In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks...: . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy

You can get this every day on his blog or feel sophistimicated and read his books I choose both! Amen.

Huge fan of Adam Corolla (I spell his name thus just to needle him), but seeing him trying to be funny in print really clarifies what he's good at and what he's not good at.See, I come to Adam for delivery -- the way he words things, his analogies, his timing, the sound of his voice, etc. I don't come to him for substance. Why would I? I don't think the guy has any ideas about anything that I or most other people don't. If you're thinking that becoming a husband and father has subtilized his mind, you'd be wrong there. But he manages to express so well what you believe and what has aggrieved you that his harangues are always welcome.But it can't simply be an unrestrained whine. For me, at least, Adam was at his funniest when he was on Loveline. Sure, with his podcast he can talk even longer, but the thing that made the Loveline so funny was that you had Pinsky sitting there trying to take things seriously with Adam derailing the conversation with an extended tirade about the Burbank P.D. That was funny. But, as in this book, if there's no sober-minded Drew character to stop him . . . well, it can get trying.I've always felt that the reason Drew and Adam worked so well together was that Adam, knowingly or not, appealed to the coarse, Dionysian aspect of you, while Drew's moral compass appealed to the reasoned Apollo in you. Both were necessary, yet neither of them seem to work well independently. Left to himself, Drew would eventually start to drone on about various recondite pharmaceutical matters. But leave Adam to himself, and he'd simply gripe and gripe, as he does here, until you're fairly parched for someone to get him back on track. But since that doesn't happen in this book, it does get a bit cloying after a few pages.In all, this book is not as good as I was hoping. For hard-core fans of Adam, there's actually very little new material here: merely rewarmed tirades from his Loveline years. Really, I would be hard-pressed to think of a trademark Carolla hobbyhorse that's not in this book. (Oh wait. Got one: people who call aircraft carriers "floating cities.") If you're the kind of guy that's gone around downloading and listening to all those Lovelines, there's going to be almost nothing in this book you haven't heard before. Which is unfortunate: as a transcription, the stuff is a lot less funny.Worse, it seems a lot less intelligent when written down. Adam's tirades, heard late at night, seemed like some down-home wisdom, but in the blaring light of print, they seem much cruder and more forgettable. To the point where you realize this is basically a book for guys to read on the can.Something else I find a bit off-putting is that large sections of the book don't sound like Adam's voice, which is what I think you want. If you watch the videos attached to this Amazon page, you'll see why: Adam had a writer working with him. He would basically pace around the room and rant, and the writer would later reassemble everything into something coherent, something with a progression. That is to say, something literate. But that's the problem: Adam's rants pinball from topic to topic, going from the TiVo power button to Maxine Waters, and then back to complaining about Anderson. But this book complains about stuff in an ordered, cogent, on-topic way. In the end it simply doesn't sound like the Adam I know.As for the actual subject matter of the book, there are no surprises there. It's nothing that you can't guess from just glancing at the cover of the book: we've lost our martial virtue, we've become a nation of sissies, we're slaves to our own cowardice. As for the causes -- or consequences -- that's not Adam's strong suit. Just the complaining.The bottom line on this, though, is that I recommend it. It made me laugh as often as his radio show did, which is to say often. Even though I have heard almost everything in here a zillion times before. Perhaps you should buy it out of loyalty to Adam, by way of appreciation for all the free laughs you've gotten from him over the years.For my part, the debt is more than just for the laughs. Despite his reputation as being colossally immature, Adam sure helped me do a lot of growing up. Weird as that sounds.

I'll admit, I've been an Adam Carolla fan since I heard him on Loveline and saw him on the Man Show. I was baffled when "The Adam Carolla Project" didn't turn into a multi-season show. This guy is a real man, which based off what is spewed across the various types of media in front of me, I'll assume is pretty damn rare in Hollywood these days. While it's easy to see the fruits of his labor have finally paid off for him financially, it's refreshing to see a guy who earned his level of a lifestyle still continue to do what he knows how to do instead of become another pompous a-hole with a checkbook sitting around in white shorts and dock shoes smoking a damn cigar with a sweater draped over his shoulders. Instead of crying about how hard it is to work x days a week and be rich, the man encourages people to keep working despite success and the guy leads by example in my opinion.He's funny because he's not afraid of being politically incorrect, but I doubt he sat down saying "How many topics can I talk about to sound politically incorrect." He's simply got the balls to publicly say what the few remaining real men in this world say only when they're inside their comfort zone, that is to their buddies. It's refreshing to see someone being honest by saying that he'd rather have been in the parking lot handing out cigars while his kids were being born, why white people with nothing else to worry about in life make up the majority of people who participate in fantasy sports, and why only a self entitled clown says they "rescued" a dog when they merely picked the cutest one out of the caged confines of the shelter.I titled this review as such to let you know it's worth buying a second copy to give to a buddy because in honesty, the minute you start into it you're going to want to laugh about something you read with a buddy at the bar and few of us are capable of capturing the comedy written on these pages. In the days of pirated everything, I'm sure there are a hundred sites you can steal the book from digitally out there, but I'll simply say you're not doing yourself justice going that route. I bought the paperback and I'm going to break one of Ace's rules by giving it to a friend, but only because I'm ordering the hardcover for my shelf so I can enjoy this rapidly vanishing brand of humor and honesty for years to come.Before you self righteous book critics take another attempt at slamming the book or even my review of it, remember one thing; Ace hasn't spent his life reading books let alone writing them, he's not going for a Pulitzer prize, and finally I'm not claiming to know much more than the right way to spell literary genius. I'm a damn guy who puts in his 50 hours a week, doesn't piss money away on lottery tickets looking for the big freebie from the imaginary man in the sky, and enjoys listening to Carolla's humor as suck down a beer or two while I wrench on a car or fix up my house during the 2-3 hours of free man time I'm lucky enough to have each week. If you haven't checked out his podcasts, you're missing out on the entertainment value of any chapter of this book free to your ears (and eyes) on a daily basis.

As it turns out, the way society is going it looks like it could have been titled 'In 20 years we'll all be chicks"! Very honest and funny observations of human nature. A lot of the rants are repeated on his podcast regularly, but that's part of what keeps making it so funny, it's all true and it's happening!

Doesn't deserve even one star. The completely unfunny work of a bitter ranter, right-wing misogynist. Obviously Carolla is hugely popular so my minority opinion won't matter or influence him or most potential buyers of this book.

Wer Louis C.K. mag ist hier genau richtig. Beissende Texte über das Leben, wie wir es täglich erleben. Viel Amüsantes, einige Lacher und durchgängig unterhaltsam. Wenn es um Mitmenschen und Politik geht, ist der Autor in Hochform. Bei den Kapiteln über Musik und Filme kann man aus Geschmacksgründen nicht streiten und nimmt die Aufreger einfach so hin. Diese Buch macht wirklich Spass...

Adam at his finest! This was incredibly entertaining. I've heard Adam on Howard Stern and he's brilliant, so I figured I couldn't go wrong ordering both of his audio CD's. He does so well with this, it's more like a comedy CD rather than an audio book. I've now started to listen to Not Taco Bell Material, and it's brilliant as well. Both, highly recommended!!!!

Super amazing book!