Why read National Lampoon's 1964 High School Yearbook?

Book cover of National Lampoon's 1964 High School Yearbook

Book description

In honor of the thirty-ninth reunion of the class of 1964 of C. Estes Kefauver High School in Dacron, Ohio, a new edition of their hilarious yearbook brings back such zany characters as Chuck U. Farley, Maria Teresa Spermatozoa, Purdy "Psycho" Lee Spackle, and Larry Kroger, accompanied by a "Where…

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Ohio

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Funny

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Why read it?

1 author picked National Lampoon's 1964 High School Yearbook as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

David P. Murphy

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This hard-to-find book is a masterpiece and I’m not using the term loosely. Doug Kenney and P.J. O’Rourke were responsible for much of this whip-smart gem. The writers perfectly mock every mundane aspect of much of high school life. (For what it’s worth, I genuinely enjoyed high school, but was aslo painfully aware of the deep-seated screwiness of much of the atmosphere.) If you can find this, snap it up. You won’t regret it.

From David's list on The best books on absurdity (to help you deal with an absurdist world).