Mondo Canuck: A Canadian pop culture odyssey

by Geoff Pevere and Greig Dymond

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132630885
• ISBN13: 9780132630887
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Canada
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.8" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Pop-Canuckisms for a modern culture...

Got this book when it first came out, expecting it to be 90% filler and 10% interesting. I was pleasantly suprised. Pevere and Dymond did their homework... either that, or they've overdosed on Candian pop culture since they were knee-high to grasshoppers. I found myself chuckling lots as I flipped through the pages of the book, and occassionally laughed out loud, long and hard. With chapter titles such as "Space Oddity: How William Shatner Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Future" and "Porky's (the movie): Canada Pigs Out," the reader can be dazzled - and baffled - by the trivia, humour, and obscure facts'n'fallacies of the Canadian contribution to our present culture and entertainment intake. I recommend this read, if you've a slightly skewered perception of the world, are a massive pop-culture trivia fan (there's lots in this book you'll be interested in learning!), and want a fresh view of what Canada and Canadians are about. Too bad it's out of print, but maybe if there's enough interest, the publisher will do a new print-run of the book, and Pevere and Dymond will add some new tid-bits of fascinating info (geee...... Celine's FINALLY pregnant!) in a post-script chapter of Canada coming into the new millennium. Entertaining read.