no mystery, no one asks for money, I don't have to dress up, and there's no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to 'God' are all answered at about the same 50% rate.” — 570 likes

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