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The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death. By Gene Weingerten Foreword by Dave Barry Illustrated by Bob Staake Simon & Schuster 1998 ISBN 10: 0684852802   Return To All Books     Behind The Pages With Bob: "Gene and I had worked together for years putting out The Washington Post's weekly Style Invitational contest, so when he asked me to illustrate his book I said yes because I feared he might kill me -- or fire me. I had very little creative input into these black and white illustrations. It was more a case where Gene would say 'you should draw Yogo Bear with a giant pot belly' or 'you need to draw a Valentine's Day card with a heart on the cover -- but the heart should look anatomically perfect with valives, arteries, and bulging veins' or 'do you think you could draw a Rorschach ink blot that looks like a man having sex with a sheep?' Of course none of these drawings were a problem because, after all, I am a professional." -- Bob Staake Summary: The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life, And Death, is to fear of death what the Holy Bible is to the fear for one's soul: terrifying, humbling, and, in a strange sort of way, comforting.   Sample image from book (above)   Booklist: If even paranoids have real enemies, Washington Post "Sunday Style" editor Weingarten humorously demands respect for his own minor mental derangement. Before heading to Washington D. C., Weingarten ran the Miami Herald's Sunday magazine. Miami colleague Dave Barry's foreword reveals some stylistic similarities: like Barry, Weingarten takes an ordinary--or only slightly odd--situation and pushes it to its limit. There's a fair amount of true medical information scattered amid satire, sidebars, and tongue-in-cheek charts in chapters on hypochondria, the hypochondriac's relationship with physicians, and a range of behaviors, symptoms, and conditions (e.g., headaches, hiccups, heart disease, tumors, ulcers, obesity, smoking, alcoholism, pregnancy, excretion, and "things that can take out an eye"). Weingarten proudly claims a lifetime of hypochondria, a disease abruptly cured several years ago when he was diagnosed with hepatitis C: what doctors call "the next epidemic." So perhaps Weingarten is a posthypochondriac who recalls the pleasures of imaginary illnesses while coping with all-too-real health problems.   Get Your Book Signed By Bob

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