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Things Go Wrong For Me (when Life Hands You Lemons, Add Vodka) (2012)

by Rodney Lacroix(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0982772025 (ISBN13: 9780982772027)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

RCG Publishing

review 1: I tried my best and continued to read on hoping to find some redemeening qualities in this book. I never did. The reviews sounded good and I was looking forward to a fun read. However, all I could think was how selfish & unappreciative this man was for all he's been given and what an ass he is to brag about kids being terrible (including his own) and how his favorite thing in life is to lie to them & hopes his son gets a "hot" therapist later in life when he needs one. He's simply a jerk who never has grown up nor had anything bad truly happen to him in his life. If he considers these crappy stories a bad childhood, he REALLY needs to get out and talk to people & his parents did a great job of protecting him. Stop your whinning, grow up and get a pair! I took the bus acro... moress town at the age of 6 & walked on my own! I also had a lot more severe crap go on than be fat and have issues in the snow dude & I have more gonads than you!!!
review 2: Things Go Wrong For Me… details Rodney’s unfortunate mishaps in life. From his childhood, through marriage, divorce, dating and a vasectomy. Described in pictures and words this is a humour book with a difference.Things Go Wrong For Me… is an amalgamation of Rodney’s blog posts put into book form and I expect his long-term readers will be familiar with most or all of them. This book is pretty funny, very clearly Rodney does not take himself seriously. At all. He has an engaging voice and describes his embarrassing situations with verve. And very bluntly with down-to-earth language.It is short, approaching 30,000 words, but is padded out (not in a negative way) by a plethora of drawings, diagrams, photo’s and text boxes to illustrate Rodney’s off the wall thinking, like his ‘Cyndi Loppers’, Lacroix’s idea for an improved tree trimming experience . It’s broadly broken into four sections – fat childhood, parenting crap, dating disasters, and the vasectomy diaries.I particularly enjoyed the toboggan episode, the dating section, and a series of ‘draw somethings.’Very funny in parts, but not for me drop down hilarious. However, humour is a relative thing. I’m sure many people would spend most of the book laughing out loud. Well worth a look. less

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