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The Darwin Awards II - Wendy Northcutt

Description: ISBN 0452284015 / Author: Wendy Northcutt / Genre: Humour / These tales of trial and error, verified by the author and endorsed by ... more

The Darwin Awards II - Wendy Northcutt ... website readers, illustrate the ongoing saga of survival of the fittest in all its selective glory. Including material never published before, and favourite award winners, this book portrays examples of evolution in action.

Newest Review: ... people’s misery in inherently wrong. The book has over 100 deaths in it and it just stops being funny as soon as you think ... more

... of the waste of human life involved. I found the whole thing a cynical exercise of making money from an internet concept. Northcutt has taken information free off the internet, collected it together and palmed it off as her own. She tries to comment that death is not funny, but still wrote the bloody book. Her cynicism seems to know no bounds as the part of the book that really raised my goat was near the end. I could just about agree with writing unfunny stories about generally dim people taking their own lives...more

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The Darwin Awards Boxed Set (1-3) by Wendy Northcutt - Plume Book Pages: 1, Paperback, Plume Books - Books/Subjects/Humour/Essays - ...	£ 33.30	Postage & Packaging: £ 0.00 Availability: refer to shop website
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The Darwin Awards II - Wendy Northcutt: Cynical, Depressing and Not Funny (1158 words)
by samueltyler - written on 19/04/07 (Very useful, 88 readings)
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Darwin is one of the greatest thinkers of all time. During his many years on the planet he was able to muse upon man’s existence and created a foundation that is known to us as the evolution theory. As well as being a great thinker Darwin was also known for being a good man. Therefore, I have to think that the idea of the Darwin Awards would leave him spinning in his grave. The Darwin Awards are an internet prize given out once a year by a community of users to a person who has taken themselves out of the gene pool in the most stupid way. This could be either through death of sterilisation – sounds fun!?! ‘The Darwin Awards 2’ is the second book in the ...

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