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Based on the award-winning 10-million-plus-hit blog 1000 Awesome Things, The Book of Awesome is an international bestselling high five for humanity and a big celebration of life's little moments. Sometimes it's easy to forget the things that make us smile. With a 24/7 news cycle reporting that the polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes are swirling in the seas, wars are heating up around the world, and the job market is in a deep freeze, it's tempting to feel that the world is falling apart. But awesome things are all around us, like: * Popping Bubble Wrap * Wearing underwear just out of the dryer * Fixing electronics by smacking them * Getting called up to the dinner buffet first at a wedding * Watching The Price Is Right when you're home sick * Hitting a bunch of green lights in a row * Waking up and realizing it's Saturday The Book of Awesome reminds us that the best things in life are free (yes, your grandma was right). With laugh-out-loud observations from award-winning comedy writer Neil Pasricha, The Book of Awesome is filled with smile-inducing moments on every page that make you feel like a kid looking at the world for the first time. Read it and you'll remember all the things there are to feel good about. A New York Times Bestseller * USA Today Bestseller * Globe and Mail Bestseller * Toronto Star Bestseller * Vancouver Sun Bestseller * Macleans Bestseller * Winner of the Forest of Reading Award… (more)
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The Book of Awesome is an awesome book--to be read in the bathroom or while
Inter-generational dancing
The other side of the pillow
Fixing electronics by
When you’re right near the end of a book
The sound of ice cubes crackling in a drink
Watching your odometer click over a major milestone
Discovering those little tabs on the side of the aluminum foil box*
Seeing a cop on the side of the road and realizing you’re going the speed limit anyway
Peeling off your wet bathing suit and putting on warm clothes after swimming for a long time
The moment at a restaurant after you see your food coming from the kitchen but before it lands on your table
*and also on the ends of some boxes of plastic wraps -- poke the tab inward to create a lock that keeps the roll in the box no matter how sharply you pull out the wrap; haha, this was a life-changing revelation for me
I enjoyed the concept -- liked the titles but wasn’t as enamored by the write-ups (which tended to draw out the punch line and sometimes veered off-topic). Still, Pasricha seems like a genuinely nice, happy guy, and I just skipped what didn’t appeal and moved on to the next … a practice he’s probably already written up as awesome :)
I reveled in this book - smiling, grinning, laughing out loud,
The Book of Awesome is
The Book of Awesome is not the kind of book you sit down and read from cover to cover – it’s the kind of book you keep in your car or your bathroom to pick up when you only have a few minutes or when you need a smile. It’s the kind of book you buy for someone (a friend or yourself) who needs a pick-me-up. It’s what you pick up when you need a reminder to slow down and enjoy the little things in life. The Book of Awesome is awesome!
Just because I have given it 2 stars does not mean that I hated the book either. Judging by the GR rating system, I have selected "it was ok" and that's
I did take pleasure in a few of the entries such as; "Obtaining the perfect milk to cereal ratio", "sleeping with one leg under the covers and one leg out" and "snow falling on Christmas eve".
About halfway through, I gave up reading Neil's write-ups and just read the subject lines. The write-ups were not really bad per say, they just didn't really add anything to the entry. It kind of felt like a waste of time.
That being said, I still visit the website on occasion. I think it works much better that way.
The Book of Awesome is (wait for it...) awesome! It is chocked full of
The most awesome-possum thing in the book though, is "Remembering What Movie That Guy Is From" - my family and I play our own version on that game every time we get together. I kid you not, when I go to my parents' house tomorrow, something like this will happen at some time during the day:
Dad: Have you been watching that show on HBO?
Me: Which show?
Dad: You know, that one with that guy? The guy with the hair?
Sister Sarah: Oh yeah, that hairy guy that was in that movie with the girl that wore that pink dress. What was his name?
Mom: Oh, do you mean Mark Damon?
Sister Sarah: No, the other guy. And it's Matt Damon, Mom.
You people may think I exaggerate but no, I assure you this is exactly what we sound like! And the worst part - we're probably talking about Jim Carey or Tom Cruise - now how is it that we cannot come up with the name of Tom freakin' Cruise? After exhausting the combined power of all four of our memory banks, I will then pull out my trusty iPhone and check IMDB and it is truly awesome to finally get that name!
Neil Pasricha, with the help of his website 1000awesomethings.com, has come up with a book that makes me feel extremely awesome. Identifying with and laughing out loud as Pasricha described tons of awesome things that could have come straight out of my life story probably makes me an incredibly ordinary person, but I don't care. It's enough for me to know that others of you "Sneak McDonald's and Hide the Evidence," "Celebrate your pet's birthday even though they have no idea what's going on," and get an exquisite thrill "When you didn't play the lottery and your numbers didn't come up." We are all so totally awesome!
The Book of Awesome is a beautiful
For those who might be on the fence about this one, read the website that inspired the book. You won't regret it.
It doesn't need to take a million pages to explain to me that putting chips on my sandwich tastes good. Just get to the point already.
You need one page, max, to explain each topic. If you wanted to write a boring novel about your boring life, then write an actual novel. Don't play it off as some funny ha-ha book when it's not.
I'm glad this book only cost me a dollar from a thrift store. It's not worth the real price and defiantly not worth a sequel. This book is far from AWESOME!
DNF. Not awesome.
When my husband saw the title he told me that
I borrowed this from the library so I had to read it straight through and, honestly, taken in that way, the book becomes repetitive and even annoying. I much prefer the web-site. (Sorry, Neil!)
Read this if: someone gives it to you as a gift and you can dip into it a few pages at a time, now & then. But, everyone, DO visit the web-site. 3½ stars