- Philosophy, Humor, Humor (Nonfiction), Nonfiction
This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they'd had in schoolOutrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors—and born vaudevillians—Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's Weekend Edition.
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Warm, spare, comic and contemporary.
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Thomas Cathcart
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 215
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA, Inc., Penguin Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143113874
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