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product_id: 110702433
title: "Lightning Rods"
brand: "new directions"
price: "AED 52"
currency: AED
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 13
category: "Digital Ebook Purchas"
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region: United Arab Emirates
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# Lightning Rods

**Brand:** new directions
**Price:** AED 52
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Lightning Rods by new directions
- **How much does it cost?** AED 52 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Customer Reviews

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    A Modest Proposal for the #MeToo era
  

*by M***. on Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2019*

Like "A Modest Proposal", published just a few years before #MeToo went viral.  Nothing like The Last Samurai (which I loved enough to read four times), but that's okay because this is also very good.  It's fitting that she credits The Producers and "Springtime for Hitler" as inspiration.  I probably won't read this one again, but thinking of certain passages still makes me laugh.

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    You don't really have sex with only the bottom halves of women at work right? You're a good person!
  

*by J***U on Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2012*

This is a brilliant and incredibly sharp satire - all wrapped up in the main character's childishly simplistic sexual fantasies. Again and again, while reading this book, you will shake your head in disbelief. But you'll do so with a smile on your face. The hero is a failed vacuum cleaner salesman who essentially brings his own erotic fan fiction to life. His plan: that women in the workplace can take on extra work as "Lightning rods" - anonymous sex partners for the men in the office to discharge their frustrations and lightning on. In? On? What was I talking about? Oh yeah, having sex with only the bottom half of women. This book is the best kind of feminist humour - the kind that you put down after reading and realize that it slipped a knife into you while you were laughing. And, if you are like me, then you will also be super turned on by what is essentially a parody of male sexual simplicity. You will be reading, and sort of squirming in your seat with arousal, and then you will think "Oh no! I have become what I most detest!" and then you will read a bit more about having sex with the anonymous bottom halves of women, and then you will begin the important task of trying to convince yourself that it is okay to go finish yourself off while thinking about this because you understand the satire and anyway you don't actually have sex with only the bottom halves of women at work right? You're a good person! And so handsome!

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    Satire a plenty
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2019*

The Last Samurai was genius writing. Lightning Rods not so much. I enjoy the shameless skewering of male oppression as much as anyone, but this is like one good snarky joke being told over and over for hundreds of pages.

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