Family Guy: Stewie's Guide to World Domination

by Steve Callaghan

Book Overview

For the first time ever a cancelled show has been resurrected on the basis of its cult following in syndication, on the internet and on DVD (Over 2.2 million DVDs sold to date ) and we've got the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060773219
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: It Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.1" x 0.2" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

A must for any Family Guy animated series fan

Even though Stewie Griffin him self is only 1 year old I would recommend readers of this book be at least 12 and older for explicit the content written. Ok. In case the sarcasim was a bit misleading this is classic Family Guy. Filthy language and shocking dialog concentrated from the mouth and mind of the youngest quick witted Griffin family member. Stewie will school you with a perspective sharpened from a dozen months of miscalculated matriarcal assassinations.

Surprisingly Good

I never thought that adaptations of TV shows onto books was a good idea, because they lack the full experience that TV brings forward. But this book along with the other Family Guy books deliver that same effect. The book was well written and stayed true to Stewie's character, when reading you can't help but hear Stewie in his English accent reciting it in your head. You can consider this a 90+ page rant about the world, and who better to interpret the world than Stewart Gilligan Griffin? Some good laughs, it is a must buy for any true Family Guy fan. I've purchased every FG book to date and have yet to be disappointed (with the exception of Stewie's: School of Hard Knocks Book, $10 for a book where the consumer would have to write up more than the author did, it sucked, but life goes on) Buy this book.

If you like Stewie...

My whole family loves Family Guy, so I bought this as a gift for my father (who normally doesn't read at all). Come Christmas morning, he couldn't put it down, and the laughs just never ended. Haven't read it yet myself, but I'm sure it must be hilarious...

AbFab

Oh, it was delightful. Though, I am a bit preturbed that I was not consulted for possible material. I found the remarks about the fat man splendid. Long story short, regarding the book: Please sir, may I have some more? rprebel

Stewie Griffen: The Winter of Spengler's Discontent

Oswald Spengler predicted a protracted winter in The Decline of The West. Spengler wasn't alone in his depiction of a distopian society where fashion reigns over utility, luck is dominant, bureaucracy squelches progress and the rich have a firm hold on the reigns of an incipient global culture. Spengler was one of the first to be taken seriously. Stewie's Guide to WORLD DOMINATION [sic] is a ray of sunshine for a winter day of our decline. In Spengler's seasonal taxonomy of decline, winter is the final phase. Spengler writes that one cue of a culture in winter is an increasingly authoritative government. In an authoritarian government, clearly stating your perception is not a fiscally sustainable option. "...if I were to confess to knowing that the entire enterprise is a sham, then that delicious stream of cold, hard cash that appears under my pillow following the loss of a tooth gets suddenly cut off, doesn't it?" --Stewie Griffin Transcribed by Steve Callaghan Spengler separates culture from civilization. Yes, the two are intertwined, but culture reflects the people while civilization reflects the aspirations of global domination, requiring increasingly authoritarian leaders who represent power rather than being powerful on their own. A culture of war masks itself in fashion and subverts education into specialized academic philosophy with obvious discrepancies from reality. Stewie calls out that the basis of American education, the three Rs doesn't represent three Rs: Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic. Stewie suggests that we might be better served by the acronym W.A.R. "there's no country that likes `W.A.R. more than our own...blame the Boss Hoggs of the world who got the whole enterprise off on the wrong foot with this `thre Rs' nonsense." --Stewie Griffin Spengler predicted a focus on lavish sport entertainment as the final cues of the closing of culture and the domination of civilization, where work looses meaning for the affluent as sports becomes the substitute for meaning in one's life. Stewie deftly reveals both of these cues at once as he discusses a typical civilization workplace. "you are rotting your brain...find yourself having to alternately ask and then answer the terribly probing and provocative question, `Did you have a nice weekend?' forty-seven different times. And let's face it: Despite the fact that most of the replies should fall along the lines of, `Well, I spent most of Saturday and Sunday trying to ignore the loveless marriage and spoiled brats I've surrounded myself with while being tranquilized by the narcotic of back-to-back-to-back NFL football in order to keep myself from pondering the very real possibility that I might be gay.'" --Stewie Griffin Stewie is a ray of light, warming our winter day. Spengler holds that winter is devoid of symbolic art. In a civilization's winter art is replaced by a meaningless fashion dialogue. Stewie staves off the meaninglessness of our encroaching civilizatio