The Sound of One Thigh Clapping: Haiku for a Thinner You

by Meredith Clair

Book Overview

The rigors of Ornish, reduced to seventeen syllables. Weight Watchers in three lines of enigmatic verse. The paradoxof Atkins-shed pounds while wolfing down cheese, eggs, and meat-distilled to a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761131426
• ISBN13: 9780761131427
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Length: 123 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.1" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

It IS a humor book, not a how to!!

Why would anyone interpret this book as a how-to, when it is so clearly a humor book? Oy vey! This is the funniest book I've read in a long time. It's about time someone sent up dieting culture. If I read one more how-to diet book, I'm gonna barf!

The Sound of One Thigh Clapping

This is so funny you'll want to keep flipping through to find more quips. It's a must have stocking stuffer. whether you're "stuffed" or not.

You'll laugh your love handles right off!!!

This is the most clever send-up of our obsession with weight and beauty to come along in a long, long time -- and she misses not a single diet, food item, or weight loss method! It's laugh-out-loud hilarious! Weight Watchers, Scarsdale Diet, Grapefruits, Diet Pills, Gastric Bypass -- they're all in there. What makes it even more brilliant? The haikus were actually written in the tradition of Basho. These are real haikus, not knock-knock jokes broken down into a 5-7-5 meter. And the cleverness of measurement of verse is especially cool considering the theme of the book -- counting points, counting calories, counting pounds. All in all, a perfectly executed piece of writing, and a perfect gift for anyone and everyone.