Rating: Summary: Only Amusing Review: This collection of dumb laws does provide entertainment. Each page is one dumb law, followed by an explanation of it, and the majority of them are funny. However, there are only 101 laws in this book, and in total it takes about 10 minutes to read. Also, it isn't funny enough to the point where you can keep rereading it.The question, then, is whether the book is worth buying. Unless you plan on putting it on your coffee table for party amusement, it really doesn't provide the amount of humor you pay for.
Rating: Summary: A Good Idea That Needs More Work Review: This is a book by two kids. It started off as a school project. The idea is to list laws that seem very strange, dumb or just plain off-the-wall. It could have been a good book but it needs a little more research. Each page has a catchy phrase about some law. The title of the book is one such phrase. There is then some of the text of the law it refers to. Unfortunately, sometimes the blurb is actually the direct opposite of the law given. I found this to be really unforgivable in such a book. Very often I got the idea that the authors just didn't understand the language used in the laws and sometime I felt they never read them in the first place. Still, there are some dumb laws that they did get right. But really, there should have been a lot more attention paid before this ever saw print.
Rating: Summary: A Good Idea That Needs More Work Review: This is a book by two kids. It started off as a school project. The idea is to list laws that seem very strange, dumb or just plain off-the-wall. It could have been a good book but it needs a little more research. Each page has a catchy phrase about some law. The title of the book is one such phrase. There is then some of the text of the law it refers to. Unfortunately, sometimes the blurb is actually the direct opposite of the law given. I found this to be really unforgivable in such a book. Very often I got the idea that the authors just didn't understand the language used in the laws and sometime I felt they never read them in the first place. Still, there are some dumb laws that they did get right. But really, there should have been a lot more attention paid before this ever saw print.
Rating: Summary: Funny! Review: This is a hilarious read! It kept me laughing from page one. This, along with Debbie Farmer's book "Don't Put Lipstick on the Cat!" and Bruce Cameron's "8 Simple Rules" makes a perfect humor package.
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