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| If reviews don't persuade you, only prizes and parades, then we're happy to report that "Cockeyed" was shortlisted for the 2007 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, a national award for the funniest book of the year. Now you can surf ahead and skip the reviews below. "To
call Ryan Knighton just another one of those dime-a-dozen "blind
Canadian punk writers" is to do him a disservice. He's much
more than that. Knighton is a man with a bad, bad attitude. But he's
also got the guts and the style to back it up. That he can't see
is irrelevant. In this age of the Professional Victim, with so many
authors asking readers to shed a heartfelt tear over their bad mommies
and stubbed toes, here comes Knighton with a white cane, a wicked
smile and a howling soundtrack, who's written a book in which he
laughs at himself, laughs at the world, sheds the occasional tear,
and rolls with it. Sure it's a tragedy *but that's why you'll be
laughing, too, see? So don't just stand there like a jackass* buy
the damn thing and shut up. Better still, look just to the right
of this book on the shelf, there. See that other book? That's a pretty
good one, too. Hey *why not buy both? Then shut up." See the July 10, 2006 issue of People Magazine, in which Cockeyed was declared one of the summer's hottest reads.
Click the links below to read some of Ryan's recent newspaper, magazine,
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