Blount: 75 books
Alphabet Juice
The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Ali G: How many words does you know?
Noam Chomsky: Normally, humans, by maturity, have tens of thousands of them.
Ali G: What is some of 'em?
—Da Ali G Show
Did you know that both mammal and matter derive from baby talk? Have you noticed how wince makes you wince? Ever wonder...
Save Room for Pie
Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Our best-laid plans will yield to fate.
And we will say, “We lived. We ate.”
Roy Blount Jr. is one of America’s most cherished comic writers. He’s been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and his books have been called everything from “a work of art” (Robert W. Creamer, The...
by Roy Blount Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
An eclectic collection from Roy Blount Jr., master of American humor writing
I’ll tell you what kind of book I believe in: one that makes people say, at first sight, what the first person who ever saw a camel must have said: “What in the world is that?” And then, after a while, “Yet...
The Blount Report
NASCAR's Most Overrated & Underrated Drivers, Cars, Teams, and Tracks
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
While fans continue to debate the relative merits of their favorite drivers, ESPN.com's premier motor sports writer Terry Blount now brings some needed clarity and perspective to America's biggest spectator sport, rating drivers, teams, cars, and tracks, and while bluntly letting readers know which...
by Roy Blount Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
An indispensible guide to southernness from revered humorist and unapologetic curmudgeon Roy Blount Jr.
When a simple-talking, peanut-warehousing, grit-eating Southern Baptist Cracker got himself nominated for president of the United States in 1976, it set Roy Blount Jr. to thinking—about...
Hail, Hail, Euphoria!
Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Bestselling author Roy Blount Jr. tells the story of theclassic Marx Brothers wartime satire Duck Soup. As always, Blount isinformed yet informal, tongue-in-cheek yet tempered, providing the perfectvoice to recount the irreverent antics of Harpo, Chico, Groucho, and Zeppo. Readers of HarpoSpeaks,...
by Beverly Blount
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The Blount Guide A logical phonetic manual for: 1. - Parents and teachers of reading to small children. 2. - Foreigners who wish to pronounce English correctly with instructions in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese and German. 3. - Spelling teachers. 4. -.Home schoolers 5. - Teachers of children...
Alphabetter Juice
or, The Joy of Text
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Fresh-squeezed Lexicology, with Twists
No man of letters savors the ABC's, or serves them up, like language-loving humorist Roy Blount Jr. His glossary, from ad hominy to zizz, is hearty, full bodied, and out to please discriminating palates coarse and fine. In 2008, he celebrated the gists,...
by Roy Blount Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
A funny and incisive collection of essays on oddities of life in the 1980s, from one of America’s most cherished humorists
First published in 1985, Not Exactly What I Had In Mind is Roy Blount Jr.’s smart and witty examination of the era’s most glaring absurdities—from the ever-growing...
Words of Encouragement 2
It Ain't over Until God Has the Last Say!
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
I Marlice Blount(Marcy),was born to George Blount 2 and to the late Betty Jean BaCote. I am one of six siblings. Words Of Encouragement 2 It Aint Over Until God Has The Last Say, is my second book. I use Words Of Encouragement for my title, because while reading my poems to others, they let me know...
BROKEN CHAIN
A Story of Bloody Tangipahoa
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
In 1909, twisted feuds spawn murder in Tangipahoa Parish, also known as "Bloody Tangipahoa," Louisiana's wild land where shotgun-pistol packing outlaws not only hide in swamps and dense forests, but also command the corridors of law-making and keeping places. Charged with murder and held...
About Three Bricks Shy of a Load
A Highly Irregular Lowdown on the Year the Pittsburgh Steelers Were Super but Missed the Bowl
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Now celebrating its fortieth anniversary, Roy Blount Jr.’s classic account of the 1973 Pittsburgh Steelers—a team on the cusp of once-in-a-generation greatness
The Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s are mentioned in any conversation about the greatest dynasties in NFL history. A year before...
Fanatical Prospecting
The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text, and Cold Calling
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Ditch the failed sales tactics, fill your pipeline, and crush your number
Fanatical Prospecting gives salespeople, sales leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives a practical, eye-opening guide that clearly explains the why and how behind the most important activity in sales and business development—prospecting.
The...
Sales EQ
How Ultra High Performers Leverage Sales-Specific Emotional Intelligence to Close the Complex Deal
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The New Psychology of Selling
The sales profession is in the midst of a perfect storm. Buyers have more power—more information, more at stake, and more control over the sales process—than any time in history. Technology is bringing disruptive change at an ever-increasing pace, creating...