The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures

Well, bugger me sideways Tuesday this was hilarious.

The first book in this series "The Book of Heroic Failures" is hilarious, the follow-up, "The Return of Heroic Failures", is hilarious, and this, the third in the series, is hilarious.

Basically, "The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures" covers, like

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its predeccesors, tales of extremely poor attempts at a task, be it parking, bank robbery or concert review, or references to the most boring hobby (collecting brown wrapping paper). Stephen Pile, who also compiled the two previous contributions, has an engaging writing style and an eye for the ludicrous and I was left chortling merrily by reading any random section of the book. Picking a favourite entry is impossible due to the sheer number of tales of heroic failures mentioned within, so opening the book to a random page finds the tale of some would-be bank robbers who rang the bank ahead of time to say they would be arriving shortly and could they have money ready for them. Not suprisingly, the police were also at the bank (the story is a lot funnier when I'm not telling it).

Hugely recommended.

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