On that note (The True Story of the Whole World), a really funny book to read is "The Boomer Bible", by R.F. Laird.
I bought it when it came out in 1991. It's a humorous history of the world written in biblical format. It's NOT a religious book at all.
The title, along with the lenticular image of a hand on the cover which opens and closes as you shift your viewing angle, is very telling. Essentially, Boomers being the "gimme-gimme" generation.
The biblical format even extends down to the various scriptural references you see in some bibles, which refer certain texts to other texts found elsewhere in the bible.
For example, the first book is called "The First Book of Apes, Called Kinesis" and talks about the beginning of the universe. The first few verses are:
1 aAt the beginning there was nothing but a big bball of gases.
2 For a long time it just sat there in the cnothingness, getting hotter and hotter.
3 dThen it eexploded.
If you look up reference "e" (adjacent to the word "exploded"), that takes you to the Book of the VIP Al, chapter 2, verse 11, which says "KA-B-O-O-O-OM!"
There are the Books of Greeks, Yanks, Frogs, Ruskies, Spics, etc., all of which describe the history of the world from the perspective of those once "chosen" nations.
Chapter 2 of The Book of Bloody Brits reads:
1 From the very beginning, the Brit culture was shaped by two peculiar preoccupations, these being,
2 cThe overriding importance of personal grooming,
3 And the absolute necessity of doing everything the hard way.
4 dEven when first discovered by Caesar,
5 Who looked under a lot of rocks he should have left alone,
6 The original Britons, as they called themselves then, were covered from head to toe in blue paint,
7 Which they thought natty,
8 And wasn't the last time they were dead wrong about something.
9 Caesar should have known better than to conquer the Britons,
10 eWho lived contrary to Roman philosophy, which holds that if a thing isn't easy, it isn't worth doing.
11 But Caesar didn't always follow the rules,
12 As we have seen,
13 fAnd conveniently died before the rest of the world discovered his mistake.
Anybody interested in reading this book doesn't have to buy it. It's actually now available online free and, more than that, it's an actual electronic book complete with all links intact which doesn't require downloading to read:
theboomerbible.com
en.wikipedia.org
