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| Family Guy: Stewie's Guide to World Domination | 
| Author: Steve Callaghan Publisher: Harper Paperbacks Category: Book
List Price: $14.95 Buy Used: $0.01 You Save: $14.94 (100%)
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Avg. Customer Rating: 12 reviews Sales Rank: 111776
Media: Paperback Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 112 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6 Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0060773219 Dewey Decimal Number: 818.602 EAN: 9780060773212 ASIN: 0060773219
Publication Date: April 26, 2005 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: An acceptable used ex-library copy. Library markings. Pages are somewhat worn. Cover worn with some creases. Worn edges and corners. Binding somewhat weak and cracked.
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Product Description
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 tie–in book authored by one of the show's hilarious lead writers and animators! At first sight, the Griffens may seem like a normal blue collar family from Quonochontaug Rhode Island, but Peter (the family's loutish dad), Brian (the erudite, martini–swilling pet dog) and Stewie (the evil toddler son) set them apart from all others. Now Stewie––a true baby genius and the most popular of the Griffen clan––speaks out. Having been hell bent on achieving world domination ever since he escaped the cursed ovarian Bastille he was incarcerated in for nine grueling months, he has finally decided that in order to rule the world we live in one must first understand it. Herewith are his musings on family, love, parenting, preschool, work, pop culture, politics and more. If only we knew then what Stewie knows now, adults everywhere could have defeated their mother's matriarchal tyranny and toppled the "gynocracy" she ruled over . . .and god knows what else! This book is for the insufferable child in us all, eager to buck the ways of the old guard or just eager for a laugh.
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Surprisingly Good October 18, 2007 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... January 24, 2006 5 out of 9 found this review helpful
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...
It gave me a few chuckles October 29, 2005 20 out of 22 found this review helpful
Overall, this book is nothing to write home about. Don't get me wrong now - I'm a huge Family Guy fan, and I love Stewie. Steve Callaghan - a producer and writer for Family Guy from its very first season - did a great job writing this book as though it was written by Stewie, and at times it's quite amusing. Unfortunately, Stewie's sarcastic and misanthropic wit isn't half as funny on paper as it is coming from Seth McFarlane's mouth and with his brilliant delivery, and most of the jokes here are stale and predictable - quite a lot of them were actually recycled from the show. More than that I was disappointed by the artwork - which is all snatched directly from the Family Guy episodes, hardly any new material was made freshly for the book.
In direct comparison with Bart Simpson's Guide to Life, Stewie's Guide to World Domination is less an original work and more an excuse to suck a few more bucks from the show's fans. Perhaps Family Guy just doesn't have enough years behind it to be as mythological as the Simpsons; or perhaps the book could have been funnier had Seth himself written it, but I doubt that would have made much difference. Stewie just isn't that funny on paper. Mind you, the devoted Family Guy will want to add it to his merchandise collection (I'd like to use this opportunity to point out that I'm wearing my Brian Griffin boxer shorts as I'm writing these very lines) but keep your expectations low. And for anyone else, you'll probably get very little out of it.
Whitty and Humerous October 26, 2005 4 out of 28 found this review helpful
If you are thinking of entering world domination this toddler can get you on the right foot!!
Stewie is the best! October 21, 2005 2 out of 25 found this review helpful
very funny....a perfect addition to our collection of Family Guy dvds
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