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The Darwin Awards: The Official Darwin Awards: 180 Bizarre True Stories of How Dumb Humans Have Met Their Maker (Paperback)

by Wendy Northcutt (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Orion; New Ed edition (27 Sep 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752844512
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752844510
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,904 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Darwin Awards is the legendary web site which commemorates the remains of people who have improved our gene pool by killing themselves in really stupid ways! Practically everyone who is on the net has received a Darwin story in their e-mail at one time or another. It is one of those legendary web sites which has become part of the fabric of being on-line. Started in 1993 by biologist Wendy Northcutt she set out to collect together and authenticate stories of individuals around the world who, through their stupidity, have removed themselves from the gene pool. These are the people for whom warnings such as "coffee is hot" and "this superman cape does not enable the wearer to fly" were made ...


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Wendy Northcutt is the bestselling author of The Darwin Awards. She majored in Molecular Biology at UC Berkeley, and worked in biological research. She manages the Darwin Awards website in her spare time and now works as an internet consultant.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Bl**dy brilliant!, 19 Jul 2004
I just looked at the American Amazon site for this book, where the average review gives it 2 stars. Er.... enough said.

OK, the whole premise is a bit macabre - celebrating those who improved the human gene pool by killing themselves. But please, give the book a chance and read it. I can assure you, the people it describes are NOT the ones who should reproduce. And it is DAMN funny!

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Darwinian Legends...of a different sort, 10 Dec 2003
By Mr. T. Richards (Paderborn, Germany) - See all my reviews
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180 stories, nearly all of which are hysterical, if not a little macabre. The book contains stories which don't ALL contain deaths, but there are some remarkably silly things that happen in this world - perfectly shown by the short stories within the book's covers.

Some truly magnificent moments have occured in the past 10 years, including urban legends (as they're called in the book) like the man who attached a JATO unit (HIGHLY explosive) to his car in the effort of getting somewhere in great haste.

Some of the stories are seemingly gruesome, and I'm not going to go into these - they're bad enough without having to tell them over again!

All in all, this book is brilliant. Each of the stories is written in a casual manner, normally with a suitable witty sentence to end each "disaster" (although the reader's meant to look on it differently).

This is essential to any reader collecting funny short stories, aswell as someone who needs a break from large, 1000+ page novels. The book itself isn't enough to keep you rivetted for days on end of solid reading - it's more for the casual reader in search of a good laugh, and I enjoyed every minute of it.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious, but also a warning to the creative/adventurous, 23 Sep 2002
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If ever you needed proof that evolution is true and real, this is it. The survival of the fittest likewise means the death of the least fit, or in this case, the most stupid. If you're not familiar with the concept of Darwin Awards, then surf on over to their site, then buy the book. Hilarious accounts, yet dead serious!
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