Gaaaaaarbaaaaaage ( )

How do you even review books like this in 2020? Typical right-wing drivel, all anecdote and opinion with no factual documentation to back up any claims, focused on how American culture is being slowly destroyed by the evil Left. If you believe what Bill is selling, you aren't going to be dissuaded, and if you aren't a Fox News adherent, you aren't likely to read his print version. Simplistic trash written for lazy, gullible minds. We'll do it live!!!! ( )

To be honest, I don't why the heck I read this. I must have been in an extremely masochistic mood when I checked it out from the local library. If subjecting myself to pain was my ultimate goal that afternoon, this book certainly did not disappoint. It was painful to read all the way through.

This book is even more painful than his t.v. show. On television O'Reilly is able to mask his vast stupidity by raising his voice and screaming at everyone and everything within a two-mile radius of his anchor desk. Unfortunately for him, the "scream at them so they don't see how dumb I am" strategy cannot be employed between the covers of a book.

The most ridiculous thing in American Life is that this simpleton gets books published. Even more ridiculous . . . idiots like me who wasted their time reading it.

If you are one of these people who absolutely needs a fix of stale received-wisdom and molten-hot liberalism disguised as raging, foaming-at-the-mouth conservatism, I suggest you skip this book and get your fix of Bill "Oh, Really?" straight from the source on FOX. At least the screaming contains some element of entertainment. ( )

Love the book and love Bill O'Reilly. He scares the pants off a lot of people, though. ( )

Sort of like the show, except without the occasional interesting guest (read: Dennis Miller) or the fun of watching O'Reilly shout over somebody. It's mostly a bunch of variations on "Why, back when I was a kid...!" It is interesting to note that at this point, O'Reilly despised Al Sharpton; that changed by the time the next book rolled out, and now he's pretty much a Factor regular. ( )