An excellent read: A great book. Even the little "news" tidbits they usually have on the front page of their site, in the sidebars that are not archived, are all there.

A slight gripe: most of the articles are spread over two - and sometimes three - pages. These pages are often not adjacent (e.g. article from p.48 is continued on p.50), so you often have to skip all over the place while other articles distract you.

Another gripe is that this is the only complete volume :). We need more!

You've got to read the articles!

Deliciously sick sense of humor. The Onion is so refreshing in the midst of such a PC climate. If you are not familiar with The Onion Newspapers and have skin thicker than that of (what else?) an onion, do acquaint yourself with their work.

So far it's excellent, naturally, as brilliant and insightful and dead-on-the-money as anything else out there and then some, but I'm reserving the upgrade to that stubborn fifth star because it doesn't quite, well, warm the soul, you know? I always feel a little better informed and a lot more amused after I read The Onion, but also a little snarkier, and I'm just not sure that's a good thing.

I read this while I was working at Borders, honestly, I love the Onion, they're funny, but also the one news source that would print the same story over and over to drive home the point that something keeps happening when it could so easily be stopped.

I enjoyed it, as expected, but some of the stuff has not stood the test of time, there were a lot of pop culture references that I was never going to get, and some of the articles just weren't all that interesting or funny at times.

Potentially interesting as a view into the lives of people 2000-2001. Unfortunately, those years are not actually interesting, mostly just dull and depressingly futile. The satire is absolutely spot-on, which I do have to commend the Onion for, and they get right to the meat of a very unpleasant time. My problem is that it's a time I don't care to relive.

It works best to read this as the immediate 21st century follow-up to the magnificent "Onion" volume "Our Dumb Century". Hilarious from start to finish, but equally incisive and profound...the "God Clarifies No Kill Rule" story from the 9/11 issue walks the line of this particular set of characteristics perfectly.

Pretty good. I like the headlines better than the articles sometimes, and some of them are very, very wrong.

A bright spot in a sad world. The Onion helps us laugh at ourselves.

A horoscope or headline MUST make you laugh in this book, or you must be one of those born critics...

I believe this is the one my brother owns but I am not sure. The famous Onion, their satirical articles over the years receive so much attention they often get confused as real news items leaving people reeling at said political party at their sudden inability to check the source of a story.

While all of that might be amusing to people what is important to me is the writing. I have trouble remembering any of the jokes within this hefty book. I do have memories of laughing at them but the only one that comes to mind is one where the punch line was the f-word over and over again, so I can definitely say for certain there is no real comedic quality within these pages.

For anyone quick to see an easy joke buy or if needed borrow this one. But to anyone only curious who purchases it I am sorry to say you now have an oversized paper weight.