Family: The Ties That Bind-- And Gag!

by Erma Bombeck

Book Overview

A cherished family reunion sets the stage of Erma Bombeck's predictably hilarious recollections of raising a family. Her conclusion: you can't live with them, you can't live without them...or can you...'

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070064601
• ISBN13: 9780070064607
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Always Hilarious!!

Erma Bombeck is the best. Family life is challenging, but Erma gives it to you straight...there's comedy in everything. Each of her books shares stories with the others, but from different points of view. If you're up for a good laugh, read this book!

Wonderfully funny!

I grew up reading Erma Bombeck. I have always loved her columns and her books. My parents and I would sit around the dinner table and discuss her columns ~~ but now as a mother and a wife, I have a much better appreciation of Erma's writing. This one is about her kids coming home in 1987 and one of them announced that he's moving back in permanently ~~ and it's a rundown of all the things that family members do. Sometimes, it's funny and sometimes, it's annoying. But what are you going to do? Throw them out on the streets? Erma had me laughing all night while laying in the hospital bed with a sick preschooler. She's been there and I am going through it. It's a honest, refreshing look at parenting and marriage ~~ everyone should read Erma. She gets her points across with humor and statire. I am reading three others of her books ~~ and can't wait to read them. She's the perfect medicine for this housewife! 5-11-06

Bound and Gagged

One of the funniest humor columnists of all time, Erma Bombeck has scored again with this funny snapshot of family life.It's 1987, and all three Bombeck children have come home for a visit (one of whom has decided to make his visit permanent). Not only does Erma provide us with a timeline of the events of this particular weekend, she also delves back into her memories of the years gone by as she routinely attempts to defend her parenting skills (or lack of them) to us.It's been several years since Erma Bombeck passed away. But her books continue to be as funny and relevent today as they were back then. "Family - The Ties That Bind and Gag" is no different.

Erma does it again:)

Just the thought of a family re-union sends Erma Bombeck reliving her family's past. And it is _hilarious_! This is a great book if you ever had or currently have a family or know somebody who has a family. It makes you laugh out loud.

Great for chuckles

I loved this book. She puts all the pressures of raising a family and looking after kids into perspective. And you will chuckle a lot because in her novel you will see glimpses of your own family. Family quirks and eccentricities are universal and I simply cannot think of anybody who could possibly dislike this book. She has a lovely, irreverent sense of humour.