It Takes a Village Idiot : A Memoir of Life After the City
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Product NameIt Takes a Village Idiot : A Memoir of Life After the City
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TitleIt Takes a Village Idiot : A Memoir of Life After the City
ISBN0743218795
Author(s)Jim Mullen
Release Date16 July, 2002, 2002-07-16
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Num of Pages224
Num. of Items1
EAN9780743218795
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1 Star Rating  "City folk turned mutant country killers"2007-05-13
- Reviewed By DM from ORegon
I was enjoying It Takes a Village Idiot up until page 183 when suddenly, outta no where, Jim & Sue turn into cruel vicious killers.

"Patrolling the perimeter (of their garden) one day" Sue spotted a woodchuck down by the barn and yelled for me to come help. I grabbed the first thing I could find--my five-iron-and ran down there.
We had him cornered and I started clubbing it. It was like something out of Goodfellas. Each smack made a sickening thump, but the thing wouldn't stop twitching. I didn't want it to suffer (yeah right. can you believe that?), but I couldn't seem to finish it off.
Finally I came down with a mighty stroke right on its head. Woodchuck blood splattered all over me, my shirt, my pants, my face. But it stopped moving."

I don't know about you but that makes me ill. How cold blooded can you be? To physically beat something to death. Woodchucks = Marmots = Groundhogs
All they had to do was lower that fence they put up around the garden (to keep deer out), a foot or two below ground. Where's their brains. That's what I did. It was plain common sense. When you see something digging under your fence--lower it!
Heck! with the money they had they could of poured a two foot concrete wall below their fencing. I used rocks and junked bricks.

Then on page 206 there's this
"On the way to the store, we passed a fly-covered deer carcass on the shoulder of the road. Sue looks at it unsympathetically and says, One down, three hundred thousand to go." " Ouuwee where'd she get all this hate from? What an ugly person she turned out to be.

Then they turned into arrogant rich country snobs, belittling everyone who does not live/think as they now do. What an about face. In the beginning Jim and Sue Mullen seemed like OK people but in the end you see that they really aren't.

 
3 Star Rating  "Light, fun read for the most part. Inconsistent, I thought."2006-11-23
- Reviewed By Teddy Bird from Deer Creek Mesa, CO
OK, so, you know before you open the book that city dweller finds peace and happiness in the heartland after many poignant and sweet things happen to him to sway him. So he starts out being the unwilling partner in this move outside of NYC, and gradually he comes to love it in the countryside.

But throughout the book, I felt like every time he was gradually starting to sway toward the country life, he'd then turn around and say something to the effect of how he's only doing this for his wife and that if he had his druthers, he'd live in their Manhattan apt instead. And it wasn't in a sweet sort of way, as though he were battling his own feelings. It was more like the chapters were not in chronological order. That was my beef #1.

Beef #2 was the story about the author's completely gruesome and totally gratuitous, hateful torture of a woodchuck that was a pest in their garden. This, after he went on and on about how he and his wife went to pains to use only cruelty-free traps in their garden. It was just so gross and nasty and it made me feel so sad and dark.

Otherwise, I would say it was a good, very quick read. There were funny parts and it was decent (if a bit snarky) writing. And I love any book that has chucking it all as its main theme.
 
5 Star Rating  "It Takes a Sense of Humor"2005-05-12
- Reviewed By FLbeachbum from Ormond Beach, Florida United States
I grabbed this book because the title made me think it would be witty and fun. What do you know - for once I was right! "It Takes A Village Idiot" hilariously describes the changes in the author's life after his wife decides to buy an old farmhouse in the Catskills so she'll be busy enough to quit smoking. And so begins the author's introduction to rural life, as this NYC couple embarks on the first of many weekend drives upstate.

Mr. Mullen describes his gradual transformation from city mouse to country mouse with laughs on every page, with subjects ranging from shopping at Home Depot to Flatlander "guest insensitivity". What makes it delightful is that he's able to do so without snobbery or ridicule. His approach remains good-natured throughout, and his descriptions are easy to visualize.

Wherever one lives, "Village Idiot" is likely to make the reader take a renewed look at the surroundings. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this book to anyone.
 
5 Star Rating  "A great satire of "both" New Yorks"2003-08-29
- Reviewed By Anonymous
As most people living in New York State will tell you, there are actually "two" New Yorks--the one everyone knows about (the city and its surrounding metro area) and that vast chunk of land east of the Hudson River known as Upstate New York. I grew up in the latter, and found Jim Mullen's memoir an extremely enjoyable satire of life in both rural Upstate New York and urban Manhattan. He pokes fun at both rural dwellers and closed-minded Manhattanites who are so sheltered they've never even been to Brooklyn. NYC and Upstate have always had a strange, if somewhat strained, relationship, and Mullen illustrates this perfectly through his humorous tale of the difficult transition between city life and country life.

And besides the humor, I was touched by the book's ode to simple country life. Underneath all the sarcasm lays a touching tribute to rural life, and a great appreciation for the farmers who work the land. I've always taken that sort of thing for granted, and now I have a renewed appreciation for my homeland. The book is both an entertaining and rewarding read.

 
4 Star Rating  "Funny"2002-10-28
- Reviewed By Anonymous
This book just oozes sarcasm. No, wait, it GUSHES...Mullen is the writer of the "Hot Sheet" in Entertainment Weekly magazine. As you can imagine, this isn't exactly serious literature, but if you need a break from everything, this book is perfect. It's only about 200 easy-to-read pages, and there's a belly laugh awaiting you at about every third page (and several chuckles in between). Mullen, a die-hard Manhattanite, goes through a sea change in his life when his wife buys a farm in the Catskills "because she quit smoking and needed something to do with her hands."
 
5 Star Rating  "Very enjoyable!"2002-03-12
- Reviewed By Anonymous
I picked this book up after having read a few stinkers, and I felt so grateful because it's truly enjoyable. Jim Mullen is very funny, his observations and comments are so comical, and he often had me laughing out loud. He also handles some more serious, or sad, issues with a touching sensitivity that doesn't stray from the wry humor, but makes his heartfelt point (without beating us over the head, thank you). Despite the premise, this story is an original. Love his wife. Love his neighbors. Hope he is working on a follow-up as we speak.
 
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