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Cargando... COMPLETE & UTTER FAILURE (edición 1994)por Neil Steinberg (Autor)
Información de la obraA Complete and Utter Failure: A Celebration of Also-Rans, Runners-Up, Never-Weres & Total Flops por Neil Steinberg
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. From the horrifying Dickensian ritual of the National Spelling Bee, in which 8,999,999 children out of 9,000,000 fail in an excruciatingly public fashion, to failed products like Reddi Bacon and chewable toothpaste, Neil Steinberg joyfully explores the many famous and obscure facets of failure. Complete and Utter Failure is a very smart, very funny look at a universal human experience: crushing, abject, humiliating defeat. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Complete & Utter Failure is an original comic meditation on a universal human experience: crushing, abject, humiliating defeat. Here is a book that will allow you to laugh at yourself, and, more important, laugh at other people." "Neil Steinberg happily explores the many fascinating facets of failure, and writes about them in unique if sometimes twisted ways. Here you will encounter the horrifying Dickensian ritual of the National Spelling Bee, how products like toaster eggs get on the market, the quest for the perfect Shiny New Bike, doomed brainiacs, slightly dim British mountaineers, the poor sap who really invented the telephone, the shocking truth about Isaac Newton, and many other interesting failures, famous and obscure. Along the way, Steinberg ruminates about his own myriad miscues and disappointments, beginning with his inability to perform a magic trick at age four (he blames Captain Kangaroo)." "Complete & Utter Failure is a wonderfully literate, witty book that issues a ringing message for our time: If at first you don't succeed... have a scotch and forget about it."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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