The Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year. Anyone can be a success,
but it takes real and original genius to foul up big time. These
are the all-time greats, Gods in the field of failure, surreal
artists, who spurn mere drab success ('I'm a winner, Lord Sugar')
to explore the vast, magical, life-enhancing possibilities of
getting it wrong. Any of us could make a mistake, but these great
souls can turn the simplest everyday task into a scene of
jaw-dropping wonder. These are the immortals. Stephen Pile,
President of the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain and author
of the number-one best-seller The Book of Heroic Failures, takes us
on an all-new and mind-bendingly hilarious tour to celebrate the
most spectacular and absurd failures of the last twenty-five years.
Failure is everywhere. There are 235 stories in total spread from
the Outer Hebrides to America, Ireland, Australia, Europe and
Africa. The Syrian entry, for example, holds the world all-comers
record as the driver who got most lost under satnav direction (5000
miles). From the most driving test failures (959), the most
pointless election (in Dakota, in which not even the mayor voted),
the worst robbery (when two different sets of bank robbers struck
simultaneously) and the worst mugger (who left his victim $250
better off), to the holidaying rugby team of fifty-somethings from
Dorchester who, due to a mis-translation, ended up playing the top
team from Romania live on state TV, this is the ultimate book to
make you feel better about yourself and the world around you. The
Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures fails miserably at failing to be a
runaway success amongst funny books.
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