Mindsploitation: Asinine Assignments for the Online Homework Cheating Industry Paperback – April 23, 2013

Vernon Chatman has contrived a masterpiece. This is a wonderful book showcasing the ineptitude of offshore homework companies trying to complete completely inane assignments that Chatman provides. There isn't a page in the book without something to make you laugh out loud. A synopsis is impossible, but a few examples may be of assistance.When asked to invent a new human limb for a class called "Human Biological Technologism" the result is the "Peanutclaw," a specialized appendage for cracking open seeds and peanuts. The correspondence that ensues ("What is the peanutclaw's prime directive?") is increasingly bizarre and just gets funnier.For you English majors out there there's a great musing in pseudo-rhyming couplets titled "Poetry of Spite" ("I will remember tickling hair / Of her moustache and loving kiss....")For the Logistics class an assignment in "Advanced Riddle Solvage" requires several very difficult questions to be addressed, not the least of which is "If there is no such thing as death, what effect would this have on the raisin sales industry?" While the answer provided uses faultless logic, it is rather uninsightful, to say the least.In a class named "Culinary Delightmaking" the most obscure and disgusting assignment in the book presents the ultimate difficulty for a budding chef: "Create a recipe using meconium." If you don't know what that is, don't feel bad (but do look it up.) If you do know what it is you'll instantly grasp why it’s impossible to create a dish using it as the main ingredient. Despite this, you will be unable not to laugh through your revulsion.But my favorite assignment of all is for a class ostensibly called "Creative Post-Modern Storywriting 1010101," in which the poor writer is asked to tackle an assignment that is from beyond the fringe: "You must compose an original creative story that is a story within a story within a story about a story within a story about a story about a story. It must constantly collapse into itself and directly reference all five levels. Also, write it in the 51st person." I will just say that the results are hilarious on all five levels and then some.This book is a great choice for anyone, particularly anyone who enjoys academic humor or the works of Ted L. Nancy. It's not a particularly long book, but it may take you a while to read due to having to take frequent breaks for wiping the tears from your eyes from the excessive laughter. "Mindsploitation" is a brilliant idea that was perfectly executed by a very funny guy.

You know how on the album cover for Ozzy Osbourne's "Diary Of A Madman" there’s an insane looking book on the table in the background? Well I'm pretty sure that Mindsploitation is that very same book. What’s that you say? You never owned a copy of “Diary Of A Madman" because your parents wouldn’t let you buy it as they were afraid it was a gateway to you becoming a devil worshipper, but then years later as an adult, you showed them by not only joining the Church of Satanism, but by quickly becoming a high ranking member until you ultimately became disillusioned with the scene when you realized that 95% of the people at church meetings were creepos who either looked like Uncle Fester or Jackie Earle Haley and all they ever wanted to talk about was Renaissance Fairs, property taxes and sodomy laws?Well c’mon dude, you should really go back and check out “Diary Of A Madman”. It’s not Ozzy & Randy’s best work together, but its still a seriously good album. Anyway, back to this ding-dang book review. Reading Mindsploitation is like taking a “Crazy Train” to Chucklesville. No, no, it’s like slipping down a waterside into a river of madness. No, no, it’s like taking a log flume ride into a collection pond of insanity. No, no, its…OK it is exactly like that. Anyway, if you’re a fan of “Wonder Showzen” and you like laughing so hard that people move away from you while you’re reading it on a park bench (even people that know you!), then you should buy this book. But you don't have to take my word for it. Da-dun-dun!!!

This book has made me giggle, chortle, guffaw, and laugh out loudly. I've been a big fan of Wonder Showzen, Xavier:Renagade Angel, and The Heart She Holler and just about every project Vernon Chatman is involved in.This book contains his unique style of wordplay and envelope pushing that has made him one of the funniest writers in America. However, like all his material, there is a bigger statement between the lines.This book can be difficult to get into if you don't like his afforementioned work. You either get it or you don't.If you do, this is the book for you.

This Book is changed my life. Vernon Chatman ( creator of Wonder Showzen and Xavier Renegade angel) is a master at the art of the craft of the making you laugh. Now, I only got through about 2/5ths of the first page, but I had to stop reading indefinably because my enjoyment levels were too high. ( every bit of happiness causes suffering some where else) This book is recommended for professors and collage students who want to be pleasantly distracted from their empty lives.. good book, put it in your funny file-Joth Scuntlo

I'm a big fan of PFFR shows like "Wonder Showzen" and "Xavier: Renegade Angel" so when I heard about this book I had to check it out. The concept is absolutely genius, and Vernon Chatman comes up with some really good essay topics to fit it. The resulting essays are consistently profound and nonsensical. The only issue I have is Vernon Chatman's own emails and responses to the homework helpers comprise most of the bulk of the book, and they tend to run on a bit long and overdo the jokes. I know it's part of the point of the book that these companies will write pretty much anything if you pay them, but I found myself quickly skimming Vernon Chatman's assignments to read the essay. Not a major flaw but definitely something lessened my enjoyment of an otherwise hilariously smart book.

I also, as a reader, felt this experience, and gained much from it. To date, in my life, I have found it to be true that works, or books, such as these, are a great enrichment to the quality of my world views. I can say a hearthy kudos to Vernorn Chaamtn for teaching, or educating, my self and my mind, to never hurt someone's feelings because everyone is useless. It shows the superlative degree of completing the work. Thank's.

Hilarious. Recommended for any fan of Xavier Renegade Angel

This book is brilliant on levels that I will be still discovering when a decrepid liver spotted old man. Luckily I'm far from that so I have many years to pour over this extremly funny book thus releasing endourphins into my blood stream helping to keep my skin lovely, youthful and toight! Books don't get any better than this, I should know I've read nearly 2. Buy it! Go on. Have you bought it yet? No? Well do it now. Done it? Good. Enjoy!

I'm just CRAAAAZZZZYYYYYY about this book. I love PFFR.