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There is no one better than a dentist to… tell dentist jokes! Among many never-heard-before jokes, the book presents the most traditional jokes told in a different and idyllic style. Distinct from the common books of funny jokes, in which they are simply told one by one, this book outstands in its format, providing the reader a favorable outcome, a tragical ending in a comic and fun way, for every joke, dentist comments with facts from professional experience and satirizing uppermost the answer to the following question: “May it happen?”. A true masterpiece of humor, essential for all the ones that someday woke up and, despite all matters, decided to simply laugh and move on.
The author, responsible for the most controversial books ever published about dentistry in Brazil, presents us with his unique, refined and witty sense of humor. The peculiar way he uses to broach old stories from the dental field turning them into new ones, driven by a whole new context and offering a closer link to the public, is of great hilarity and enriched by all the following add-ons.
Despite having written a book on comic stories, the author considers himself a bad storyteller and believes that, in a future stage of our lives, all we live today will be taken as a joke and, if we dare not to laugh, we would at least end up standing in a higher level of interpretation, able to absorb every episode’s comicality that is braught to us by life on a daily basis, and that we considerar yet such serious things.
The artwork offers direct interaction with all readers who can access the voting panel and vote on their favorite joke as well follow which jokes are in the readers' preference.
Game of differences
This is already your third book about dentists. Do you intend to continue writing about dentistry in your next projects?
At least so far, that was the last one about dentistry. It is said everything that is nice is a trilogy, a triad, and that can be seen even in the religious aspect, by the Holy Trinity. I hope this book closes the “trilogy of the dentist”, leaving my contribution to Dentistry because, after all, I'm a dentist!
It’s impossible to talk about your two previous books without mentioning all the controversy they caused. Does this book follow the same line of the former ones in the sense of triggering heated discussions upon the subject?
I would say that among the three books this is the lightest one. The similarity with the previous ones lies on the aspect that they all belong to the comic genre and also by the number 80, present in all of them. We can say that each book has 80 parts and together as a trilogy they offer 240 nudges on dentistry for the general public, always with glimpses of satire and irony.
Sarcasm and irony are found out all along with your previous two books. Are they also present in this one, the same way? If so, why?
One of the smartest and subtlest forms of humor is irony. This has nothing to do with that
boring humor when we need to explain step by step that A + B equals C. True humor does not need to be explained, it is simply perceived and understood. Humor is released subtly, and only open-minded people are able to notice it. I was not surprised by the fact that many people thought my first two books were a work against dentistry. These are narrow-minded people, unable to distinguish whether you’re playing or talking seriously. For them, everything is a reason to fight and fuel for struggle. Well, if they prefer to spend their lives struggling with empty causes and driven amid ideas that they barely understand, screw them... I'd rather spend mine laughing over it.
About this book, does it bring unheard jokes or already known ones? What makes it different from others, although I don’t know of any similar books on dentists?
You could say that all the jokes from the book are somehow new. Most of them had never existed, they were entirely made up, while others were adapted from a different context, inspiring a new insight to the reader. The use of colloquial language along the book turns its reading process closer to spoken language, which provides a greater connection between the reader and the book’s theme, matching with the picked subject, which is jokes. Try out telling a joke with scholar language just to see the disaster that will set out! [laughs]
Although your two previous books had been published and spread by a commercial publisher with market renown, you chose to publish this one independently. Why?
In my two previous books, I just handed the original work to the publisher. I saught nothing anymore. A few weeks later, as if by magic, the books were ready in my hands. I didn’t need to worry about disclosure and distribution; indeed, I haven’t even got to know all those steps, the publisher did everything. This time I decided to take part in the process, follow every step involved, even for a better understanding of myself. Together with some fellow workers, we worked on the layout of the book, page by page. We required the ISBN, the Cataloguing Card, and this was what made us learn deeply about the publishing issues. During the cover's creation was when we realized that a small detail may undermine all the work. We spent several hours just to get the best angle for shooting.
This cover looks really great: an absolute unique photo well embedded in the context of the book. Tell us a little bit more about this work.
Look, it was hard! First, we had to bring together the models that would participate in the photo, Thomas and Renata, and the photographer, me, all to the same day and time. The schedules would never meet, Renata was always busy. Finally, we made it. What seemed a quick thing took us almost an entire afternoon. There were too many variables for us to choose the best set. We tried different angles, different heights for the shooting and many locations. Sometimes the lighting was not good enough, others someone was not truly immersed, and sometimes we'd just start out laughing. We did not want a static photo, we wanted to bring movement to it, sharing the feeling that people were moving, and perhaps this was our biggest difficulty. We took dozens of photos, always trying to improve in the following shootings. Finally, more work came. Then we had to properly crop the picture, in the required proportions for the book’s cover, and choose which typeface would be used for the title text. That made us change the cover a lot of times because we were never satisfied with the typeface used. We wanted a thick one, but even using bold on some attempts we were not reaching the desired effect. For anyone who sees the final result, it looks like a simple task, but for those involved, it was not simple at all.
And in your coming books, do you intend to publish them through a commercial publisher or make use of independent publishing, since you already have experience with it?
I have no experience. It was only one book, however, I could get into touch with the process. The problem of commercial publishers is that it takes too long for them to analyze the originals and to give an answer to the author. It takes several months of waiting and, in many cases, they do not even bother to send an answer. The advantage is high quality to the final product and advertising work, nationwide. Self-publishing has the advantage of non-interfering in the author's text, with no unwanted modifications, because in case that happens, it can change the message the author is trying to pass; for authors who work with linking of ideas, for example, subtly presenting an idea in the beginning of the book, then discussing it in the middle of it, still subtly, to reach the end and provide the same information as if it were the first time the reader was seeing it, for a better comprehension of the subject. The proofreaders, hired by commercial publishers, are unaware of this process and sometimes destroy the magic by modifying the author’s text or by removing one single word.
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