Rating: Summary: Another hilarious--and frightening--volume Review: The latest volume in the Darwin Awards series provides more of the same funny-yet-scary tales of human folly we got in the first two books. As long as evolution remains in action, Wendy Northcutt will have plenty of awards to present and a rich array of source material for this ever-entertaining series. Keep 'em coming, Darwin!
Rating: Summary: Making puddles out of the pool Review: The only space left in your book is the place where the US government has not only shifted its wealth, technology, heavy industry but it also has given China cutting edge nuclear weapons science and top secret data in an attempt to enrich back home political party aspirations with soft and hard money contributions from its most devoted and newly endowed enemy that only wants death to America. It seems short sighted to endanger the entire country, by shifting so much of a nation's security, in order to preside over a broken, betrayed, threatened, unemployed, Spanish speaking and now outgunned nation. Also, if this continues, they will invent communism here in America by making China so rich and American so poor! Certainly the Presidencies, from Carter on, have acted like they are enemy agents working solely for the interests of China and Mexico.
Rating: Summary: Not as good as the first but better than the secound Review: The problem this go round is that people are running out of stupid things to do that still make us laugh. I mean the funny parts of this book are still funny but really how many gun explosions, animal attacks, and just plian stupidity can we take? The problem with this idea is that its just not novel anymore(doesn't mean they aren't funny) Good Idea in this book-I don't know about any of the other guys out there but I got fend up reading Darwin awards and discovering that appently only men do stupid things to get themselves eliminated from the gene pool. Here for the first time there was a section devoted to the stupid things women had done(however I must admiit that nothing in that section could hold a candle to some of the stupid things men have done) My own personal favorite in this installment also happens to be the first entry from way back in the 1870s when a trial lawyer(presumably intellegant) who was attempting to prove his client's innocence demonstrated how the murder victim was holding his gun in such a way that the discharge struck him in the face and killed him. He successfully demonstrated this to the jury. However he forgot to unload the evidence(the gun). Either way he was right.
Rating: Summary: I will aid you soon Review: The stories have gone down in amusement and I suggest you wait until you have sufficent high quality stories before I decide to evolve you lot PS a lot of idiotic deaths are on your way soon (I've got bored of starting wars)
Rating: Summary: Pretty Good! Restroom Reading. Review: These little stories really have my family and friends rolling down the aisle. It's a good conversation starter, as a good Darwin Award often leads to spontaneous "How I Got That Scar" competitions. I highly recommend this book.
Rating: Summary: surviving yourself. Review: This book is a good book to read in that it is humorus to see what people do to them selfs on accident or on purpose this is also a good book to read so that you wont turn out to be any of these people
Rating: Summary: A sincerely funny book Review: This book is as funny as one book can be. It shows us just how unevolved the human race really is. Sometimes after a long day at work I just come home and have to read about someone who had a worse day then me. A truly funny book.
Rating: Summary: Enjoyable Read But Better Similar Books Out There Review: This book is the third in the series and takes a look at human stupidity which either results in the stupid one's demise or at least sterilises them so that they can not reproduce. All entries have previously appeared on the official Darwin Awards website. This book also contains as the second book did, a section where the author has retracted Darwin awards for entries on their website which were not Darwin awards. Following the reasoning behind those decisions if you applied it to most entries in all three books then they would also be rejected so one would think if you are going to do this sort of book you should stand by your decisions no matter how much abuse you cop. Everyone who has died will probably at least have someone who loved them so abuse is something that comes hand in hand with this kind of writing. I just find this chapter's inclusion pointless. The Darwin series of books are not as funny as you might expect them to be but they do have some funny moments. If you are looking for a book to keep you laughing hysterically from cover to cover then look elsewhere. If you are looking for a book with a few laughs then either this or the first book will be sufficient.
Rating: Summary: WOoh Thank God for my good DNA Review: This book is very funny. A great addition to anyone's library. It also makes me very happy i have great genes.. well at least better then these people.
Rating: Summary: Good Book Review: This book really caught my interest quick. The short stories entertained me so much that I read the book in just 2 days. Near the end I started getting a little bored with it, but that's probably only because I was reading it so quickly. I first picked up the book because of the emails that go around with bits of the stories in them, that's what got me interested. I would recommend this book to a friend, but only for entertainament purposes. Overall this was a good book and highly recommended.
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