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The Darwin Awards 5: Next Evolution (2008)

by Wendy Northcutt(Favorite Author)
3.52 of 5 Votes: 3
ISBN
1593163975 (ISBN13: 9781593163976)
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English
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Listen & Live Audio, Inc.
series
Darwin Awards
review 1: After about 30 minutes of listening to this audiobook, I had enough. I was expecting huge laughs but what I found myself doing was the occasional smirk and a lot of head shaking. There is only so much of laughing at someone else' stupidity before you realize it's actually not that funny anymore especially when their own stupidity kills them. If anything, this book is a good reminder about how we need to think before we act and then walk away, think again and then back to the task at end. It's also a good reminder never to mix drugs or alcohol while operating a vehicle, heavy machinery or eating poisonous fungi.
review 2: The ever-expanding panorama of people with vehicles, explosives and a conspicuous lack of critical thinking skills. Things are not going t
... moreo end well when the phrases "so, we were in the basement making a pipe bomb," "a case of beer went into the planning," "the snake is friendly, nothing will happen" or "let's pour plutonium down a floor drain, no one will notice" are invoked. Oh, and don't try to trim your hedges using a lawnmower held horizontally. Or suck up live wasps with a ShopVac. less
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lacinda5
Classic darwinism, not much else can be said as it is like any other Darwin Award book out there.
bookworm
Better than the previous Darwin Awards books because of the organization and extra tidbits.
nikki
I disagree with her views on evolution, but the stories are hilarious and bizarre.
danahwebby
Too Good...I just can't believe people can be sooooo stupid...
jam
Morbidly funny.
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