Ali Dubyiah and the Forty Thieves: A Contemporary Fable

by John Egerton

Told from a vantage point of long ago and far away, Ali Dubyiah and the Forty Thieves reconstructs-from the recently discovered journals of Ibrahim Barzouni-the tale of the ruler George W. "Dubyiah"... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588382028
• ISBN13: 9781588382023
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: NewSouth Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Puts Dubyiah in his place.

Thorouhly enjoyable. Author has a great insite to the world today and a great sense of humor.

The Arabian Nights has nothing on this!

Excellent critique of Bush, Inc. Witty, incisive and thorough. By the time you finish this book you are in tears for our beloved country and what has happened to us under the rule of Bush and his cronies.

Political Jest

Egerton has made it possible to laugh at a serious and seemingly unsolvable national problem with his satire of the current political scene. His characters' names are particularly cogent, but his analysis of the foibles of the administration are also keen, and, from my point of view, on target. I don't know how a right-winger would look at it.

If you've ever scratched your head and wondered how in the hell we've gotten ourselves into such a g

Friends just gave me this book and I want to throw my arms around John Egerton and hug him with gratitude. Finally, finally, someone has taken all of the facts of this baffooning president and his miserable band of boy-ohs and called a spade a spade. His facts are impeccable, his sequencing strips all of the republican hooligans, rouges, and scheming thieves from their mysterious cover of rightousness and religiosity and makes it clear that the king has no clothes on. The book is funny as hell, and while it's a hoot to read it is deadly serious. I am ordering a dozen copies and am handing them out to everyone on my Christmas list. This is a gem. John Egerton for President! Read it! And then go out and vote damn it. I wish I could give it ten stars!!!