Iron Joe Bob

by Joe Bob Briggs

Book Overview

The real founder of the Men's Movement is Joe Bob Briggs, famous drive-in movie reviewer and Texas sage, who now publishes his long-awaited volume on relationships among the "assorted sexes". This... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871135531
• ISBN13: 9780871135537
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A guide to life......Of sorts

Joe Bob's best yet Joe Bob tells you his guide to life with the story of a young Brave meeting Iron Joe Bob and his spear. Joe Bob also gives his opinion of everything from Coffie shops to the best way to get "Nookie" Check it out.

Parody- Raised to an Art Form

If 'Iron John' was the iconic journey into the masculine, 'Iron Joe Bob' is the journey to the base of the masculine tailbone. Not only is Briggs' parody genuinely funny(whether or not you have read, 'Iron John'), but he does match the original author's work, image for image and metaphor for metaphor. The difference is that rather than working with deep and brooding images, Briggs makes his point(enjoy the pun) using deep and...uh...erect images. If you took 'Iron John' very seriously, please do put a bit of space between that read and this one. You need to retreat briefly from the woods in order to recapture your sense of humor. No, we are not laughing at you, we're laughing with you. Once you can use your drum to set your beer on and start a fire with your corn-nut breath, you are ready to take on 'Iron Joe Bob.' Pick up your Wooly Spear and get to work. The book is an entertaining and surprisingly literary read, rife with classic devices and characters that we have all met on our various journeys. Briggs uses them, familiar scenarios and skillful wit to hone his point again and again. Enjoy the forest.

Slay Your Inner Weenie !

Our greatest living scholar researches a voluminous amount of technical and arcane texts-- Robert Graves's "The White Goddess", including the footnotes in Welsh, being a case in point---and concludes that our only hope to recover our Ancient Missing Spear and become authentic men, is to worship the One Great Breasted Earth Mother.( Which in his fantasies, for reasons that he'd rather not dwell upon, is named Monique.)Lovingly dedicated to "Bobby Bly" this book is the REAL story of "The Men's Movement" ! How thousands of milksops, sissies, jellyfish, doormats, Star Trek re-run addicts living in their parent's basements, 99lb weaklings and other assorted [people] have "Slayed Their Inner Weenies " by gettting in touch with their Missing Spear through yelling, drum beating, ripping their shirts off, and other toxic-freeing ceremonies at one of Joe Bob's legendary "I'M NOT A WIMP, GOLDANG IT!" weekends....Re-discovering Indigenous Manhood Initiatory Rituals (i.e; "Get a Job " Chapter 23) Joe Bob takes us on a mythically charged journey of self discovery through cosmic archetypes hitherto never explored. Five stars are not enough.

Its the ultimate of American Comedy today.

Joe Bob Briggs is the definite source of whats going on in today's society. He's got his finger on the pulse of reality. My advice to you and to quote the great Mr. Briggs at the same time is to definitely "CHECK IT OUT". If you watch Joe Bob on Monster Vision I thourghally recommend that you read this book TODAY!!!!! I've read it 4 times in a 2 month span of time. ITS AWESOME!!!!! JOE BOB RULES!!!!

What A Great Book

This book is one of the witteist while sometimes innapropriate and funny books that I have read. It faces the problems of the modern man and kicks it in the privates and tells it to **** off.