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   1 June 2001

Kaz Cooke's Living with Crazy Buttocks
Jade Irene van der Lei

   
 
  Kaz Cooke. Living with Crazy Buttocks. Penguin Books Australia, 2001. RRP: $A19.95.      
 
Oh all right, I'll admit it. I wrote this book because, like most authors, I had a tacky ambition to write a book with only one thought per page.
Introduction to The Little Book of Stress by Kaz Cooke 1996
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  And she did, again and again, with The Little Book of Dumb Feng Shui (1999), The Little Book of Beauty (2001), The Little Book of Crap (2001) and The Little Book of Household Madness (2001). But one thought per page could not satisfy such a satirical author, especially when there were so many other self-help books out there to make fun of.
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  There was a simple answer. Write a book with many thoughts on many pages. She did, and called it Living With Crazy Buttocks. This book is another comical milestone in the in the career of Kaz Cooke, journalist, cartoonist, well-known author of Real Gorgeous (1994) and self-proclaimed popcorn seller. Moving away from her previous titles such as The Modern Girl's Guide To Sex (1989) and the Gorgeous phenomenon, which have offered an exclusive audience hilarious advice in specialised areas, Cooke sets her sights at the entire self-help industry.
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